I game on Arch too

We're so elite!

I ran Slackware as my daily driver for almost two years

Why? ...How?

Did the same. I pretty much had to redo every single step, sometimes multiple times, because I did not fully understand what I was doing. But I had a running system in the end with everything working as far as I could tell.

Then I immediately formatted everything and installed Endeavor, because I just didn't trust myself not having done anything wrong.

It did help with understanding though. Some things aren't as scary anymore and I understand the arch wiki much better now.

I wouldn't really call it stable, more just stable enough

Nah, that sounds like torture. Anybody willing to have that kind of setup shouldn't be messed with, they're clearly unstable.

Long live EndeavourOS.

Arch takes a lot of manual configuration to make it work, hence providing some bragging rights about using it. Manjaro is a fork that has your typical GUI user-frienly installer that does everything for you, therefore you "proudly using arch" has no substance as you did zero work.

Manjaro is a fork of Arch with the aim to provide a good out-of-the-box experience.

If arch Linux is supposed to be edgy and hard to use or install, Manjaro takes that edgy hard to use image and softens it up into a Ubuntu type distro that is based on arch but tends to run behind on updates by a little bit compared to arch.

Basically they nerd version of Linux stolen valor.

manjaro is based on arch

I use Fedora btw. It'll never go out of fashion, Cos it's never been in fashion