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Just to share my respect, thanks guys

Long time Arch user, annoyed by systemd, even spend few years on FreeBSD to avoid it, went back to Arch but again annoyed by systemd, even started looking into Devuan or such to regain control. Then I found Artix and just tried it in VM. Beautiful installer, extremely sensible defaults, most choices that I would do manually anyway. This is the work of pure beauty so I wanted to congratulate.

I know my way with manual installation but I would always choose minimal sensible working setup that I can trim as needed, not the other way around. Init that I control, no the other way around. Joy and respect for the beauty you created. Thanks.

Re: Just to share my respect, thanks guys

Reply #1 –
To wrap my initial impressions, since last post in this thread I converted my main daily driver machine to Artix with openrc (it was arch before that), everything is super smooth and openrc is pure joy to use. Installer was surprisingly good, overwriting Arch partition, perfectly updating /boot/efi and not killing anything else. My machine is once again behaving like unix and not like some windows abomination. Slowly cooked frog, I almost forgot how terminal spawned processes should behave on proper unix. Joy.

I went with artix-xfce-openrc iso, tried xfce but nah not for me, killed lightdm from default, then went with my usual dwm and startx/.xinitrc setup. This was many times faster and smoother than installing arch manually.

List of arch packages I had to pull, in case you are wondering what to build bot next:
claws-mail
compface
duf
exa
khal
libetpan
libvdpau-va-gl
mpc
ncmpc
python-click-log
python-icalendar
vifm
xorg-xmag
otf-cascadia-code

Claws is just for backup, I am using mbsync/msmtp/mutt as a main mail handler. vifm is a must for me, being my default file manager. Exa and duf are nice but not crucial. mpc and ncmcp are pretty important to me since I use mpd to play music. khal is pretty useful to output calendar in conky. But I am happy if everything stays like this since I don't really need many packages from arch and can pull them in any way I want.

Am I now Artixist? Artixero? Artixer?

Re: Just to share my respect, thanks guys

Reply #2 –
UPDATE:

I recently have reinstalled Artix Linux as I have experienced some problems in updating due to the pollution of having in the time loaded too many packages from  Arch Linux repositories and having had many problems on each major updates due to the "not in sync" versions of packages between Arch Linux and Artix Linux.

I have narrowed down to install "manually" with:

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sudo pacman -U

some packages to have a working environment for my daily use, mostly are to have FreeCAD installed froam an external and dedicated repository:

- opencascade > freeimage > jxrlib
- med-openmpi (community) > hdf5-openmpi
- python-pivy > soqt > coin
- libspnav


See maybe:

https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,5888.0.html


Regards

Carlo D.