I've been using Linux for longer than I care to remember (and 386BSD before that) and after a few years on Ubuntu I was amazed at how much of a breath of fresh

I've been using Linux for longer than I care to remember (and 386BSD before that) and after a few years on Ubuntu I was amazed at how much of a breath of fresh air Arch is. Ubuntu always worked well compared to other distros, I could do stuff and it'd just work or there'd be plenty of help and support. I put Arch on an old P3 850 with 256mb of RAM and it just flies. I can be logged into my desktop from cold boot in the time it takes for my dual core Vista laptop to go from login to desktop. That (and discovering awesome wm) are the reasons that Arch gets my vote. Yes there's a learning curve as with any new distro or program but it's definitely worthwhile.