Arch if you want to do the install completely by yourself and/or have some setup that can’t be replicated by the usual installers.

EndeavourOS/Cachy if you want a simple GUI installer for Arch, but you don’t get bragging rights.

Don’t use Manjaro

You can still use VMs and do containers in there. That’s what I do, makes separating different services very easy.

I wanted to contribute a while back and found a bunch of duplicate authors. Unfortunately there wasn’t any way to merge them and the relevant issue has been open for years.

Must’ve been hard finding an object with the right curves to straigten out your face

/s(orry)