On Switching to Arch Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 30, 2012

“First of all, nothing works out of the box. You will have to
manually set up the driver for your video card, support for your
sound card (which can be a little difficult if you use USB
headphones), wifi support, Xorg, your desktop environment and/or
window manager of choice, etc. If this sounds horrible to you, then
Arch probably isn’t for you.

You also have to make lots of choices yourself. You start with
nothing and build your way up according to your own preferences, so
if you’re the kind of person that doesn’t enjoy tweaking or
researching and would rather just go with the flow and use whatever
your distro installs for you, then Arch isn’t a good fit.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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