I'll second that. Despite the warnings of "it's a lot of work to maintain!", I've only had one minor glitch which was my own fault - I didn't read the update news before doing a full update. When that happened, the steps to recover were all clearly laid out in the very excellent arch wiki.

My experience with ubuntu was that when something went wrong, there was no easy way to deduce exactly what had happened, or what to do to fix it. The forums were full of similar symptoms with different causes.

I've also become much more knowledgeable about the way linux, and OSes in general, work thanks to the closer relationship arch makes you foster with your machine.