linuxmemes

I love seeing people enjoy arch and I'm not discouraging anyone from trying it. Ubuntu kinda sucks but most people coming from windows don't feel comfortable doing anything in the terminal. Debian drivitaives and fedora are probably a safer bet.

If it wasn't for the CLI first approach for arch and the dangers using potentially unstable or malicious packages in the aur I'd recommend arch derivatives to everyone. It's exceedingly rare but I have been left with broken packages a couple times in my first year of using arch. The aur isn't vetted or controlled to the degree the official arch repositories and could leave them open to downloading malicious code if they don't check the package first. Literally anyone can put whatever they want on the aur until someone notices.

With Debian derivatives I find the Debian wiki along with the forms of your distro a 1 2 punch that can be almost as good as archlinux wiki and communities. I do agree with you the information for issues you might have on arch is everywhere. That comes from a crowd of enthusiast and they typically, understandably expect a level of understanding and independence that you don't find with average users (sorry average user).