> What is that killer feature that Arch offers, apart from being rolling release?
Apart from that its pacman, just sick of the apt-get madness.
And generally having far less default crap on you system.
Arch's killer feature, in my mind, is the Arch User Repository[1]. If the package isn't included in Arch's binary repos, the "yaourt" command will build the package (often from git) via a user-contributed script. You can set the make options to Gentoo's suggested -march for your CPU, and build really optimized packages. I'm experiencing <5 second boot times, lower RAM usage, and snappier WINE/WineASIO performance.
Before installing Arch, I was a die-hard Kubuntu/KXstudio[2] user. Now I have the ability to build all the KXstudio packages from git (Cadence, Carla, and Claudia make JACK the greatest thing ever), without all the Ubuntu/Debian cruft underneath.
Another benefit (post-snowden) is that Arch is not an incorporated entity in any of the "Five Eyes" countries. Julian Assange has come out to publicly state knowledge of intentional flaws being added to both Open Source/Free Software projects, and specifically namedrops Debian as compromised. The threat vectors one should analyze are which governments would have access to which corporations. RedHat is a registered corporation in Delaware, USA. Canonical is registered in City of London. If one pays attention to Moxie Marlinspike's convergence demo at DEFCON 19, you can see how it'd be trivial for a government agency such as GCHQ/CCSE/NSA to spoof Canonical's or RedHat's SSL certificates. Gentoo and Arch have no corporate influences, and thus are the only relatively safe Linux distributions left, IMO.
So, AUR, Advanced customization, and potentially increased security are bigger reasons, for me, to switch to Arch than pacman.
I don't get this, you're supposed to decide whether you like somebody or not with _only_ one picture while writing unique descriptions that could give you some insights to his or her personality is actively discouraged?
I mean sure, this would work great for one night stands, but I think bars with drunk people are superior in this aspect.
This is insane. All that's done here is seeking a scapegoat that can be hold responsible for everything. This is nonsense, the American people are responsible for the decisions of the very same people they voted for, and nobody else. She never has held a democratically elected office you say? That doesn't matter either, the system which allowed this to happen was.
Now I'm not saying dropping dropbox is an unreasonable decision, privacy concerns come to mind, but what's one of the options the article suggests as replacement? Ah yes Microsoft, one of the most "evil" companies in existence. So we trade one evil for another, but wait there is more! What's about the companies that made you mobile phone, clothing, car and the other thousand things you use in your daily life? Well, if you finished checking every single one of them, and dropping products from the "evil" ones then please send me an email with a list of goodies that can be considered ethical. Or wait, you'll not have a computer any more at this point.
