That PAM issue last month cost me ~8 hours (5 to drive home, long story). Nevertheless, it was the first time in about 2 years that I'd run into this kind of pa

That PAM issue last month cost me ~8 hours (5 to drive home, long story). Nevertheless, it was the first time in about 2 years that I'd run into this kind of pain with Arch. Mostly the OS has been rock solid and out of the way, and I enjoy being able to dive deep when needed. I'd given linux a try every few years since 2001. Arch was the first distro that stuck for me. It's like the OS equivalent of writing a library from scratch vs plugging into someone else's framework. It's hard to imagine going back at this point.