Any other derivatives are fine AFAIK, just not Manjaro. There’s quite a bit out there about why you should avoid Manjaro. This source is older, but I’ve linked it before: https://github.com/arindas/manjarno
It’s had a few security issues in the past and last I heard they introduce a lag between packages going into the arch repos and things being available in Manjaro - even for critical security updates.
Any of them that use the Arch repos directly are probably fine. Don’t use Manjaro.
I will say that Arch does now have a guided installer, so you don’t need to do everything manually. Here’s the wiki page for it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall
btw I use arch
How come you say Manjaro is not recommended? I went straight for Arch years ago so I don’t know what’s wrong with the derivatives.
Any other derivatives are fine AFAIK, just not Manjaro. There’s quite a bit out there about why you should avoid Manjaro. This source is older, but I’ve linked it before: https://github.com/arindas/manjarno
It’s had a few security issues in the past and last I heard they introduce a lag between packages going into the arch repos and things being available in Manjaro - even for critical security updates.