Hey, manual installation might teach you a lot about Linux, but at least installing my system took less than an hour and I have a functioning system with everything I need set up! While you Arch people almost always spent over an hour and a lot of effort, just to get a TTY booting, and you’re still missing things even once you do get your choice of desktop environment and your graphical programs installed and running!

(Tbh, I kinda want the AUR sometimes. But, like, I don’t need it, Arch has a reputation for being a pain and forcing you to really learn about Linux by causing you to constantly need to use odd terminal commands to fix problems, and most of my distro hopping urges in general are some combination of “think I understand Linux way more than I do” and “I don’t really want a new distro, I just want a new desktop environment.” And the funny thing is that so much of what actually seems interesting and new to me beyond just a different DE that’s shiny and new, is based on Debian. Lol.)