Hello. I'm a linux newb. I found out about Antergos Linux from someone in WP. Antergos is a variant of Arch Linux that is easy to install and adheres to Arch's philosophy of minimalism, simplicity, and user control.
I used to have Ubuntu on my laptop, but I didn't care for it, because it seemed bloated, it had a lot of features I didn't want, and I couldn't tell which ones were necessary. When I first installed it, I couldn't even figure out how to launch a terminal window! I couldn't stand the desktop Unity desktop that came with it. I changed desktops a few times, but never liked any of them.
Antergos is the first linux distro I've installed by myself. It's a "rolling release", meaning you don't have to install a new version every couple years or whatever. You just have to perform the minor updates once in a while (and my laptop seems to prompt me what they are, plus doing the updates just requires clicking on a button). I chose the default Cinammon UI, which is great. The Nemo file manager is easy to use, and many packages are easy to install using Pacman.
Sometimes, I find that doing something is harder than it would have been with Ubuntu, but I always learn something in the process. And that's OK with me. One of the reasons I'm using Linux is to learn more about computing. If I wanted everything to be easy to do, I'd always use Windows (and I do use Windows most of the time).
I hope there are others out there who can share tips about Antergos.
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DRzero
03 Mar 2015, 8:36 pm
