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When I am done doing whatever I have been doing, I can quickly switch to WMII and visualize the aggregate product of my work, specifically coding.
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In my experience, Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu are good for a general audience. Had I installed Arch coming directly from Windows, I might have succeeded in configuring the files and stumbling around what I now know as Vi, but I would not have grasped the concepts involved in installing or administering the system. In contrast, Ubuntu guides the user through virtually all essential processes with a preconfigured GUI.

I personally prefer Arch, coming from Ubuntu 8.04. One thing that heavily influences this preference and perspective is my prior knowledge and understanding of Vi. In general, the modularity, explicitness in file structure, and "building blocks" mentality suits more focused uses of the computer. In Ubuntu, as in Windows, you can do all sorts of complex things rather gracefully, but the mentality reflected in the selection of utilities, programs, and literature are directed to a more unfocused style of computing, or in other words, for "everyday use."

Since I am philosophically and analytically predisposed to the point of madness, Arch works better for me because I can create potentially very complex experimental systems for scientific use, like computational linguistics, machine-learning, coding, systems administration. Arch is more of a tool -- a "technology" in the true sense. If you install a minimalistic windows manager like WMII on top of Arch, the picture starts to come together. With moderate fluency in Vi, it is a visual and mentally-esthetic pleasure to switch between multiple terminals for editing text or visualizing text-based or symbol-based applications. I enjoy the speed and simplicity and Pacman isn't all that cumbersome for a learner. When I am done doing whatever I have been doing, I can quickly switch to WMII and visualize the aggregate product of my work, specifically coding. It's like being able to look at something both from the inside and the outside, being able to make more of a prediction as to what corresponds to what in each dimension.

Ubuntu has been great, but it is more difficult to disassemble to see how it works, partly because it is cluttered and partly because the installation process doesn't require the tenacity to learn.

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I'm just making the same comparison, I use Debian lenny and on one laptop I've installed Arch to compare.

I'm skeptical that wireless works "out of the box" in Arch considering that wireless-tools and wpa_supplicant have to be installed by the user, and either configured with text editor or have a frontend like networkmanager or wicd. In Debian everything was ready, I just had to add ipw2200 firmware to /lib/firmware/. That firmware is now free so in future releases wifi should genuinely work out of the box with wpa, wep, vpn etc. With a wireless adapter with free driver and free firmware it already works ootb.

out of the box: well in Debian using the regular installer you get a complete DE ootb, in Arch all I got out of the box was a shell, the pleasure of vi and a lot of work to do.

Some of your points seem more to do with familiarity than anything else. There's no need to use Ubuntu packages for *anything* in Debian, you can get all the fonts you need from Debian repos including ms-ttf.

Adding non-free packages is as simple as adding non-free to the default repo line in /etc/apt/sources.list. Adding community contributed stuff is as easy as adding contrib to the same line (& contrib packages are supported by Debian security updates). Patent encumbered multimedia stuff is available from debianmultimedia repo, unofficial but maintained by a Debian developer.

Debian does require some terminal use, you certainly can't do everything via gui yet.

It's unusual to *need* to compile anything in Debian thanks to the enormous repositories but there are occasions when you might want to. I generally compile from source to get newest versions of certain applications but otherwise no real need. I can only think of two applications that I had to compile myself, coverfinder and emelfm2.

Modularised packages (separate -dev): I'm in two minds about this. It is a pita initially to install all the dev tools in Debian, but on the other hand they take up a lot of space and if you don't need them it's a waste of bandwidth and disk space. Ideally in a binary distro a regular user would never need them anyway but of course real life is different so Arch's vanilla approach is a benefit overall.

Speed: I suspect that pacman *is* faster than APT, however the Arch mirrors are noticably slower and fewer than Debian's and sometimes time out. But pacman is certainly an impressive tool, I like it a lot.

As for overall speed for the two distros I'll be doing some tests to compare. I'm not ready yet as still installing stuff onto Arch so the system is comparable to Debian (broadly same applications and services and DE). I've read so many claims but never seen real world data so I'm doing my own