I have got myself into a couple of really good messes with Arch which were educational and it really did impress me when it was running well.
It does require some deeper learning, which is worthwhile in its own right - at least once.
However, I keep running into hardware support issues - or maybe my own poor hardware choices :P
I spent quite a few months using Antergos, for fun on my main workstation.
It kinda belongs in this list, if Manjaro is being included given that they have preset installers.
I even installed and enjoyed quite a few GUI games on it which was a departure for me.
Ultimately the Antergos team got a few batch updates tangled in succession which required some digging for the resolutions and more and more user intervention as they were not able to generate the fix through normal updates and that just irritated me enough to go back to Ubuntu - yet again. I can fix things myself but I just don't have the time to mess around with it.
Previous experiences with Manjaro went spectacularly badly, although that was in it's early days.
However, among the CDs on my desk today I have a DVD with "Manjaro" and a date on it waiting for install and a good tyre kicking - among several others.
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