@Pixificial Debian sid is also a great choice. I've using it for about 3~4 years now. Personally using laptop for everyday use and sometimes some statistical tasks. Some would say that sid stands for "still in development" and therefore not recommended, but during the years I've only broken the system once due to a systemd upgrade which kept me out out normal login to desktop. But it was solved just by downgrade systemd to previous version and there was no data loss. I personally prefer Debian because many third party apps provide deb packages but no binary packages for Arch. AUR is great but compiling large application is time consuming and not friendly for old computers.