Just read DHH's blog and then you may quickly realise that
other distributions may be a better choice. There is a
difference between "opinionated" and ... whatever the content
criteria is for DHH nowadays to write stuff on his blog.
Younger DHH was more impressive than the TechBro aged later
variant, in my personal opinion.
Arch is in general a good base though - I mostly use Manjaro
as base, then customize it via a ton of scripts and compile
about 99% from source anyway, using an extended set of ruby
scripts (a bit similar to homebrew, but one big difference is
that I wanted versioned AppDirs like in GoboLinux; my scripts
originated from GoboLinux's philosophy since I did not want
to use shell scripts but retain versioned AppDirs. Manjaro
is in some ways a bit similar to oldschool slackware, which
unfortunately kind of died - it is not really fully dead,
but look at the homepage and then tell me how many years
past the last .iso release still counts as alive. So to me
it is dead, despite the changelogs still being updated or
others, such as alienbob, pushing out new releases.)
Younger DHH was more impressive than the TechBro aged later variant, in my personal opinion.
Arch is in general a good base though - I mostly use Manjaro as base, then customize it via a ton of scripts and compile about 99% from source anyway, using an extended set of ruby scripts (a bit similar to homebrew, but one big difference is that I wanted versioned AppDirs like in GoboLinux; my scripts originated from GoboLinux's philosophy since I did not want to use shell scripts but retain versioned AppDirs. Manjaro is in some ways a bit similar to oldschool slackware, which unfortunately kind of died - it is not really fully dead, but look at the homepage and then tell me how many years past the last .iso release still counts as alive. So to me it is dead, despite the changelogs still being updated or others, such as alienbob, pushing out new releases.)