Most people don't experience this I'm sure but here it goes:

An update about a month ago on my Arch install rendered it unable to wake from suspend I got a kernel update and a systemd update on the same Syua. I couldn't fix for some reason by reverting to the system so after futzing for a day or so I decided to change distros. I installed CENTOS 6.5 and proceeded to break it then 7 but it has no netflix. So I went to Slack was generally not happy but at least it worked. Then on to Gentoo built it twice and still have it on a hard drive but I've built it wrong twice and it won't connect to a network, so I went back to CENTOS 6.5 I uninstalled all the stuff I don't want turned off all the daemons I don't need and got all the media consumption stuff set-up. It's dependable has everything I need and want installed and it all works but it's boring much like OS X and that drives me nuts. The repo structure is too rigid and the customization options too scarce even though I don't customize I feel confined. In the last two weeks I've reinstalled Arch five or so times hoping that something has updated and fixed but to no avail but it seems senseless to discard an OS that does everything I want for hope. I know no one here can fix this stuff for me especially because there is no real problem but I just need to get it off my chest.

It's just an OS jeez

Tried OpenSUSE?

It's more up-to-date than CentOS but not so much so that it's running bleeding edge unstable software (see Fedora). Reliability has always been good for me, and you shouldn't have any issues running Netflix through Chrome.

Why couldn't CentOS 7 do netflix?

No pipelight and I can't get it running in the new Chrome even with the "good" UA

Odd - well I haven't had any issues so far with netflix on OpenSUSE 13.1 with Chrome beta.

ATI video card ? - if so the suspend issue may be a result of some regressions that came in on a 3.15 update.
So it may ultimately affect all distros. Suspend can be made to work, but last I tried hibernate was still broken on Fedora on this laptop.

Nope Nvidia with the binary..

Tried building i686 with the binary
Tried with nouveau x64
Tried nouveau in i686
Tried using lts with nouveau
Tried again before I typed the post in the normal configuration x64 and nVidia binary

Interesting side note I tried installing Manjaro and it won't suspend at all and it's on 3.10 where Arch is on 3.16 2

It can't be the nVidia binary because I'm using it (340.xxx) on the CENTOS install and I believe 7 is on 3.10 also so it doesn't seem to be the kernels nor the nVidia drivers

I know that pacman saves all previously installed packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*.tar.xz. I also know that it is possible to install one of those older packages manually. So you could go back and manually reinstall the older versions of the packages.

However, I don't know how it reacts when you run another pacman -Syu. Will it update the pacages since newer ones are available, or will it keep the old ones because you installed from file, not the repo?

EDIT: Take a look at this Arch Wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ading_packages