In my experience Arch has been pretty solid indeed (not as solid as, say, Debian sid, but close enough), but that assumes that you do read the news pages before

In my experience Arch has been pretty solid indeed (not as solid as, say, Debian sid, but close enough), but that assumes that you do read the news pages before upgrading and that you know how to deal with AUR well. Otherwise it's not Arch's fault when it breaks :P