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Then Arch is not for you. The distro requires you to always be informed of the latest news regarding Arch before upgrading so you'll probably have to admin your system.
If you're not ready to do that then you should probably stay with Fedora.
My suggestion: run arch in a virtual machine and get familiar with it before installing it.
I’m sorry but that is not true. Been using arch for 15+ years and update once a week without checking the “latest news”. In all those years I’ve had to manually intervene because of a file conflict maybe 5 times or so.
OP said he didn't want to waste his time. Arch is not like Ubuntu. It requires you to RTFM (and Arch documentation is excellent) and know what you are doing and be willing to learn from your mistakes. That takes time and dedication. I went with what OP said.