1. Arch linux anyone? Distro choices blah blah.

[dom at latter.org]

Federico Flego wrote:

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> Hope it helps somehow...

Yes, in that at least one person I "know" is actually using Arch!

There's a lot to be said for "add what you need" - I've flirted with
Gentoo in the past but then of course you end up obsessed with optimising
everything to the nth degree instead of getting on with actually *using*
the system.

I may give Arch a go but the worry is that with non-generic hardware (in
other words a laptop) I'd end up spending too much time trying to get
things working that with a well-known distro like Ubuntu, well, at least
you can search the forums and find someone else that has been there already.