Is Arch really becoming unstable?

I've been having a look around the forums and I've been seeing threads saying "Don't use Arch if you don't want to keep maintaining it"...is Arch becoming what I didn't want it to become? When I switched to Arch, people on the Ubuntu forums were saying "Arch is really easy to maintain. When you've set it up, you won't need to do much more". I hope it isn't, because if I leave Arch, I'll have to drop my website (or convert it to another distro) and leave Shaman behind (I helped with some of it's artwork).
Also I wish there was something like "Archbuntu" because, to be honest, setting up Arch is getting a bit annoying. I posted this on my blog, and I said my dream distro would
* Rolling release
* Uses KDE4 (or lets you choose)
* Lets me choose what programs to install
* No extra apps I don't need/want
* Uses the pacman package manager
* A good frontend to pacman - otherwise known as Shaman
* Works well out of the box
* No need to use the CLI
Which basically means I would love an easy Arch Linux...I couldn't make a distro like that because I have no idea how to do it, and it would take hours and hours to upload an ISO...

Well having a GUI would be so much better because I would be able to see the description of apps, with Pacman, I am confronted with confusing names. Let's pick on Eye of Gnome. The Pacman package is called "eog". How exactly am I supposed to know what it is? I would have to do
pacman -Ss eog
to get
extra/eog 2.20.4-1 (gnome-extra)
Eye of Gnome: An image viewing and cataloging program
If I had a GUI, I could just click on Gnome, then scroll down to "e" (Pacman orders packages in repo order) then tick the box. Which one sounds easier? I search for burn and it comes up with:
kde/k3b 1.0.4-20080331
Feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application
extra/dvd+rw-tools 7.1-1
dvd burning tools
extra/graveman 0.3.12.5-4
A CD-burning frontend for mkisofs, cdrecord and friends
extra/k3b 1.0.4-1
Feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application
extra/nautilus-cd-burner 2.20.0-1 (gnome-extra)
Adds cd burner functionality to nautilus
community/bashburn 2.1.2-3
BashBurn is the new name for the cd burning shell script Magma
community/brasero 0.7.1-2
A disc burning application for Gnome
community/gnomebaker 0.6.2-1
GnomeBaker is a full featured CD/DVD burning application for Gnome
community/hacburn 0.3.5-3
HacBurn is a script written in perl to aid in writing CDs. It is a graphical
interface (using gtk+) to cdrtools, mpg321 and ogg123.
community/libburn 0.4.2-1
Library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs
community/nrg2iso 0.4-5
Utility for converting CD or DVD image generated by Nero Burning Rom to ISO
format
community/xfburn-svn 26453-1 (xfce4-svn)
CDROM and DVD burning program for XFCE4
testing/k3b 1.0.4-2
Feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application
testing/nautilus-cd-burner 2.22.0-1 (gnome-extra)
Adds cd burner functionality to nautilus
How am I supposed to find the best burner with that? I'll have to experiment with each one until I find a good one...
Last edited by miggols99 (2008-03-31 17:36:32)

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