[hsbaut76]

I went the opposite direction, Ubuntu to arch.

I think that archlinuxs advantage is that it's minimalistic, the philosophy is simple, you know what is running on your computer and generally why.

Tinkering with arch itself isn't that time consuming because the package management is so incredibly good, along with the AUR and wiki. These are invaluable.

I really do think the difficulty is overhyped though, it's really not hard at all.