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I run arch on my laptop and you are definitely right. It took me days to configure everything and that required having a 2nd computer available to search things. However, it did teach me a lot about terminal and how things worked compared to installing Ubuntu. Another downfall is when something breaks during an upgrade. However, 90% of the time the solution is on the Arch news site.

There are a lot of reason why I love it though. Very quick boot time on a spinning disk and small memory foot print when running. I run awesome wm (window tiling manager) which is great for coding with a small laptop screen.

I am not sure if I would run it on a production server though.