Them’s fightin’ words, son. XMonad is where it’s at, of course. 
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XMonad has better keyboard controls, I3 has better generic mouse/keyboard controls.
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I’m not 100% sure but I think Antergos is to Arch what the xBuntu variety (e.g. Lubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.) are to Ubuntu, that is to say, it’s the same code base, same build with different bells and whistles (which is why Antergos can, and does, use Arch’s repositories).
These same reasoning is, as far as I understood it, why Manajaro is not compatible with Arch’s repositories and maintains repos of its own: it’s an Arch-clone, but with too many changes to the core that break the 100% compatibility.
Nice article.
I am wondering, have you ever had any problem after system update on Arch ? If so is it easy to fix without backup? 
PS
If I want to have different versions of postgres I just download appropriate docker container, so I think this is not issue with other distros.
I am not using long enough to have experienced problems, but exactly one of the benefits of Arch is that different from major distros, with major system upgrades, Arch employs a “rolling upgrade” scheme, where packages keep being upgrade to the latest stable all the time. So there is no such a thing as a big upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 16.04 or Fedora 24 to 25, for example, Arch is always “latest”.
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I had a problem once in 15 months - I can’t imagine how but an intel microcode update got somehow corrupted - so after the update the system failed to boot. I put a fresh Arch ISO on a USB drive booted from it and downgraded the file. Rebooted successfully - ran the upgrade again (i.e. the file in the package repository wasn’t at fault) and everything was back in working order.
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Linux Mint 18 (Standard/Cinnamon Edition) - which is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- easy to use, totally batteries included
- on a similar base as my servers (given you use Ubuntu servers and the current LTS)
- wide availability of FAQs and PPAs etc. due to Ubuntu base
Was the first Linux distribution I ever installed on one of my computers back with Linux Mint 7 - never had to go anywhere else
I’m using Manjaro with i3wm.
Uhh, aren’t there hash checks to prevent issues like that like deb’s use?
I don’t know how the corruption happened and why it wasn’t detected - maybe some heisenbug with the Samsung SSD (and/or my partitioning) manifested itself.
I actually tried Linux Mint first - but it would regularly freeze at the boot screen or a bit later in the session. Arch let me build up the installation bit-by-bit - which pointed me towards the dual graphics being the problem. Once I knew that, I could blacklist the default driver and install Bumblebee instead.
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Which Linux Mint was that? Newer editions (I think 17.2+ or something ) come with default nvidia dual/switch graphics support. Clement purchased a laptop with an nvidia optimus as he got tired of the bugs and decided to fix it and keep it tested
Linux Mint 17 Qiana KDE Edition
Another thing I ended up appreciating with Arch is that you only end up with what you ask for. I’m finding more and more that these “batteries included” / “ready-and-all-your-can-eat-buffet” type packages are by their nature bloated and still don’t include what I’m looking for.
I love Xubuntu Works great with dual monitors and it always feels snappy.
Ubuntu with Unity is a disaster as it doesn’t work well with two monitors, I always wonder if Unity devs have any.
Kubuntu works ok, but it’s too much bling for me.
I avoid Mint because it feels like there’s not much code review going on, and there was a reported hack.
Fedora uses Gnome 3 and the Xfce spin feels like someone did a “dnf install @xfce-desktop-environment” and slapped the result on an ISO, although it does feel faster and more stable than Ubuntu.
I’m a Linux noob so those are just my observations
Funtoo Linux Intel64-nehalem funtoo-stable standard from stage 1 if you know what I mean 
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Ubuntu 16.04 at work and home. Only because I try to code and keep my stuff on same distro and version which I have on servers 
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Elementary OS Loki
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thanks guys ultimately i switched to antergos OS based on Arch linux. so far so good
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