Upgrading a year-old Arch Linux installation
Tonight I had some fun dealing with Arch Linux. Some of my friends like to joke about Gentoo (which I've been using for more than four years on my laptops now) being a Tamagotchi. While there might be some truth in those jokes, my own experience indicates that Arch Linux (which has a significantly higher number of users among the people I know) has become orders of magnitude worse in this respect, at least during the past couple of years.