My current isn't vanilla arch, but Endeavour OS, because as an unexperienced user I wanted to have the least trouble while installing, ...
I regret it ever since, because I began with a Plasma desktop and ended up with i3, mainly because of tiling, problems with some utilities, keyboard switching, etc.
In the end, I still love the system, one can get quite minimal with it.
Yep. And I still forgot to mention one thing. It is a 2016 Macbook Pro, which basically means just more work fixing.