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Honestly, the article seems rather pointless to me. The kind of people who don't know what a bootloader is should probably not be using Arch Linux or Slackware. Not to mention that at least Arch Linux has a far more detailed and better official documentation, so experienced users who like to try out Arch would probably be much happier with that.

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To be fair, the author does mention that people who are new are better off trying Ubuntu. And I found that Arch linux is a great distro to try and understand Linux in the process because of its excellent documentation. Currently, the arch linux lacks ncurses-based installer, but when this article was written, it was fairly easy to install arch.

They lost me at LILO. What year is this, again?

Oh, right. It's 2012 and uucp is still an essential part of Linux and BSD.

Doesn't anyone ever take out the trash?

LILO is actually still in considerably wide use in datacenters because Grub, after all those years, still hasn't stabilized (frequent issues with software RAID, GUID misdetection, etc.)

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