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Laptop is fine as a tinkering device, but if you have something critical it's best not to trust a rolling release. I would recommend Fedora Silverblue or something else immutable that automatically updates and does not have a lot of incompatibility issues.
Arch is not something to be relying on consistently. You can make it stable, but then one day you will do a yay -Syu and all of a sudden your critical machine is offline pending troubleshooting that is not required with more stable distros.
EOS is the best out of the box Arch experience I've had, it makes it a lot more user friendly than just the base, and it can be customized just as much as the base. When I was running Arch I was running EOS and it was good for what I needed, although I have had it basically brick itself with an update. I am currently running Fedora Silverblue on my laptop and it's been very stable.
you don't use yay do you
Edit: typing
yay
without any other argument defaults toyay -Syu
so there's no reason to type it outI guess I didn't know yay by itself as a command was an alias for pacman -Syu, guess I've just always been redundantly using -Syu.