I switched to Arch Linux ~2007 from Slackware. Painless, and much less hassle (I've been manually building the whole of GNOME on Slackware, after Slackware drop

I switched to Arch Linux ~2007 from Slackware. Painless, and much less hassle (I've been manually building the whole of GNOME on Slackware, after Slackware dropped that a few year prior). I don't think I've reinstalled my workstation's Arch instllation ever since (just kept rsyncing to a new drive, when the old one was morally outlived). So Arch itself is great in this respect. The distributed software itself breaks from time to time (it's bleeding edge, so that's expected), but that's not really on Arch Linux, and largely depends on your choice of software. (my DE never failed to run, I use i3wm) The most annoying thing about arch linux is kernel updates remove the currently running kernel's modules from the filesystem, so if you hotplug a device that needs a module to be loaded, you'll have to reboot first. The systems that keep the previous kernel version installed are a bit better in this respect. So now I load modules for all devices I expect to connect on boot. This makes it less painful.