Vacation, day 3

[eevee]

I woke up a few times overnight and was finally dragged out of bed at the inhumane hour of 8 so our new windows could be installed. Also, we got new windows. Triple-paned and etched glass and generally gorgeous, especially compared to the single-pane aluminum garbage we had before

Comments

[toksyuryel]

I've been using Gentoo for a few years now, haven't ever seen a compelling reason to try something else; while I've heard people talk about Arch, it always sounded to me as though it was "like Gentoo, except worse" and this only reinforces that opinion. I do hope no one is doing stage1 installs anymore, seeing as they are rather pointless when you can just do a stage3 and emerge -e the whole thing for the same effect. They aren't even supported anymore, haven't been for years.

[eevee]

I'd rather use this over Gentoo, by far. I don't have to wait years for things to compile, and I don't have to worry about fucking with USE flags and waiting to see what horrible consequences that has. I doubt I'll ever use Gentoo again.

I actually thought installing from stage1 back in the day was fun and informative, and I was sad when it stopped being supported. :(

[eagle_bird]

can you post html for that ad; I'll plug it in my journals too

[magikos]

> My biggest disappointment so far is that there's not even a third-party binary build of Firefox 4 available.

Yes there is; i installed it just a few days ago. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38753. That's a PKGBUILD that will download the binaries directly from Mozilla and turn them into a beautiful .pkg.tar.xz. So it's more like a first-party build. (Or a second-party build? How does that work exactly.)

> nor gdm (which effectively starts GNOME, and without which GNOME is useless)

GNOME does not require gdm. GNOME can be started with startx or xinit like any other window manager/session manager. In fact, i used startx for a good month or so until the novelty wore off and i installed xdm.