to be fare I have not extensively tested this distro.
chakra uses pacman which is perhaps my favourite package manager. I like vanilla setups and while chakra reminds of arch because of pacman; it is not vanilla. I had to remove the xorg.conf file to get my Intel chipset recognised by the default open drivers.

my biggest gripe with chakra and the main reason I am not continuing use further is because of bundles. bundles are a unique idea to my knowledge. the theory is that by seperating 'inferior' gtk packages from the rest of the packages and base, you retain a clean system which is slightly faster.
bundles are a way to conform to this theory by installing gtk packages to your home directory.
I and others I've seen on the chakra forums have had issues installing bundles. Firefox refused to download and the gimp did not work correctly.v
bundles make things overly complicated in my view. I made a philosophical desision to move to chakra because I was sick of the modulization of rpm and deb based distros, and now I'm encountering worse fragmentation in chakra despite such a great plain package manager.