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2013-01-25 11:47 31003389 Anonymous (A4wx6.jpg 1920x1080 406kB)
What does /g/ think of ArchBang? http://archbang.org/

0 min later 31003413 Anonymous
It sounds like a good concept, but it also sounds like something that would just flop. I've never really used it, but I don't see why anybody would use this over normal arch, or better yet, why anybody would use arch at all.

1 min later 31003438 Anonymous
>>31003413 It's nice for the same reason #! is nice. Lazy installs.

4 min later 31003522 Anonymous
i tried it maybe a year ago. it had broken dependencies out of the box. installing some easy mode Arch with an installed and help script defeats the purpose of using Arch.

7 min later 31003587 Anonymous
Does it use Debian repository's?

8 min later 31003605 Anonymous
>openbox >no workspaces >lel

8 min later 31003612 Anonymous
>>31003587 You're a special kind of retarded.

9 min later 31003625 Anonymous
>>31003522 but i admire the devs hard work. >>31003587 r u retarded?

9 min later 31003633 Anonymous
>>31003605 Open box has workspaces...

10 min later 31003653 Anonymous
>>31003633 nope

12 min later 31003709 Anonymous
>>31003653 ITT: the retarded.

13 min later 31003730 Anonymous
troll thread

14 min later 31003734 Anonymous
I actually recommend the current release as a first distro for people when they are getting into *nix over CrunchBang, since it comes with support for the AUR. All ArchBang is - messy Arch for retards, but messy Arch is better than starting with Ubuntu or something else. With Arch you have pacman, AUR, and ABS. However, in my experience, ArchBang releases fail to update to the current version of packages after you sync repos, and their release images are usually broken after one major update (which, for Arch, doesn't take that long). It is something I would take advantage of if you are completely retarded and can't install Arch (yet) and are new to *nix and don't want to use apt, but I only would urge newbies to check out ArchBang because of how awful and unusable it usually is. Take that for what you will. Overall I'd give the distro a 5/10 as far as preconfigured distros go. If you actually know any *nix you should just install Gentoo, Arch, FreeBSD, crux, etc. Gentoo user btw.

22 min later 31003926 Anonymous
>>31003734 This post is why it will never be the year of Linux on the Desktop.

29 min later 31004106 Anonymous
>>31003926 Linux is a kernel.

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