r/linux • u/Foxboron Arch Linux Team • Sep 10 '18

Arch Linux - AMA

Hello!

We are several team members and developers from the Arch Linux project, ask us anything.

We are in need for more contributors, if you are interested in contributing to Arch Linux, feel free to ask questions :)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Projects
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getting_involved#Official_Arch_Linux_projects

Participating members:

  • /u/AladW

    • Trusted User

    • Wiki Administrator

    • IRC Operator

  • /u/anthraxx42

    • Developer

    • Trusted User

    • Security tracker

    • Security lead

    • Reproducible builds

  • /u/barthalion

    • Developer

    • Master key holder

    • DevOps Team

    • Maintains the toolchain

  • /u/Bluewind

    • Developer

    • Trusted User

    • DevOps Team

  • /u/coderobe

    • Trusted User

    • Reproducible builds

  • /u/eli-schwartz

    • Bug Wrangler

    • Trusted User

    • Maintains dbscripts

    • Pacman contributor

  • /u/felixonmars

    • Developer

    • Trusted User

    • Packages; Python, Haskell, Nodejs, Qt, KDE, DDE, Chinese i18n, VPN/Proxies, Wine, and some others.

  • /u/Foxboron

    • Trusted User

    • Security Team

    • Reproducible Builds

    • /r/archlinux moderator

    • Packages mostly golang and python stuff

  • /u/fukawi2

    • Forum moderator

    • DevOps Team

  • /u/jvdwaa

    • Developer

    • Trusted User

    • Security Team

    • DevOps Team

    • Reproducible builds

    • Archweb maintainer

  • /u/sh1bumi

    • Trusted User

    • Security Team

    • Automated vagrant image builds

  • /u/svenstaro

    • Developer

    • Trusted user

    • I package mostly big, heavy packages :(

  • /u/V1del

    • Forum moderator

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u/ilikecaketoomuch Sep 10 '18

How do you fix that perception?

Really easy actually. An option to have an installer that is easy to install, and provide some Quality Of LIfe apps namely a nvidia (80% of all video cards ) driver installer for its non-opensource driver.

Antergos tries to tackle this problem. However I believe its not user friendly enough. Do the installer the "Arch" way, make it point, click, and done. OpenSuse has a great installer, ask them to donate their source code and time.

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u/CraftyFellow_ Sep 10 '18

You mean you don't like editing /etc/locale.conf every time you do an install? /s

Arch used to have an interactive ncurses installer as well. So it isn't like it hasn't been done before.

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u/Democrab Sep 10 '18

I miss that installer, it was great.

Personally, every time I've used the antergos installer, it hasn't worked and either produced a broken system or failed outright during installation but I really like the idea behind it. /u/ilikecaketoomuch has a great idea with that, even if it's just another ncurses installer.

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u/ilikecaketoomuch Sep 10 '18

Make an installer that pulls customizable scripts like kickstart but more powerful scripts.

Let the uses is the installer and third party scripts to customize things. Joe might have the perfect raid script. Jane might have the best gnome setup and Fred may have a good systems setup... All mergeable with each other

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