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On 29/08/13 21:19, Daniel Robinson wrote: Ha! At least someone laughed - probably a fellow Arch victim! Craziest and worst distro ever unleashed on the world - all the elitism and perverse stupidity of Gentoo, but with none of the elegance, configurability* or heritage. Where the answer to every single damn problem on the forum is "read the announcements". Yeah, because I really want to have to open a browser and point it manually at a website before issuing "pacman -Syu" daily. On my headless server. But I'll have to just in case there's an unexpected announcement of "we are about to enforce a mandatory upgrade from init > systemd which will utterly destroy your system" which the damned update utility won't bother warning you about. At least Gentoo will have the decency to warn you about running "eselect news read" before catastrophically reconfiguring your box. I hate almost everything about Arch: pacman sucks, the AUR repository system sucks, the forums suck. The only good thing I have to say about it is that it boots preposterously fast. I love the way that they randomly deprecate stuff (ifconfig > ip) and then just casually post in their stupid website "announcements" section - "yeah, hey ho, we've probably just broken all your scripts LOL". I love the way they've only just got their heads around package signing, and it's still not mandatory (morons). My non-testing, i.e., allegedly "stable" Arch VM overwrote it's own grub2 configs again today, resulting in me having to boot it from the prompt and fix it manually. Any Arch users (Kai is a fan I think) want to defend their distro of choice? Convince me I'm wrong please, because I'd love to put a bullet in it. Don't even get me started on yaourt. Regards * is that a word? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq