>honestly I want something that's as bug free as possible and allows me to get on with coding instead of tinkering around fixing bullshit Arch is the very defi

>honestly I want something that's as bug free as possible and allows me to get on with coding instead of tinkering around fixing bullshit Arch is the very definition of "tinkering around". That's the appeal, that you can (and have to) customize it to what you want. Mint, Ubuntu, and Fedora are all "out of the box" experiences. The old Unix greybeards on the Internet hate them because they're one-size-fits-all, but that sounds like exactly what you're looking for.