I also feel like I pay much more attention on Arch to avoiding cruft, and having the exact right config in /etc. At first I have to admit that I thought Arch wa

I also feel like I pay much more attention on Arch to avoiding cruft, and having the exact right config in /etc. At first I have to admit that I thought Arch was just a weird form of role-play where Linux people deliberately made their lives difficult to feel clever, but I can't deny I've learned a huge amount about configuration and simplicity since switching. With Ubuntu I'd mostly started treating it like Windows, which is great in a way, but not really what I want out of a system.