Fed up by, well, my mediocrity, I boot my archlinux machine again. Firefox shows a cached version of Google News July 30th 2013. It's been a month already. I just needed a debian based distro to try docker.io, arch is supported but it needs an aufs kernel module, which requires quite a lot of disk space to compile, my partition setup forbis such an amount. Anyway, Mint 15 was a agreable experience, after a while I forgot about arch, the overall better desktop configuration (better colors schemes, fonts, themes) made it feel stabler. I greatly suffered the windows manager intercepting all my emacs keybindings. also Xmonad screens suits me better than floating windows ala Mate.
The Mint 15 machine is less old, core duo => core 2 duo, with twice the ram and a non sluggish hard drive. A lot of things were faster. But a few days ago, I messed up the user/groups in Mint, I can't sudo anymore, booting singler user is useless since I believe root doesn't have a password, which is required by ubuntu/mint recovery mode. I don't even know what group I belonged to in the first place. Now I boot arch, the disk screams but 10 seconds later I'm under Xmonad. The terminal fires up fast, emacs fires up fast. Everything seems a little more reactive. This core duo can't decode 720p without choking but for most things everything is a little better. It's not even an engineered and polished system, I blended configuration examples, tweaks from wikis until it was good enough (c).
I have to admit, I forget a lot of things. Passwords took a little time to come back. I don't remember what I told Xmonad for launching the browser or the editor, fortunately I left the default dmenu one. Day saved.
Mint is not rolling, I missed the constant contact with arch repos. I'm in for a treat now. Pacman says I have 163 presents to open before midnight. Let's see if arch breaks as easily as I read so often on r/archlinux.
$ sudo pacman -Su
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace python-distribute with extra/python-setuptools? [Y/n]
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Packages (167): ack-2.08-1 alsa-plugins-1.0.27-2 archlinux-keyring-20130818-1
bash-4.2.045-5 binutils-2.23.2-3 bison-3.0-1
ca-certificates-java-20130815-1 cairo-1.12.16-1 cantarell-fonts-0.0.14-1
chromaprint-0.7-6 chromium-29.0.1547.62-1 cloc-1.60-1
cmus-2.5.0-3 cpupower-3.10-2 cryptsetup-1.6.2-1
curl-7.32.0-1 device-mapper-2.02.100-1 dhcpcd-6.0.5-1
dvdauthor-0.7.1-6 emacs-24.3-4 ethtool-1:3.10-1
fbida-2.09-3 ffmpeg-1:2.0.1-1 file-roller-3.8.4-1
fluidsynth-1.1.6-2 fontconfig-2.10.95-1 fuse-2.9.3-1
gcc-4.8.1-3 gcc-libs-4.8.1-3 gdb-7.6.1-1
gettext-0.18.3.1-1 ghostscript-9.10-1 giflib-5.0.4-2
git-1.8.4-1 glew-1.10.0-2 glib2-2.36.4-1
glibc-2.18-3 gnokii-0.6.31-6 gnome-icon-theme-3.8.3-1
gnome-settings-daemon-3.8.4-2 gnupg-2.0.21-1 gnuplot-4.6.3-1
gnutls-3.2.4-1 go-2:1.1.2-2 gpgme-1.4.3-1
graphviz-2.32.0-1 groff-1.22.2-5 grub-2.00.5086-1
gst-libav-1.0.10-1 gst-plugins-bad-1.0.10-1 gst-plugins-base-1.0.10-1
gst-plugins-base-libs-1.0.10-1 gst-plugins-good-1.0.10-1 gst-plugins-ugly-1.0.10-1
gstreamer-1.0.10-1 gtk3-3.8.4-1 guvcview-1.7.1-2
hwdetect-2013.08-2 iftop-1.0pre2-1 imagemagick-6.8.6.9-1
imlib2-1.4.5-5 intel-dri-9.2.0-1 inxi-1.9.14-1
iproute2-3.10.0-1 iputils-20121221-3 ipython-1.0.0-3
isl-0.12.1-1 iso-codes-3.44-1 jdk7-openjdk-7.u40_2.4.1-3
jre7-openjdk-7.u40_2.4.1-3 jre7-openjdk-headless-7.u40_2.4.1-3 jshon-20130815-1
kbd-2.0.0-1 keychain-2.7.1-3 kmod-15-1
lftp-4.4.9-1 libarchive-3.1.2-2 libbsd-0.6.0-1
libgexiv2-0.6.1-2 libmariadbclient-5.5.32-2 libmng-2.0.2-2
librsvg-1:2.37.0-1 libsamplerate-0.1.8-2 libtiff-4.0.3-3
libtracker-sparql-0.16.2-1 libusbx-1.0.16-2 libvdpau-0.7-1
libwbclient-4.0.9-1 libwebp-0.3.1-3 linux-3.10.10-1
linux-api-headers-3.10.6-1 lirc-utils-1:0.9.0-58 llvm-libs-3.3-1
logrotate-3.8.6-1 lshw-B.02.17-1 lvm2-2.02.100-1
man-pages-3.53-1 mariadb-5.5.32-2 mariadb-clients-5.5.32-2
mercurial-2.7-1 mesa-9.2.0-1 mesa-libgl-9.2.0-1
mkinitcpio-0.15.0-1 mkinitcpio-busybox-1.21.1-2 moreutils-0.49-1
mpd-0.17.5-1 mplayer-36285-4 mupdf-1.3-4
nasm-2.10.09-1 netctl-1.3-1 nodejs-0.10.17-1
nspr-4.10-2 nss-3.15.1-1 ntp-4.2.6.p5-17
openresolv-3.5.6-1 pacman-mirrorlist-20130830-1 parallel-20130722-1
perl-5.18.1-1 perl-error-0.17021-1 perl-file-next-1.12-1
perl-time-duration-1:1.1-3 php-5.5.3-1 php-apache-5.5.3-1
php-pear-5.5.3-1 pixman-0.30.2-1 powertop-2.4-1
python-distribute-0.6.45-1 [removal] python-numpy-1.7.1-2
python-pip-1.4.1-2 python-pygments-1.6-2 python-setuptools-1.0-1
python-tornado-3.1.1-1 python-virtualenv-1.10.1-1 python2-mako-0.8.1-2
python2-markupsafe-0.18-2 python2-paramiko-1.11.0-1 racket-5.3.6-1
redis-2.6.16-1 redshift-1.7-7 reiserfsprogs-3.6.24-1
run-parts-4.4-1 sbcl-1.1.10-1 serf-1.3.0-1
sip-4.15.1-1 smartmontools-6.2-1 smbclient-4.0.9-1
sqlite-3.8.0.1-1 subversion-1.8.1-2 syslog-ng-3.4.3-1
tcl-8.6.0-5 testdisk-6.14-1 tk-8.6.0-2
ttf-dejavu-2.34-1 unrtf-0.21.5-1 util-linux-2.23.2-1
valgrind-3.8.1-3 vim-7.4.0-2 vim-runtime-7.4.0-2
wayland-1.2.1-1 x264-20130702-2 xdebug-2.2.3-3
xf86-video-intel-2.21.15-1 xorg-xprop-1.2.2-1 xorg-xset-1.2.3-1
xorg-xwd-1.0.6-1 youtube-dl-2013.08.30-1 zsh-5.0.2-3
Total Download Size: 484.72 MiB
Total Installed Size: 2021.43 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 27.16 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
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