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Ya beaucoup de trucs qui commencent par K !

Point positif : je viens de retrouver Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Bon, je viens d'installer Arch, c'est sympa et moins lourd qu'unbuntu.

Par contre, j'ai un ***** de beep de ***** que j'arrive pas dégager, a part le mettre en sourdine dans le gestionnaire audio qui d'ailleur garde pas la conf

Une idée ?

Tu le mute dans ton panneau alsa puis tu tapes en root "alsactl store" pour qu'il garde ta config

lurke les fichiers message.log et kernel je crois

dmesg | grep panic ?

tiens d'ailleurs y'a un truc que j'aime bien moi avec arch c'est de faire en sorte que pacman devienne un vrai pacman !

Add the line ILoveCandy in you pacman.conf after the [options] line.

Han je kiff

So, I have made it my mission to try a new distro every month, and see if I can make the switch. Hopefully, I will succeed in the end, and then I'll post in that famous good bye thread on Arch BBS.
Ubuntu: I'm just a human, damnit!

As most of you probably suspect, I'm just a human being, like the rest of you. So, when I saw that famous slogan 'Linux for human beings', I thought it would be an ideal candidate for this month.

Let's get started.
Website

To see if it's anything close to what I want, I first checked out their website. I typed in www.ubuntu.org. Wait. What's this?!

On the initiative of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks - UBUNTU, we the undersigned wish to express our deep concern and to voice our most forceful protest at having reached this long foreseen and extremely grave situation in such a critical affair as feeding the world's inhabitants.

So I guess the rumors that the latest release was a terrible mistake seems to check out... Oh! Oh, oh, oh! Wrong website. The correct site is that way. Okay, that's more like it.

Now, let's get that ISO. Hm... Not just yet! They have multiple editions?! So, you can't do everything with just one CD? There's this 'desktop' edition, and a 'server' edition. I have both on my home network, so what do I do... well, I'll start with desktop.
First boot

The fancy GRUB menu was the first bad experience I had with Ubuntu. Check this out: 'Safe graphics mode'. It's just an option, not the default setting. So,are these guys telling me I should start in 'Unsafe graphics mode'? Hell no!

And what's this? Try Ubuntu without changing my PC? So, if it's not gonna change anything in my PC, it probably doesn't load into RAM? Because I'm pretty sure it needs to modify the contetnts of my memory in order to run. Or it's some African voodoo magic?

"Ok, be brave, Fox, you can do it", I tell myself, and push on.

Sure enough, it boots just fine. But... it won't tell me what it is doing while booting. I pressed Esc a few times, but I couldn't escape the feeling that the system is hiding something. Then it crashed, and I couldn't see what was going on. So I rebooted hoping it would do better. It did, eventually.

It's a live environment, and I see a locked folder sitting there with 'Examples' written below. I don't touch locked stuff, though, so if someone is good with lockpicks, please tell me what's inside.

Now, let's install it.
Installation

The installer is, well, graphical. It tells me a lot about Ubuntu. It tells me I'd probably be using the rodent a lot. Not my sport, chasing icons on the screen. And I didn't get to edit any config files. I was starting to suspect something very strange was going on. You know that feeling you might discover a dead person's decayed body in a neighbour's backyard, but you're too afraid to look, and you're not really sure so you can't dial 911? Well, I don't, but I imagine it would feel something like what I felt when I was looking at that installer.

So, with the installation finished, I was ready to start using Ubuntu... and see if there's a dead man on the desktop.

After the reboot, I saw the dead man. Well, not really, but something like a half-dead crane... Ok, it's not half-dead, but it did feel a bit odd. Don't tell me I need to appreciate art in order to use Ubuntu!
Using Ubuntu

Ubuntu did come with vim, but pretty much everything else was just bloat in my eyes. Now my idea of customizing my Arch box is to add stuff I need, not remove bloat. But in Ubuntu, I actually had to remove something like 500M of packages to make things look more like home. (As of this writing, I'm still unaware of any bloat-free editions of Ubuntu.)

So, with GNOME and most of the preinstalled stuff gone, I was ready to start installing stuff. I still don't exactly know how many packages were preinstalled, but I hoped I had gotten rid of most of them. I installed the awesome window manager, and some other tools I needed, and started hacking on config files.

Most of the stuff I installed was prehistoric by my standards, but I can live with that. Remember we used to live without cell phones a decade or so ago?

Then I remembered I needed to see what daemons were running.

Well, space is limited, folks, so let's skip the next 12 hours... straight to the bounce.
The bounce

I got bounced, and am back on Arch... Well, I guess I'm not geek enough to use Ubuntu. It's too darn complicated, and most of the stuff I do in Arch were painful to do on this distro for humans. I guess humanity must be changing. One click too many, and rc.X stuff is like a jungle. The apt family of tools is something I wouldn't touch with a six-foot pole, and what's the deal with that installer? Won't let me get anywhere near my time zone unless I moved the mouse with surgical precision.

So, I'm still on Arch. And the bounce factor for Ubuntu? 8.5 out of 10. It can be used, but only if you're prepared for the ultimate pain during the initial setup period.

Tu vas finir packager, spa mal comme entrée dans l'open source §§