My $.02: As others have noted, there is some level of intimidation that contributed to me using Antergos. That being said, I did a reinstall a few months ago an

My $.02: As others have noted, there is some level of intimidation that contributed to me using Antergos. That being said, I did a reinstall a few months ago and decided I would do it "for real" this time. I followed the Arch wiki for each step, learned a huge amount about the way the OS installs, the drive partitioning works, and made it to the bootloader step. And that's where I ran into issues. Once I rebooted, I couldn't get the bootloader to load arch. I spent about two days trying different methods from the Arch Wiki before I decided that a) I had learned a huge amount and b) I didn't need the "geek cred" that came with a vanilla install of Arch. I went back to Antergos and am quite happy. I manually build packages from AUR, read the wiki when I need to setup something and am happy with it. I use i3 currently, so perhaps I'll give the install another go, but I may just switch to Manjaro. Happy to hear any tips, though!