[trevcanhuman]

I’d recommend going for it, and as others have said, be prepared to read the Arch Wiki, a lot. I think what’s most important would be to simply have the guts and the inspiration to keep going, even if you think you’ve lost all hope. Personally, I started out my Linux journey with Ubuntu, then distro hopped and tried PopOS, and Ubuntu-based distro with extra things here and there. Then, I took a Linux course online (for free) and gave me general fundamentals, it advertises as the “The Start from scratch Linux course”. After that and spending tons of time on Reddit and seeing post after post and the memes about ‘I use arch btw’ I decided to try it out. It was definitely fun and a tad time consuming at first, but after that I’ve learned a ton more about Linux and how things work. I’ve only had a broken system a couple times. Again, the ArchWiki is your friend.

[pxc]

I had a similar experience when I was a kid, with Gentoo rather than Arch.

It doesn't stay hard for very long. And when it gets easier, it stays easier basically forever, no matter what distro you use.

Manually configuring everything with Arch is a pretty good way to learn a lot about what goes into a working GNU/Linux system, and not as painful as some people make it out to be.