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I started using arch recently and it was certainly intimidating working through the installer, my first install attempt led to me not being able to boot into arch or my windows partition and it took a fair amount of googling to figure out how to get windows back. I think it took me like 3 days to really get it to the point of being productive.

That said I think the arch wiki is truly amazing. I never expected such great documentation from a linux distro. I learned a ton while installing it and I'm still learning constantly. It may be unfriendly in that you'll need to generally configure things yourself before you use them, but the documentation is incredibly friendly.