#ARCH HIBERNATE TUTORIAL HOW TO#
#ARCH HIBERNATE TUTORIAL INSTALL#
#ARCH HIBERNATE TUTORIAL UPGRADE#
#ARCH HIBERNATE TUTORIAL FULL#

On a system I built which has only what I want on it & nothing more, & is also incredibly light & exactly as feature full as I have chosen it to be.

That's less than a minute a month of forced maintenance to repair Arch, which isn't bad considering I have probably done 300 full Arch system upgrades in that period of time. So in practical terms I've been up for less than 10 minutes of computer work to get me out of trouble I had upgraded into, in a period pushing 11 months.

#ARCH HIBERNATE TUTORIAL UPGRADE#

An upgrade that I do usually once per day. Just a trouble free upgrade of Ubuntu every 6 months takes a whole lot more time than the very rare < 5 minutes spent to backtrack a pacman or yaourt -Syu -aur which is a full Arch system upgrade. (Don't get me wrong, I think Ubuntu is great.) I always had much more trouble, & it was always vastly more time consuming, every 6 months, when I used the wonderful Ubuntu. That's right twice in 10 months! :lolflag: Upgrade, downgrade, upgrade, downgrade.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH HHH!!!!!!! Here is a link to a quick how-to on downgrading packages in Arch, it is essential knowledge for all users of Arch: After which you can check out the Arch forum & find out what is going on & take appropriate action.

#ARCH HIBERNATE TUTORIAL HOW TO#

The first time taught me how to downgrade packages, which very quickly & easily brings you back to where you were before the trouble. In over 10 months of using Arch I have twice upgraded into trouble. Some people consider the rolling release system to be a draw back, they think that it promotes instability in the Arch system. This is due to the rolling release upgrade system that Arch uses. This coupled with the fact that you don't have to do a reinstall unless you have a drive failure, but always have the latest versions of whatever you are using just continues to allow the comfort of your Arch system to grow. What happens as you use Arch, due to its way of only having what you installed available, your Arch becomes the most perfect fit possible for you.Īs time goes by & you become more familiar with how Arch works, this only goes to increase the intimacy of the relationship. )įollowing is a link to an introduction to Arch that is on our new Other OS Talk forum, which is my way of attracting more users.Īlso, there are quite a few very knowledgeable Arch users registered here, so it is a good place to get help: Though a word of caution, if you go to the Arch Wiki & ask questions that everyone knows are very easily answered by searching the Arch Wiki, you may not get the same kind of considerate patience that you will find in the Ubuntu Absolute Beginners Talk. If not the Beginners Guide is supplied on the installation CD & can be referenced in a v/c.Īs already stated in this thread, the Arch Wiki contains superb documentation & the Arch Forum is also a great resource. Ideally it is great if you have a 2nd machine connected to the internet for reference purposes. In this process you start to learn about the Arch package management system, which is brilliant.

#ARCH HIBERNATE TUTORIAL INSTALL#

Providing that you don't have a wireless internet problem or some other strange hardware related obstruction, the Arch install is not a long laborious process.įor a first install it would be good to set aside a day, during which you can install Arch get your sound set up, X, graphics drivers, a DE or WM & add whatever other app's you like to use. To install Arch it is required that the new user follow the Beginners Guide (), to the letter, or they are going to land in trouble. This simplicity makes Arch so much easier to maintain also. Really, the only way to find out whether Arch is for you is to try it.Īlong the path of setting up Arch, the new user is introduced to how it works, which due to the use of the BSD style init (), is a much simpler system than the other Linux distro's use.

Arch hibernate tutorial