I had arch, it never broke on me for no reason. Sometimes the pacman wouldn't update because of some weird keyring issue, but that was about it. Then my Logitech mouse randomly stopped working and I tried everything. Then I hopped distros to see if it worked better and that didn't help. Now I'm on opensuse
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It was my second distro after mint. It's very fun to learn as long as you got time to kill.

this guy is so damn right i cant argue. arch isnt hard to use, whats hard is experiencing different things and learning
Arch is good but tbh if you arent prepared for having to keep everything up to date and if ur a beginner in general u are not gonna have a good time
Larger downstream distros like manjaro (and steamOS for that matter) can be stable. I wouldn’t call manjaro a beginners distro though, like mint would be (No Linus, there’s no apt in manjaro) but it’s very daily-driveable.
Although, if you’re most people, just stay away from rolling release distros. There’s so little benefit unless you’re running bleeding edge hardware…
If it‘s your first time trying linux, go with mint. It’s stable and almost every tutorial will work for you. If you know your way around a terminal already, the choice is all yours. I personally like Fedora.