It's great if you want the opposite of hand-holdy. The Arch docs boldly ask you to solve your own problems before asking for help. That said, I loved Slackware

It's great if you want the opposite of hand-holdy. The Arch docs boldly ask you to solve your own problems before asking for help. That said, I loved Slackware and FreeBSD when I ran them. Arch has more in common with those OSes than the Debian or Red Hat derived Linux distros. If you have the patience to learn, you will likely break it in just like Derek describes.