A little while ago I wrote about the temptations of using Arch Linux instead of Gentoo. About 5 months after writing it I only have Arch Linux machines around me. On my laptop, Gentoo is replaced with Arch. On my dad's PC, Debian is replaced with Arch. And on my workstation I have installed Arch Linux too.

I'm a satisfied Gentoo user for a couple of years now. The current installation is reaching an age of 3.5 years and, despite some disk fragmentation, things run all fine. I really like the flexible aspects of this distribution, allowing you to have overlays with custom patches and having use flags to keep cruft away from your system. Of course there's a price to pay, and everyone knows what it is: those damned compile times. But it's a price I'm willing to pay for having a system on which I have total control.

The last couple of weeks I was not that productive for KDE. The week around the KDE Four Multimedia Meeting I barely touched my laptop, just had a little burn out. There was plenty of time left to enjoy some books in the meantime.