Re: After how much playing around did you try Archlinux?
My own Linux adventure started with Ubuntu 5.10 in November 2005. I spent a lot of time learning and reading numerous reviews and articles about different distros.
At some point, I came across this interview: http://www.osnews.com/story/10142 and my curiosity was piqued.
I did my first successful install of 0.72 "Gimmick" in June / July 2006 and was immediately hooked by pacman and the whole rolling release philosophy.
Shortly after that was the time where every time Ubuntu had an update to the restricted headers that my nVidia drivers would not be recognized and my X would break. After being frustrated by an upgrade to Ubuntu 7.04, I decided to stop dual booting and went exclusively with Arch.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
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