TFIR edition video interview with Greg Kroah-Hartman, responsible for maintaining the stable branch of the Linux kernel, as well as being the maintainer of a number of subsystems of the Linux kernel (USB, driver core) and founder of the Linux driver development initiative (Linux driver project). Greg talked about switching distributions on his production systems. Despite having worked at SUSE/Novell for 2012 years until 7, Greg stopped using openSUSE and now uses Arch Linux as his primary OS on all of his laptops, computers, and even in cloud environments. He also runs several Gentoo, Debian, and Fedora virtual machines on his computer to test some of the tools in user space.
The need to work with the latest version of some program prompted Greg to switch to Arch, and Arch turned out to be what was needed. Greg also knew several Arch developers for a long time and liked
the philosophy of the distribution and the idea of ββcontinuous delivery of updates, which does not require the periodic installation of new releases of the distribution and allows you to always have fresh versions of programs.
It is noted as an important factor that the Arch developers try to stay as close to upstream as possible, without making unnecessary patches, without changing the behavior intended by the original developers, and pushing bug fixes directly into the main projects. The ability to evaluate the current state of programs allows you to get good feedback from the community, quickly catch emerging errors and quickly receive fixes.
Among the advantages of Arch, the neutral nature of the distribution is also mentioned, developed by a community independent of individual companies, and an excellent section with comprehensive and understandable documentation (as an example of a quality squeeze of useful information, with the systemd manual).
Source: opennet.ru