>>1236553I'm on arch right now and it's not compicated at all.
Arch has the Arch Build System and pacman, but after those it's literally the same as any other linux distro. There is very little in Arch that actually separates it from anything else, it's one of the most vanilla experiences you can have.
Which means that the Arch wiki is a great general purpose linux wiki together with the Gentoo wiki.
In terms of what is already set uo, and in terms of how difficult setting things up yourself is, Arch is really really simple. You've just got to read.
Arch has it's problems too, mostly relating to it being bleeding edge with unstable packages. Once, I had firefox suddenly fail to build because sed, a coreutil text editing too, had updated recently and started properly enforcing it's syntax, causing the firefox build script to fail. I had to pull an old version of sed from the archives to build firefox with while waiting for someone else to fix the script itself. Things like that happen.
Arch or Gentoo are the ones I'd suggest you take a look at if you really want to learn Linux. Gentoo will be more in-depth, arch will get you familiar with basics. When you're familiar enough with the basics, the distro no longer matters.
