Dear Arch Developers,

As a new Arch user, I wish to register a complaint. Since setting up my 32-bit install a couple of weeks ago, it's been trouble-free and everything has 'worked as advertised' in the wiki (or at least once I got my AGP NVIDIA card working, but that was a BIOS issue).

As a user who prefers to tinker with my system as much as use it, I find this level of useability and flawless upgrading to be, frankly, boring. I'd much rather have to constantly solve problems, compile from source, and deal with out-of-date packages, extra bloat and obscure, hidden settings - just as I have done with other popular distributions.

I hope that the Arch developers will see their way to amending these annoying design oversights and come to grips with what the average user's expectations are. I therefore request that they abandon this outlandish philosophy of The Arch Way - which seems to me to be an excuse to "keep it simple not stupid", in defiance of established OS norms.

Regards,

sultanoswing