Configuring has become a lot easier. I also preferred the desktop to "just work" but with a little work at the beginning I now have a laptop that "just works".

Configuring has become a lot easier. I also preferred the desktop to "just work" but with a little work at the beginning I now have a laptop that "just works". Every now and then you have to do some more work because of a major upgrade of some software package. But I prefer that over a major upgrade of the entire OS every few years. I also feel like more non-standard stuff is supported properly. No fiddling with unofficial packages. Just use AUR. (Which technically also is unsupported but still has quite good quality packages)