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to sum it up: if you use a distro where you have to configure everything yourself it will be hard and things will break

I think that's fair. My take was that the person chose a bleeding edge rolling release to feel 133t but had an unrealistic expectation about stability.

I love ArchLinux, and used it on my primary dev laptop a while back. But you have to expect breaking changes that take some manual maintenance from time to time, and choose your update window accordingly. Maybe not really close to a conference presentation.

There isn't a shortage of distros, and the person could have chosen elsewhere on the spectrum according to needs.

You can try Manjaro, it's a tamed arch. It's what I use. Very happy with it...

More than happy with Arch itself on various machines :) Was just pointing out that it's good to factor in a little time in case troubleshooting is needed. Although that's mitigated by keeping up to date with their news feed...

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