[wz1000]

I use Arch because its the only distro that "Just Works" for me. I like to use the latest version of every software I use, and this is almost impossible on non-rolling-release distros. Installing from source almost always ends up breaking something on distros like Ubuntu.

Also, Arch is predictable. There are no weird quirks and distro-specific patches. Almost everything that is on the system is something that you consciously put there, not something that was decided by the distro-makers.

Finally, the AUR and the Arch wiki are simply amazing. Much has already been said about them and I have nothing to add.

[zxcvcxz]

>Installing from source almost always ends up breaking something on distros like Ubuntu.

Example? I've never once "broken" something by installing a program from source.

[hobarrera]

If you install form source, you lose all the advantages of a package manager (updating, clean uninstallation, dependency management, etc).

pacman (and makepkg) make creating your own package stupidly simple. (not to mention that the official repos + AUR have an immense amount of packages present already).

[cosarara97]

I haven't either, but I've had trouble trying to uninstall them later.