Get 'em anyways?

[Limited]

Hi, I'm new..just registered yesterday.

I have tried a lot of livecd distros and some were actually better than others. The very last were Fedora Core 6 and Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy). I was not that impressed with neither..Fedora was very clean (cool) but slow, Ubuntu stopped responding after having 5/6 programs running and I was actually sad about it.

I'm trying to find a fast (at the same time stable) distro..something I could boot instead of (or with) windows. I've searched a bit and all I could find was Archlinux and Slack - now my question is if I install Arch (since I wasn't able to find a livecd) how would I be able to install apps, the same way Ubuntu does?

In Ubuntu I just sudo and other code in terminal and there I'd had apps installed..But in Arch it seems a bit different. It's not laziness, but just the fact that a lot of apps are already packed for Ubuntu and I have little time to spend at home.

Thanks,
Limited

[rong]

Welcome to the forum.

Hi, I'm new..just registered yesterday.
I'm trying to find a fast (at the same time stable) distro..something I could boot instead of (or with) windows. I've searched a bit and all I could find was Archlinux and Slack - now my question is if I install Arch (since I wasn't able to find a livecd) how would I be able to install apps, the same way Ubuntu does?

Arch uses it's own variation of a package manager called pacman. The main issue for you is to know that Arch is a fairly big build project. If you read their installation documentation you can judge for yourself if it's really what you are looking for. If you don't have a lot of time it's not for you.

I suggest you not get into the "which distro is best" type of questions or this thread will get closed in a hurry. However asking specific questions about a specific distro is fine as long as you've done some quality research first.

There are several sticky posts here covering the topic of which is best. Check them out for some good suggestions on the subject.

[netstrider]

I'd say you should not judge the distros yet before you have installed them it might be that Ubuntu works fine for you on HDD..try dual-booting some of them alongside Windows.

[Cabhan]

You should be aware that no LiveCD will run as fast as a distro installed to your HD. If, for instance, you enjoyed Ubuntu, try installing it alongside Windows, and see if it works for you. It's very easy to install and replace Linux distros, so there's no reason to avoid doing so.

[tuxv]

You might wnat to try Debian, Ubuntu is a variant from Debian. And Debian is Stable and much more faster than Ubuntu.

And you might be interested in Vector Linux too, It's fast and stable.