Why I was about to quit ... and why I didn't

Hi all,
I have been using Arch for 8 months now.
I recently no more felt has enthusiastic has I was before, for mainly two reasons :
- Some updates broke some functionalities.
- I felt like other distro's Gnome packaging was more eye candy than Arch's one.
I thus tried (again) Ubuntu, Mandriva, and Fedora using Virtualbox. I liked Fedora the most and decided to install it beside my Arch, and see if it could make me abandon Arch.
The answer is no : Arch is still definitely the best distro I have ever tried
So why I didn't quit ?
- I realized that whatever the gui tool you provide to configure a Linux system, one day or another your users will have to understand the background functionality and use the console + config files. With Fedora it came out very quickly because the famous Network Manager does not handle static IP configuration well (do you believe it ?). And I was very surprised that there was very few documentation to help using the config files. Fortunately my LFS + Gentoo + Arch experience helped me a lot . The "Arch Way" is so right about this point.
- The package management : you can provide thousands of packages, one day or another your users will have to make their own package either because you do not provide it our because it needs a patch or a configure option which is not provided out of the box. If I found RPM easier than DEB, there are both at many light-years than PKGBUILD ease of use. Moreover I found pacman much simpler and easy to use than Yum.
- The AUR : every distro make a choice concerning their package repository policy. But one day or another users will need a package outside the main repos. AUR make your life so easier than what you can find with Ubuntu or Fedora, where you have to browse the net to find a repo which override the main repo packages when you only need 1 package ! Also it really make it easy to contribute to the community.
- Eye candy : Fortunately Ubuntu and Fedora people share their contributions to others. I am able to use Fedora's theme, and have all the eye candy I want ! If it is not delivered out of the box it is normal in fact : who have the same feelings as a color blind guy like me ?
and last but not least :
- The updates : What ever the distro you use, you will one day have to cope with an update which broke a functionality. I have had this problem with EVERY distro I used. The thing is that you have to be more careful with a rolling release distro, because you have updates more frequently. Also the update breakage I had was mainly due to upstream bug, not to Arch. Now I will not perform every day update any more. I will only update the system when I know I have time to test every thing is normal and fix the problems if any. Also I will write down a list of packages I want to particularly care about and maybe put them in the NoUpgrage variable in my pacman.conf, so that I am warned when a new update is available for those packages and take some time to look at the update.
Definitely I am going to stay with Arch. The more I try other distros the more I think Arch is a distro for me. THE distro I have been looking for
Here is a little advice to those who, like me, felt like Arch was maybe not the best distro for you : Just try another one. Virtualbox (and others) is your friend. And even install a new distro beside your Arch. But please wait a few weeks before removing your Arch : you could wish you had not removed it sooner than you think ...

I often try to stay out of distro discussions because I realize that everyone has his or her own preferences. However, just a couple of days ago, I was researching a problem getting Konqueror to handle file associations properly. One of the Google hits was in a Fedora forum. I was amazed at the lack of expertise in some of the posts that were intended to be helpful -- I'm not talking about people asking questions, I'm talking about people trying to "help" others. Several times the advice was just to reinstall all of KDE. I felt sorry for users of so many distros who, because their distro is designed to "protect" the user from the system's inner workings, are denied real understanding of how to maintain their systems.
I've always appreciated in Arch, Gentoo, and Slackware that there are truly knowledgeable people who are happy to lend advice, and that the distro itself is designed to encourage exploration. The goal is always to learn more, try to work through problems, and try to understand why something's not going right, not to just zap everything and start over (though I admit that on occasion that is the best solution).

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