Currently using Arch and loving it. My Linux distro progression has been Ubuntu -> Fedora -> Debian -> Crunchbang -> Arch. I highly recommend starting with eit

Currently using Arch and loving it. My Linux distro progression has been Ubuntu -> Fedora -> Debian -> Crunchbang -> Arch. I highly recommend starting with either Ubuntu or Crunchbang and then moving to Arch. Using Arch will force you to learn much more about Linux and will make you appreciate many of the things that you take for granted.