My experience with Arch is that I just install everything and it works straight out of the box because as nothing is patched the integration work done by each p

My experience with Arch is that I just install everything and it works straight out of the box because as nothing is patched the integration work done by each projects doesn't break. Meanwhile Debian and Ubuntu both are a hodgepot of random patches thrown together by more or less (but rather less) knowledgeable maintainers for reasons which are clear only to themselves and involve goals I don't share such as allowing things to run over weird kernels and maintaining some imaginary philosophical open source purity. I wouldn't touch that with a ten feet pole. I still personnaly believe that the Linux distribution system is the main reason Linux wasn't more successful. I like Arch because amongst all the successful distribution they seem to be the one doing the less.