[Novalug] Arch linux impressions?

[Sean McGowan]

>> Anyone running it/run it for some time that have comments? I am
>> interested in comments about how well it worked for you as a
>> workstation, packages available for it (I like to avoid messing
>> with the native package scheme as much as possible), keeping up to
>> date, patches over time etc.
Just to second what everyone else was saying, I have put together a few 
different arch builds, but I switched to it full time three months ago.  
archwiki is awesome.  the install is rather easy and straight forward.  
The install docs are in /usr/share/... too, so if you aren't sitting 
near another computter it is not a big deal.  I really like pacman 
better than I do yum or apt-get.  as a workstation, it depends on what 
you are looking to do.  I have (in the past) used eclipse, anjuta, 
kdevelop and have had them running w/o issue.  I am running kde 4.8, 
which I am starting to like.  there is a ton of stuff in the AUR, but I 
have avoided it so far.  i have yet to run in to any problems with the 
rolling updates, although three monthes is not that long.  so far I am 
sold on arch and don't think about what it would be like if i had chosen 
aanother distro, as i did w/ fedora and ?[uU]buntu.