Why the HELL did I ever try any other distro?

Let me preface my comments by saying I was, at one point, a gentoo fanboy. That is, until I discovered I could get a system up and running that's just as fast as a gentoo box in oh, a third of the time.
Long live Arch.

OK,
My first try of linux was moreless in 1997. I tried RH and Caldera ;-) They survived in my PC about 1 week. It seemed to be a big virus :-)
Then, in 2000-2001, i bought my actual PC, and installed XP. But it was horribly slow, so, hating MS, tried Linux again, with RH.
But, again, the same problem: i had the sensation that i a lot of sofware was running or installed, and, didn't know why. That mixture of GTK and QT made me crazy. I prefer seeing how the things are made, before, seeing the whole thing, and discovering, how it was made.
So, i discovered a thing that sounded fine: Linux from scracth (LFS).
I made love with LFS ;-) for about 3 years. I learned what software is, how it works, the dependencies. But, not a the first try. Once made a complete system, i discovered new things that make the system better. At this time, i tried Gentoo, just to try, but didn't like. I prefered making myself the system.
After 4 or 5 system "construction", morelees November 2005, a new version of LFS came up, so i began to make it. When finished LFS, and before starting BLFS, i realizaed, that i was tired of compiling.
So, i decided, that time of LFS was finished, as what i was looking for when i knew about it, was perfectly made (thanks LFS). In that moment, a knew exactly what i want:
- Binary, no more compilation!! :-)
- Good Package system
- Actual software, but only using oficial repos
- Minimal base system (one LFS). After that, i'll install only what i want
- minimal editing of configuration files to make it work
So, before installing distros, i started to read the manuals of every distribution: gentoo (has binary package), RH, Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu... but all of them had things that i didn't like. Until i found someone in the net talking about Arch. I read the user manual and thought: this isn't possible, is what i want, exactly!!
So, i installed the base system, rebooted, made a "pacman -S kde", copied my xorg.conf from LFS to Arch, and... perfect!!!. I only had need of editing 3 or 4 conf files to have my system as i want!!
And, here i follow :-)
bye

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