Oh man. This seems to have spawned an anecdota war. I think the main issue/benefit with arch linux is that it wont try to do anything for you, except give you

Oh man. This seems to have spawned an anecdota war. I think the main issue/benefit with arch linux is that it wont try to do anything for you, except give you extra instructions for when a package change requires "manual intervention". I put that in quotes because I don't think of that as breakage, I think of that as normal upkeep. We'll, as long as it's listed. Anyway, the implications are that things can be stable longer on arch because there is no magic under the hood. But there will be times (though I haven't experienced it myself), where something unexpectedly breaks, and it'll be hard to recover unless you know what your doing... though maybe it's actually easy with the rolling back packages? The package manage does keep copies of old versions of packages, I've just never needed them. As an example if this, my co worker and I have very similar thinkpad laptops. His graphics start doing wierd things that hes has to go fix after every update (Fedora or Ubuntu, can't remember). I took 4+ hours to get mine working how I want, with research and experimentation, but nothing has broke it since.