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Thanks again.

Thanks, this is worth knowing. I often use programs that don't have .deb files.

You are supposed to update the whole system (except AUR packages) in Arch whenever you do an upgrade. Partial updates -- where you only update some selected packages -- is what will mess up your Arch install eventually

Thanks for replying, That's what I did (or thought I was doing, although I cant ...

Arch is not worth the required investment of time

People who like Arch tend to stick with it and don't want to use anything else. For me, it was the difficulty in upgrading it that ruled it out as a serious proposition.

I used to have an old Pentium 3 computer with just 512MB of RAM. Despite ...

Someone mentioned Puppy in this thread. I used Puppy for many years and built up a considerable post count (over 2000) on their forum

I started with Puppy 2.00, then moved on to 2.14, 3.01, 4.00, and 4.20 through to 4.31. I have particularly good memories of the derivatives of Puppy 2.14 that I ...

Isn't there a difference between the network connection managers as well? AntiX uses Connman (Connection Manager), whereas MX uses NetworkManager,

Hi everyone,

I struggled with Crux. I tried Exton's spin on it (CruxEx) a while back, but it took an age to update anything and it insisted on updating the whole of Rust just because of one small package that relied on it.

I had the same problem with Gentoo.

I liked the concept of Crux though ...