I had a really good Manjaro build a few years ago on a laptop and it got hosed somehow to where it wouldn't go into X. It would just pop to a command line and i tried everything and couldn't recover it. That's been my only experience with an Arch derivitive.
But I have used more than 20 Distros. I remember around 2006 I had a Gentoo build that felt elite and then that laptop over heated. 😂