emshains
March 11th, 2010, 09:58 PM
Hello forum!
Recently I've been having moronic problems with 9.10, more precisely, with metacity/gnome-bar, usbmuxd, a bit of nvidia driver specific problems and general apt problems, like broken packages. So, I've decided to try something a bit more easier to sustain. Since I've quit gaming on the PC, and usually all I do is browse the web, listen to music and watch movies on the pc, I think I could try either arch or gentoo. But I don't want to fiddle with the partitions.
I already have made a seperate /home partition, the root partition has around 20 gb. So, if I want to install any other linux distro, I can just tell it to install on those 20 gb of the root partition ?
And how about wireless drivers in gentoo/arch ? Do they have some kind of uncompiled packages on the install CD or do I have to get the packages myself before installing ?
Recently I've been having moronic problems with 9.10, more precisely, with metacity/gnome-bar, usbmuxd, a bit of nvidia driver specific problems and general apt problems, like broken packages. So, I've decided to try something a bit more easier to sustain. Since I've quit gaming on the PC, and usually all I do is browse the web, listen to music and watch movies on the pc, I think I could try either arch or gentoo. But I don't want to fiddle with the partitions.
I already have made a seperate /home partition, the root partition has around 20 gb. So, if I want to install any other linux distro, I can just tell it to install on those 20 gb of the root partition ?
And how about wireless drivers in gentoo/arch ? Do they have some kind of uncompiled packages on the install CD or do I have to get the packages myself before installing ?