Hello everyone. If i had the time i would learn arch a lot better but unfortunately i do not but that doesn't stop the desire to run it. I have installed arch before and i remember it was a pain but right now i don't have the time to go through that. I decided to try Antergos the other night and was pretty impressed. I do have some questions though?

1. Is antergos pretty much just arch (just lot easier to install) or is really its own distro? Do they use their own repos or is everything directly pulled from the arch repositories (granted i realize you have access to the AUR)?

2. Are there going to be any issues installing commercial software that generally is built for either debian/ubuntu or redhat distros? For example i have paid for vmware workstation 12 that i use a lot or is there pretty much no worries?

This is more of a statement than a question. I love the idea of a rolling release but i hate it at the same time . I'm not a linux noobie but i'm not anywhere near advanced level either. Course i'm afraid of updates breaking my system and trying to figure it all out. Hopefully updates borking a system is overstated.

Some additional/uncessary info:
For those that are curious why am i wanting to swtich. I'm current running Ubuntu & Ubuntu Mate primarily. I'm a developer and i'm just tired of getting the latest release (not beta) of a lot of software i use. If your lucky hopefully the maintainers of the project maintain their own PPA but in a lot of cases thats not true. You'll find a PPA but then the individual that created it will stop maintaining it and it will go stale. The ubuntu repos are to old for lot of packages i want to use.

To bad their isn't a popular distro out there that has a stable core along with a repo of latest (release) packages. As far as i know it doesn't exist (at least for anything that has some traction) .

1. Yes, it's just a pretty installer for Arch, and a handful of packages, mostly decorations and themes.

2. If it comes with a .tar.gz you'll probably be fine, because it'll probably include a .sh installer. However, another option is there might be builds of vmware already in the AUR if you choose to enable it.

As for your complaint, this is exactly what OpenSuse LEAP is attempting to address. Stable core with up-to-date software in userland.

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Thanks Timothy short, concise and to the point. Excellent reply.