- #ARCH LINUX IMAGE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC INSTALL#
- #ARCH LINUX IMAGE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC UPDATE#
- #ARCH LINUX IMAGE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC UPGRADE#
#ARCH LINUX IMAGE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC UPGRADE#
Instead, you have a constantly rolling upgrade system, where you're always on the latest version, without having to wait another year for the next big LTS.Įvery major distro has "unsupported" repositories for proprietary binaries (codecs for example) or 3rd-party software. There is no such thing as a big bang upgrade every 6 months that breaks everything. So, it seems that the philosophy of Arch is to have the real most recent version of all software that won't break your system. You can easily pacman -Sy postgresql and you're in business.Īnd if you're on Ubuntu 14.04 and now you want 16.04, good luck on dist-upgrade your way. (By the way, "Pac"kage "Man"ager is the most obvious name ever).
#ARCH LINUX IMAGE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC INSTALL#
So, in Ubuntu 16.04 and Fedora 25, if I want to install Postgresql, I am locked in to 9.4 or 9.5, but in Arch I can access 9.6 from the main Pacman repositories. It keeps pushing the most recent version of software without breaking everything else all the time. Now, it seems that Arch figured out the exactly "right" level of confidence between stable and cutting-edge. If you install the unstable repositories, you're doomed to have stuff exploding in your face without explanation and losing hours browsing through Stackoverflow. If you install the Long-Term Support (LTS) versions, you're doomed to have only old packages from a couple of years ago. Most major distros are divided between "stable" (but with very old packages) and "unstable" (but with the cutting-edge goodness). I signed in to my Google accounts and I am delighted to report that it's not expiring and it "Just Works"! This is the kind of polish I expect from a major distro, not the fiasco that's labeled as "stable" in Fedora. Now the surprise: on Arch Linux, I chose Gnome 3.22 as my desktop and manually installed the gnome-online-account package. And manually configuring Evolution for Google wasn't pleasant. But the tokens were getting expired all the time, so the integration was useless. Then compatible apps like Evolution and the built-in Calendar can pick them up. GOA collects authentication tokens after you sign in to your social services like Google.
One thing that didn't work at all was Gnome's Online Accounts. It feels more like a toy than a serious environment to do work.įedora 25 looks good with Gnome 3, but it still gave me a few headaches. Ubuntu is heavily customized for Unity and I really, really dislike it. In practice, you can force any distro to become whatever you want, but I'd rather not fight the defaults. So I tried out Fedora 25 and I was delighted by how Gnome 3.22 evolved nicely.Ĭompared to Ubuntu, Fedora's defaults felt nicer. Since I decided to move back from macOS to Linux, I didn't want to just return to old Ubuntu (yes, I get bored of doing the same things for too long).
#ARCH LINUX IMAGE VIRTUALBOX FOR MAC UPDATE#
Update : If you're on old hardware like me, you may want to optimize your installation to be way more responsiveness, read all about it here.
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