Linked by Ben Mazer on Wed 15th Oct 2003 20:58 UTC
A few months ago I was a Slackware Junkie. I loved it, and laughed at those who used 'more automatic' distributions (ok, I didn't actually laugh). Then Arch Linux 0.5 came out and I was very intrigued by it. I was getting tired of having to compile updated packages myself. 
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You are forgetting a few things:
1. The GUI/Automatic systems can very often interfere with the standard methods. Ive had issues with this in RH8 and Mandrake 9.1. (Ive never used Suse). Simply put, the GUI tools do more harm than good sometimes.
2. Some people can do things quicker via the CLI. I know I can do many things quicker on the CLI (not everything of course).
3. What does this have to do with my review? You just went off onto a huge tangent.
I stated in my review that this is targeted at the intermediate (which is what I am) to advanced Linux user. I didn't say Arch was better because it did things by hand, and in fact, I said it was better because it AUTOMATED things (pacman/ABS).