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Any Arch-based distribution gives you a ton of control to do whatever you want with it as long as you know what you're doing. Having used Linux myself for 5 years, nothing beats Arch-based for me. Sure, I started with Manjaro (a big mistake for a beginner in my opinion), though I used around four or five distros (including the now defunct Arco Linux while editing for CoculesNation on YouTube), and stuck to CachyOS (same with my producer, actually).
Replying to myself 7 months later.
I'm no longer using CachyOS due to systemd, and the potential that they would end up doing digital ID. Instead, I switched to Artix (and so had my producer) with OpenRC as the init system. The two of us made this decision based upon wanting to control our machines, and not letting IBM do that (through Wayland, systemd, and other things they want to shove down our throats unwillingly).