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Don't bother with Arch, it's too finicky, don't bother with Ubuntu it's too corporate
Arch requires a commitment to troubleshooting, but i can count on one hand the times an upgrade broke my 10+ year installation - and even then it's because i ignored the update notes.
I agree it's not super beginner friendly, but if you want to tinker and get your system set up just the way you like it, there's no finer distro
The arch wiki is also some of the greatest software documentation in existence
I literally moved from Debian to Arch because Debian had more broken shit (because old software) that was harder to fix.
Archwiki is love. I recommend arch because if you follow the excellent installation instructions on the wiki you will know
But if you just want to like use stuff and not understand a system or make any choices about it then fedora is probably fine.
Debian is great if the things you want to do have been a thoroughly solved problem for a few years already. Debian is a pain if you are trying to get something working which only recently became possible / practical. I love Debian, but I only use it on machines which don't have time for dedicated maintenance beyond
apt update; apt upgrade.On my desktop I run Gentoo (high maintenance, highly customizable). On my laptop I run Fedora (lower maintenance, but still a LOT more churn than Debian). On everything else, it's Debian (practically no maintenance. Software versions are locked in place for like two years at a time and these 'dist-upgrades' are the only situation where you need to dedicate any time to it).