Arch is way too advanced for beginner to casual users. Arch and Kali are security/penetration testing distros, totally not suitable for beginners.

Ive been running Ubuntu 1404 and would not recommend it if you are going to run anything graphical, like games, dosbox, or emulators. Its great for programming, running docker containers, etc, but Ive had 3 system crashes where the display drivers get completely out of whack and I need to boot off the ubuntu install…