My frustrations with kubuntu have been growling lately as in latest stuff is always available with the aplhas of next release and are prone to bugs which can affect the core work of me. Of course I can run my kubuntu with PPA's which can give me the bleeding edge stuff. What I wanted was bleeding edge and some stability. The moment I tried arch linux in my virtual box I knew I am gonna love it and I am not disappointed.
What arch offers is a simple system which follows the KISS principle.What ever you want configure and the result is a system that is fast and has only stuff that is ac tally needed.
What ever I need right from X, kde I had to configure and install myself.
And arch linux has a vast resources of wiki pages which will instruct us to set up our system the way we and and its complete and almost perfect.
What I am interested most is KDE and I love it. There is a project called chakra project which has their own tweaked kde versions which provides extra eyecandy on top of arch and excellent tools like shaman(package manager).
What I liked is also the fact that arch has rolling release schedule which suites my taste. As soon as a new version appears I can have it no need to wait for the next distribution release or add new PPA's for the same
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