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Exactly! EndeavourOS, my first Arch distro. It's nice and easy to use, although Arch package updates are very different from say Debian. They don't differentiate between security fixes and typo fixes so you're either updating all the time like me or updating less frequently and being vulnerable. And then there's also the issue of rarely broken bleeding edge packages; I had to pin a bunch to prevent upgrading from KDE 5 to 6 for a while.