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It's not even for casual/experienced users either. "New", "untested", and "bleeding edge" tend to be keywords for things in development still. You don't want to use something like that as your day-to-day operating system unless you are actually willing to put in the time to maintain it. For most users, that's simply unrealistic. I do, however, applaud Arch users. I've used it before and eventually I switched because it took too much time to maintain.

Once past the initial setup:

Code:

pacman -Syyu

That's literally the only thing I've been doing for months to "maintain" my system. Could you elaborate on that as I'm not sure what you mean. I'm just wondering what exactly you had trouble with as I have not experienced any issues in my half a year of usage regarding "maintaining my system" or buggy "untested" packages (although I do not know of any vendors that don't throughly test their product before releasing an official update). You guys are making it seem like the official arch repos are being populated with alpha and beta versions of products, and thats just not true for the overwhelming majority of available packages. When an update is released, it's simply made available.

Between rolling releases and the amount of time it takes to compile, configure, and update, several hours have passed.

Several hours? Are you using a toaster? Updating my kernel takes me 5 minutes tops.