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You may hear some people extolling the virtues of Arch. Arch mainly brings a wide variety of ways to shoot yourself in the foot as a new user, and should not be used on a machine which you NEED to work. The official stance of the Arch maintainers is "Abandon all hope all ye who enter here" and while they have above average documentation on their wiki, that is where available support begins and ends. Manjaro is scuffed Arch and should be avoided at all costs.

Oh my goodness yes, I second everything said here a hundred times. Arch is for highly experienced Linux nerds who enjoy living on the bleeding edge of beta software and spending many hours per week fixing the problems that they are guaranteed to run into. Do not use Arch unless you really know what you're doing. And if you really know what you're doing, you're probably smart enough to avoid Arch.

Yeah, Arch is a hell-distro. I'd argue it's the least usable option, and should only be used on a machine you never intend to use for anything other than messing around with a self-breaking linux install. Truly an option for that spare laptop catching dust in a closet somewhere.

Also, I've had pretty good luck lately with getting Kubuntu to download and install proprietary nvidia drivers, and have switched back from Neon as a result of that and a few other little gripes related to not wanting to be on the LTS version of Ubuntu. Last few installs on different systems with Nvidia drivers have all worked. YMMV of course though.