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Showing posts with label arch. Show all posts

Phasing out Arch Linux

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Arch Linux is great at what it does.. always chasing that elusive bleeding edge and providing no other choices to users. I don't want either of that, and I am now phasing out arch from my stacks.
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wpa_gui

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how did i not discover this earlier :? such an efficient tool! no loitering binary/cryptic config files all over the system, or bloatware dependencies like networkmanager.
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my philosphy

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as i experience more in life and (hopefully) become wiser by experience, i find that i am leaning towards a particular stance, which seems to be getting stronger with time. i have arrived at this independently, but i also realise that others have trodden this path before (and long before and much more than) me. i find my philosophy epitomised by
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