I program for Linux, not Windows where everything is just a pain.
I decided to take the time to reload my linux installation. I have also decided to try out LXDE instead of XFCE. So far I’m very happy with it. It seems to run even smother then XFCE and looks better at the same time. It only took me about one hour to completely reinstall everything. So it was not too bad. Having my own local repo really made everything go much quicker since I could download my packages at 15MBs instead of 500KBs or less.
I have been known to break my entire system or parts of it every once in a while. Well this time it was not my fault! I dual boot Arch Linux and Windows, I use Arch for my main system. Windows is for game only. A few days ago I decide to play some game right after I had been working on some projects on Arch. I had lots of windows open that I did not feel like opening again. So I decide to use XFCE session save, which will reload everything you had open the next time to log back in again. Well it does not work. I save my session, jumped over to windows and play some games for a few days. I booted back into Arch and XFCE completely broke. Nothing reloaded right and I can’t reset it. I going to have to do a installation of Arch!!!
I decided to create my own local repository for Arch Linux. It will take some time to download all of the packages, but I will no longer have to do this again expect for updates. For now on I can install package from my own repository which will save a lot of download time. I found a script that I can run periodically to up date my local repository, so that it will always be up to date. I do a complete reinstall of my Linux distro about once a month.
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