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Another vote for Arch. I've only been using Linux for half a year, maybe, and in that time I've tried Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Arch. Gentoo will always hold a plac
by pmcginn 17y ago
Another vote for Arch.
I've only been using Linux for half a year, maybe, and in that time I've tried Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Arch. Gentoo will always hold a place in my heart for teaching me more in three days than I learned in three months on Ubuntu, but maintaining it was just more work than I wanted to put in for my primary use machine. It also has the best community I've found--any question I had was already answered, in depth, on the forums. Ubuntu and Arch seem to have too many people guessing at answers instead of knowing them, from what I've experienced.
I've been consistently impressed with the Arch philosophy and implementation. Pacman's a dream to work with and the AUR/ABS is a beautiful system.