I’m not a computer expert or planning to be. I’m just a computer user, a coder, a gamer, and I think I will get the opportunity to afford cheaper PCs if I use the Arch distro from Linux which is very lightweight and fast. I’ve heard Microsoft forces you to bloat your PC with win11.
Any linux distro is significantly more lightweight than windows. But I’d say that there is not much difference between arch and for example the most bloated distro: ubuntu.
If you are a coder, the CLI will be easy. Most of the time the use of CLI is comparable to a single line in your code where you call a function with some parameters.
But arch is difficult for a beginner. (I wrote some more about my experience with it here: https://lemy.lol/post/61578059/24360161 )
If you have time, interest and discipline to read the documentation and learn a lot, then arch is great.
If you just want to use a Linux OS, install Mint and just use it. It’s no big deal, just a normal OS. It’s very intuitive, low friction and no microslop bloat.