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I don't think Linus opinion is necessarily against Arch. I am using Arch precisely because I don't want to fight my OS! I also found Gentoo, let alone Linux fr

• laumars 12y ago
  I completely agree. Arch is one of the more "technical" distributions to get to a desktop. Particularly when compared with Ubuntu and such like. But once the desktop is running, Arch is one of the easiest distros to maintain. For example: 1) despite the many criticisms levelled at a rolling release model, I've found it to be more reliable and generally less painful than upgrading between Debian / Ubuntu (for example) releases. 2) pacman is, in my personal opinion, a nicer command line tool than apt-get / apt-cache / aptitude / etc. I do quite like some of the RPM-based tools though (yum, zypper, etc). 3) Adding 3rd party repos in Arch is probably on a par with PPAs, however yaourt (AUR) almost makes it completely unnecessary to ever look for another 3rd party repo again. That's not to say everything is perfect though: Occasionally updates need to be applied manually; being bleeding edge can be a double edged sword sometimes; and I really did prefer the old BSD-inspired rc.conf over the new system of various files scattered around /etc and the much debated systemd. But each to their own on that one.