Funny... I find it exceedingly easy to use. :)

I've been using it for over two years now. Makes a great workstation OS. You get the latest releases and all their attended bug fixes, security updates, and yes.. new bugs.

But at least in the Python world, there's still virtualenv, buildout, pip, etc. I rarely install system packages for libs anyway. I don't really see how this is going to bring down the house. At the least if it does work out well and makes enough people happy, there will be more reason for people to hurry up the transition to py3 already.

(An aside: as much as I disagree with py3 forgoing practicality for purity, I wish the transition would be over already so we can get on gettin on).

I noticed the news post a day before my latest update, so I was prepared too. One should always follow package source's and general news of the distribution one uses.

Arch has the least amount of breakage of any distro I've ever used. Slack, Redhat, Gentoo, all of them would occasionally shit all over themselves, and it would sometimes be tricky to fix. The couple times that Arch did that, it was really easy to fix, because things were "normal". The Arch philosophy seems to be to defer to upstream as much as possible, which makes things easy to fix.

You can't always decide something is good or bad based on number of people running to IRC asking for help. Well let me make another "tongue in cheek" -- many o f them should be told to RTFM and read their distro's announcements". Don't support lazy folks who fail to do that.