Following on from my Installing Arch Linux with KDE post, installing GNOME instead of KDE is very simple.
When editing the /etc/inittab file from the KDE guide, uncomment the gdm line and not the kdm one
# Example lines for starting a login manager #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >/dev/null 2>&1
I’ve always kept an interest in Linux and I normally check out the latest version of Ubuntu, however after hearing so many good things about Arch Linux I decided to download a copy and give it a try.
The default desktop environment for Ubuntu has always been GNOME, so I decided to install KDE, this guide will step through what I did to install Arch Linux and then install KDE on my system.
I have used KDE before via Kubuntu, however I thought I would try Arch Linux becasue as they say, it’s a lightweight distrobution that keeps things simple
You’ve reached the website for Arch Linux, a lightweight and flexible Linux® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.
This means I can install a clean copy of KDE and install only the applications I want.
I’ve been moving round Linux distributions recently and currently find myself using (and rather enjoying) Arch Linux.
As my article on installing MiniDLNA on Ubuntu is so far my post popular, I though I’d document how I installed and configured it on Arch.
There is a MiniDLNA package for Arch in the community reposotory, meaning it can be installed very easily via Pacman (the following commands have been run as root, add sudo to the beginning of them if you have installed and configured it)
pacman -S minidlna