- my hardware is pretty new, support for it is shaky on slower distros
- i prefer to do small, generally reliable updates frequently rather than large, failure prone updates infrequently
- although rare, i have run into the wall once or twice on slow release distros, where a program i want to use needs a newer version of a package than my distro supported
- i like pacman, it's a nice package manager
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