@kerneloops
I've used Arch since 2009, and while I did plenty of distro-hopping, I always came back to Arch.
My day job does not involve computers, so I have the luxury to mess around with hardware and OS's, and don't need specific software to do my job.
I dabble with webdesign/admin so I'll mostly run FileZilla, GIMP, Sublime Text etc. so nothing especially demanding. I'm not too big into PC gaming, but Steam runs well. Occasionally I'll run Windows on VirtualBox, for something specific like Photoshop (you could run it obviously via Wine as well), or Dreamweaver.
From my standpoint, where Arch truly excels is 1) speed/overhead, 2) ability to customize everything, 3) package management.
The days of constant instability with graphics drivers, kernel upgrades going bad etc. are (hopefully) over, and I haven't had really any issues in the last year or two. Due to Arch's bleeding edge nature, you are well-served to make frequent backups though.
I truly love the Arch User Repos (AUR) where literally everthing is available.
Wrt cryptos, I run Armory wallet, and other than a problem compiling 0.9-beta (it relied on some libraries Arch had already updated), the current beta is working well.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend Arch for a production environment, just because there's still the risk, albeit small nowadays, of having some library, or a driver misbehaving.
Awesome. PC gaming generally is linux's weakness but I've always heard good thing of arch. The Arch User Repo sounds very compelling and I think if I can pick up a one or two skills that transfer to arch from the course, I'll try it for a month or so. Any hiccups foreseen with dual booting other distros? Like slackware typically uses LiLo and is incompatible with Grub.
