As stated in the title, I will be installing a different OS instead of what I had been using before. Why? I wanted to squeeze out as much of the power from the computer’s hardware as possible. Thus, I required an optimized or frugal OS. My choice? Sidux. Arch Linux would have been my first pick except for two snags I encountered on previous experiences with it: 1. The most important thing of all is that I had trouble connecting to the same repo more than once which is quite benifical to installing and/or upgrading the OS. 2. It takes quite some time to set everything up; time which I did not have.

For anyone having trouble with the installation, the Sidux community has an excellent manual. Don’t take my word for it though: Read The Friendly Manual.

Also use the:

sidux-installer

command to start installing Sidux in text-mode if you wish to (or ending up with a bad xorg config on bootup like I had)

After installation, I’ll put the system through its paces before deciding which Debian based OS I’ll stick with.

UPDATE: The installation process went through beautifully. I am currently having Sidux upgraded to the newest ’stable’ version. I’ll let you all know if everything went alright in the next post. P.S.: 1h35m to go.