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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First of all, vera and ms core fonts are both available in debian. Apt-get install msttcorefonts ttf-bitstream-vera should do the trick (for unstable).
Also, it would have helped had the author actually mentioned what was wrong with apt. In my experience it smoothly and easily upgrades and installs just about anything. And it's simple to recompile debian packages specifically for your system (though technicallyn that has little to do with apt).
If this arch linux is better than debian, it should have been mentioned why exactly. Saying 'it doesn't suck' is not exactly something that'll get me to switch, because in my experience debian doesn't suck either.