Oooh, hardcore. Never had any problem with Ubuntu's hw detection since deciding to see what all the fuss was about a year ago and liked it enough to switch from SuSE. I like the "build from scratch" idea with Arch - clean, optimised, minimal - but I don't have the time these days so it's binary installs and let apt do the updates. I bow to your superior penguin purity
It really isn't that time consuming to be fair. Print off the WIKI beginners guide,run the iso and get stuck in. If I can do it anyone can. I can tell you, once you've got it running, it's one bad ass minimal system. I'm using KDEmod as my DE and it's fucking brilliant. Like they say, KDE on steroids.
Don't be put off, once installed, the package manager is the nuts. Much better imo, than apt or yast.
Plus, Arch has a rolling release, so a simple 'pacman -Syu' and you're system is upgraded. I run it once a day, easy as fuck.
Everything on my system is just what i've installed, with none of that extra junk that's not needed. Beautiful.
Once you've tried Arch you won't go back.
Fuck, I need to get out more!!
