Antergos. I picked Antergos because I wanted strong access to the Arch resources like the Wiki and AUR. But at the time I didn't have enough time in the day to

Antergos. I picked Antergos because I wanted strong access to the Arch resources like the Wiki and AUR. But at the time I didn't have enough time in the day to set up vanilla Arch. I'd thought that my experience running Gentoo a few years back would ha e helped me with that, but it didn't help me with getting Arch set up tbh. Antergos was a good compromise because I had previously used Manjaro, and found it just a little too far from vanilla Arch at times. As far as customisation goes, I first switched it to i3wm which was a solid experience, but then moved to xmonad. Beyond that I guess just the normal stuff like installing lots of applications and getting a nice Emacs environment set up by hand. As far as concerns go. My main concern is that the OS hide as little as possible while also not making me deal with super low-level stuff unless I really want to. So Arch is perfect for that. I want to be able to build things up just the way I want them, and create my own personal cohesive system. So again, Arch is a perfect choice there. After that it's the level of community support for Arch that has made me finally give in and love it, despite the fact that I resisted for so long.