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Arch Linux: a Ubuntu user's perspective

Installation     Installing +Arch Linux  was honestly a little more work than I was expecting.  I for some reason was under the impression that Arch LInux was a works out of the box sort of distro.  I was sorely mistaken, installing Arch was a lot more like fighting balrogs; trying to get Gentoo working.  Not the simple insert cd come back in 25 minutes and your done kind of install that I am accustomed to with  +Ubuntu .     I had to try and try again to get grub2 to actually work, mostly because I wasn't very good at following directions... Though in my defense I believe that the installation guide for Arch could use a little clarifying.     I was somewhat suprised that after initial install Arch Linux has no network up by default.  So after getting that worked out it was just a matter of installing the correct drivers for my wireless card, which I have to do in Ubuntu actually though the process much simpler, still not to big of a hassel.     After installing the desktop