Is Arch the best distro for a friend with a "computer curse?"

Hey, guys! I need some advise. I have a friend who has a "computer curse." It runs in his family as well. Computers break down FAST in his house. He was running Windows initially, but he switched to Linux because he kept getting NASTY viruses. Viruses so nasty, I would often have to use Windows Repair Install. Linux, obviously, eliminated that problem. It created a new problem, though. Linux constantly BREAKS on him! To be more specific, he's been using Debian-based distros. Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc. All of them have been breaking on him. It's incredibly frustrating.
I've used Arch many times before. I absolutely love it, and I'm beginning to wonder if it would work for him (after I set it up for him, of course). I'm worried, though, about two things directly related - package management, and the system breaking. He ALWAYS finds a way to break the system. ALWAYS. I can lock down package management, but if I do that, he will go months and months without an update; increasing his chances of a breakage if a major security update is needed. Is there a way to balance this out?

I agree, debian stable is the winner choice for him. That's unbreakable without root perms. And I think anyone who uses linux for more then a year, finishes at arch, debian or gentoo (and some insists on slackware). Reason is: full customizability, no company background (mp3 in fedora/suse add repos issue) basic configs didn't variated, gentoo+arch:stable rolling release (innovations 5 years later even with this install, imagine you installed an xp in 2001 and now that install is a win7), debian: stable till die (but out of date)
I killed my first 2 ubuntus one and a half a year ago, and I made panicing kernel half a year ago in gentoo, which even paniced other linux installers if that hard drive was plugged in
If the guy loves innovations, you can set him up arch (or maybe the chakra project) but I basically say, the perfect solution is debian lenny with stable kde3. Old but more stable then anything I've ever seen, and fast (even on an 800Mhz 128 mb ram laptop)
And another advise: don't install him sudo. He may know google too well to use it
Last edited by Vegita (2010-01-02 19:47:03)

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