What to study before installing Artix
by trewornan from LinuxQuestions.org on (#56NVP)
Hope this isn't inappropriate but there doesn't appear to be a specific forum for Artix so posting here instead.
A couple of weeks ago I fell over and landed on my laptop, which was smashed beyond repair, fortunately I was able to salvage the hard drive out of it so I didn't lose all my data (a lot of it was backed up anyway but who has backups 100% up to date).
I bought a new laptop and decided to install Artix as I've been wanting to move to a distribution without systemd for some time and Arch is getting a lot of positive talk recently. I'm a pretty experienced Linux user (I've used Redhat, Debian, Knoppix, Suse, Ubuntu . . . even OpenBSD) so I was fairly confident in my ability to install, configure and use a new distribution.
However I almost immediately ran into problems even something as basic as installing Vim, almost the very first thing I did, ran into dependency problems. I don't know if I used pacman wrong:
sudo pacman -S vim
I've forgotten what my second attempted install was but that ran into dependency problems too. I had some other problems some of which I was able to resolve but others . . . well to be honest I just gave up and installed Ubuntu instead.
So a number of issues:
Q1. Is that command correct or was I mis-using pacman?
Q2. Is this likely to be an issue peculiar to Artix and not Arch?
Q3. Do I need to learn more about Arch/Artix before I try to install it again and what resources are available/recommended?
Q4. As I'm very used to the apt and dpkg systems would I perhaps be better off with debuan (not meant to be inflammatory)?
A couple of weeks ago I fell over and landed on my laptop, which was smashed beyond repair, fortunately I was able to salvage the hard drive out of it so I didn't lose all my data (a lot of it was backed up anyway but who has backups 100% up to date).
I bought a new laptop and decided to install Artix as I've been wanting to move to a distribution without systemd for some time and Arch is getting a lot of positive talk recently. I'm a pretty experienced Linux user (I've used Redhat, Debian, Knoppix, Suse, Ubuntu . . . even OpenBSD) so I was fairly confident in my ability to install, configure and use a new distribution.
However I almost immediately ran into problems even something as basic as installing Vim, almost the very first thing I did, ran into dependency problems. I don't know if I used pacman wrong:
sudo pacman -S vim
I've forgotten what my second attempted install was but that ran into dependency problems too. I had some other problems some of which I was able to resolve but others . . . well to be honest I just gave up and installed Ubuntu instead.
So a number of issues:
Q1. Is that command correct or was I mis-using pacman?
Q2. Is this likely to be an issue peculiar to Artix and not Arch?
Q3. Do I need to learn more about Arch/Artix before I try to install it again and what resources are available/recommended?
Q4. As I'm very used to the apt and dpkg systems would I perhaps be better off with debuan (not meant to be inflammatory)?