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fastfret79

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From: Kent, UK

Registered: 2010-02-01

Posts: 24

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What's your Arch like?

As we all know, the only stuff you have to install in Arch is the base system - anything else is your choice. So what have you got: full-featured DE, just a lightweight standalone WM or maybe even completely X-less?

Mine is a bit of a miss-match of lightweight and heavyweight. The lightweight being Awesome with lots of CLI based apps such as Alpine email, Canto RSS, MPD + NCMPCPP. But heavyweight because I want PVR functionality so I have MythTV running, which also means MySQL. Since I prefer the MythWeb interface for the TV Guide and to schedule recordings, I run a full LAMP setup!

So what's your setup like?

phar

Arch Esquire

From: Manchester

Registered: 2010-02-24

Posts: 4

Re: What's your Arch like?

I have a netbook and Desktop both running Arch.

The netbook is an Advent 4211c, which is a clone of the MSI Wind repackaged by Advent. On the netbook I run Arch+KDEMod, and I use it for day to day university & work stuff. Applications include Openoffice, Thunderbird, Firefox, but also OpenVPN and R for work related stuff.

The Desktop is a Dell Optiplex SX280 with a P4 and 256MB of RAM (I can hear you laughing!) but it's just enough, as I mostly use it for accessing music and movies via SSH when away from home/at work. It runs Arch+Openbox and applications of note include the LAMP 'suite', SSHD and OpenVPN. Oh and of course Screen. I love Screen.

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d2ogch3n

Arch Esquire

From: /dev/urandom

Registered: 2010-03-04

Posts: 3

Re: What's your Arch like?

I run Arch on an old Dell D800 laptop I inherited. The person I got it from said it was now unusable groaning under the weight of XP. It now runs very responsively under Arch .
My set-up is fairly minimal as I like spending time on the console using vim, irssi, elinks, mutt, moc, mplayer and finch. I do have  Awesome WM, Pcmanfm-mod, Chromium, GUI apps too.
I do have 1GB of ram on this machine - a failed attempt from the previous owner to breathe some life into Windows (lol) - htop though usually shows it using around 150MB when running everything, gotta love Linux.

ninian

Arch Esquire

From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-03-04

Posts: 4

Re: What's your Arch like?

Numerous family desktops (mostly HP and Compaqs, RAM from 192MB upwards), HP and Dell laptops and Asus Eee PCs all running Arch + Openbox, with fbpanel, dmenu, emelfm2 and wicd as the main extra components. Plus all the usual Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice applications, etc.

Update @09/04/10: Tending more to standardise on Awesome WM (using its systray), and Worker rather than EmelFM2 since the latter still tends to crash a bit.

Last edited by ninian (2010-04-09 15:23:55)

SiC

Arch Esquire

Registered: 2010-03-04

Posts: 4

Re: What's your Arch like?

I run a 64bit desktop, running gnome and compiz, I quite like gnome, and tiling WMs don't really appeal to me, resources aren't a problem, so never bothered with openbox etc.  I did use fluxbox for a long time and blackbox before that, but a full DE is just a bit easier to use.

The laptop runs a full Gnome DE too.  My SO has taken to using the netbook and runs KDE on it.  Apologies if I often post from windows, I tend to game a bit in the evenings and I've found newer games don't run too reliably under wine.

Tata for now

gazj

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From: /home/gazj -> /uk/cambs

Registered: 2010-03-05

Posts: 2

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Re: What's your Arch like?

I run arch x86 on a pentium 4 2.60Ghz pc with 1GB of ram.

My arch install includes

WM = i3
Term = urxvt
Music = mpd+ncmpc
Browser = firefox / vimperator
File browser = cli/bash
Mail = Mutt
Images = Imagemagick
Word = Antiword
Burning = bashburn
Sysinfo = Conky-cli
Runbox = dmenu
Automount = skvm (aur)

Last edited by gazj (2010-03-05 21:54:33)

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Duncan Snowden

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From: Glasgow

Registered: 2010-03-30

Posts: 4

Re: What's your Arch like?

Openbox, no DM, ROX-Filer and Firefox on both my desktop and netbook, but with a lot more keyboard controls set up on the latter. Conky, stalonetray and netwmpager on the desktop machine, lxpanel* on the netbook.

Thunderbird for mail, although I've been eyeing up Claws Mail for a while.

mpd & Sonata on the desktop, mplayer on the netbook because there isn't much music on there anyway.

Zsh on the desktop, bash on the netbook. No, I don't know why. I never got round to installing zsh, I suppose.

*Actually a patched version that reinstates the sideways text on the clock because I use it on the left edge of the screen. I've been meaning to post the patch on the main forums for ages. I think what's stopping me is that it's a bit rough and ready: it only affects the clock, nothing else, and even then it doesn't quite work properly. I Am Not A Programmer. Still, it's good enough for me. If anyone's interested, let me know.