Linuxized

Finally I took the decision to migrate to Linux The distro of choice was Arch Linux and here are the reasons why I choose it:

• Provides the needed level of customizations
• Lacks default installation of Pulseaudio (unlike Fedora, ubuntu, etc.) and I HATE Pulseaudio
• Has a nice mirror in Bulgaria
• Straightforward installation and configuration (stripped down to the necessary minimum)
• Everything works out of the box (after you install it. Well almost )

Here are some notes on the installation:

1st. KDE doesn't depend on Xorg (quite lame, but it's not a problem)

2nd. Pulseaudio is not installed in the default installation, which means  sound just works (Viva ALSA!!)

3rd. The wiki is the second most comprehensive distro wiki I've ever seen (after Gentoo's) – it has everything you need or you will need

4th. Be sure to have at least two mirrors set in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist if you use http://igor.onlinedirect.bg mirror. Sometimes some packages are not available there (x86_64) Some stuff I need to do in the near future:

• Test the battery and the powersaving
  • Got about two hours on full screen brightness, wifi, streaming radio. I've got to do more testing before saying more
• Try to make video card switching (between the onboard Intel HD4500 and the external GF G130M)
• Configure the working environment:
  • Editor
  • Servers
  • Synchronization
• Configure and test video playback (choose player, add codecs if needed)
• Configure and test audio playback (choose player, add codecs if needed)
• Setup mail, calendar and integrate them in KDE
• Install Adobe Air and Tweetdeck
  • You need to install adobe-air from AUR and then download the .air package (look at the source code of the page)
• Configure hotkeys for everyday tasks
  • KeePassX (keepass ctrl+alt+k)

That's for now.  Hope I would be able to finish those tasks tomorrow night, but we'll see.