>First of all, nothing works out of the box. You will have to manually set up the driver for your video card, support for your sound card (which can be a little

>First of all, nothing works out of the box. You will have to manually set up the driver for your video card, support for your sound card (which can be a little difficult if you use USB headphones), wifi support, Xorg, your desktop environment and/or window manager of choice, etc. I've been using Arch for a number of years and I don't see why the author thinks it's so difficult to set up. During installation I only set up partitioning and /etc/rc.conf which is the main configuration file. I'd set up partitions and change some default settings (like keymap, locale, etc) on any computer, so it's not a problem. I also make sure wicd is installed for painless Wifi configuration. After the first boot, I install most of the stuff I use with a one-liner, something like this: pacman -S xorg xfce4 chromium-browser pidgin gdm thunderbird mc skype htop vim gcc ruby and that's my base system. Plus, being a rolling release distro means that you don't have to do major upgrades (which tend to break things more often than not). The installation I'm currently using on my main computer is about 20 months old and I've even changed my machine since then. My video card works after installing xorg, sound works out of the box, wifi works out of the box, etc.