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I'm running the nVidia chip exclusively, but when I get around to it, I'll probably switch, as I'm running an openbox desktop that just doesn't need that kind of graphics acceleration. I have yet to figure out a painless way of switching between the two, but that's probably because I haven't really worked on it much.
The city highlighted in black is the reference city.
Blue circles indicate cities where people are looking for housing in the reference city (i.e. they are maybe thinking of moving into the reference city)
Red circles indicate cities where people in the reference city are looking for housing (i.e. they are maybe thinking of moving away from the reference city to the cities with red circles)
So for San Francisco, it is not surprising that many people are looking to move out of the city into nearby cities (like Oakland) and vice versa. The same is true for New York.
More interestingly, a number of people in Chicago, Houston and DC are looking for housing in San Francisco, but few people in San Francisco are looking for housing in those cities.
One weakness of the graphic is that it makes it difficult to tell the net effect of inbound and outbound housing searches. Ideally, there would be a third option next to "Inbound Searches" and "Outbound Searches," that showed a net effect for each city using both red and blue circles.
Also, different reference cities are not comparable using the graphic. For instance, selecting SF as the reference city shows moderate inbound and outbound searches from NYC. But select NYC as the reference city and you'll see that SF doesn't make the top 10 cities for outbound or inbound searches and therefore isn't even shown. As a result, you can tell that there are more searches from NY to LA than to SF, but it is difficult to tell how great that difference is.
Maybe it is more likely that they use arch because it's the tool that meets their needs and that they enjoy using...
Many people look at a particular OS, decide that it's not right for what they need or want, and jump straight to "that OS sucks because it doesn't meet my needs." It should be fairly obvious how that is just a silly thing to think.
Different OSs meet different needs. We should strive to understand our own needs and to understand our options so we can make the optimal choice for our particular situation.
As an arch user myself, I like (and can afford the time) to tweak and fiddle with my setup so that it's just right for my workflow. Another reason I use it, is that it's a great way to learn more about linux.
Arch probably is not right for people who need lots of stability or don't have the time to fiddle and tweak the OS. And that's ok. There are many other options they can use. It sounds like Debian is the right fit for you and that's awesome.