Showing posts with label ArchBang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ArchBang. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

ArchBang Dead, Long Live Fedora


So just moments after the last post, I realized that the only iso of Archbang that I had was actually from early 2012. Why does that matter, you ask? Well because Arch changed their basic structure during ArchHell, the name I am giving the update in question. After hours of attempting to update the system, I said to hell with all of this and moved back to a distro I knew would work.

So after another hour and downloading and installing Fedora Core 17 XFCE spin, I was back at a usable desktop. It took a while later before I had all of the post-install stuff completed. Don't listen to what they tell you, Fedora is not ready out of the box.

So ArchHell was avoided and I am back to Fedora. I still have a couple of little issues with PlayOnLinux and getting my Dropbox symlinks to act properly, but those are little things that are not preventing me from working and playing as I like to do.

Now for some Legend of Grimrock and Temple of Elemental Evil from gog.com!

Friday, August 31, 2012

UbuntuStudio Died...

So in a fit of exasperated rage I replaced UbuntuStudio with ArchBang. We had a power outage here that completely fried Ubuntu. How you ask? I have no fucking clue. While loading the kernel during boot, the system would freeze, no TTY, no nothing. After letting it sit for a bit, to calm me down more than anything else, I tried again. Same results. So that was it.

ArchBang is simple so far and, being a minimalist, I like it. It is going to take some time to get eberything set back up and re-learn Arch thoguh.