I use Arch also, as a desktop. I like: * Rolling releases which mostly doesn't break things * Solid package management * Doesn't handhold too much, while

I use Arch also, as a desktop. I like: * Rolling releases which mostly doesn't break things * Solid package management * Doesn't handhold too much, while still not being too much of a pain to get a desktop going * Doesn't start services because you install them (Debian/Ubuntu) * Doesn't try and force snaps and an essentially proprietary store on you (Ubuntu) * Still popular enough to have momentum behind it (problems are Google-able) I don't really like: * systemd. It's almost a necessary evil at this point, but not quite I also use Alpine on my personal server. The package manager is blazing fast, and it uses OpenRC, which I prefer over systemd. I know the musl memory allocator isn't all the fast, which bothers me, but not enough to rebuild it with a different distro. busybox is also a bit bothersome sometimes (/etc/network/interfaces syntax is a bit limited, for example).