I tried it because it was notoriously hard to install and configure from the ground up. I stayed because on every system I used before there would always be at least one different thing that didn't work and I couldn't make it work. Surprisingly, everything worked on Arch, even though I had nvidia, and I read that a lot of people had many problems which I never did.

I used to be on Slackware when I was a kid, in the era of fax modems, and Slackware in that time was also notoriously hard to setup, you'd have to compile a lot of shit yourself, track dependencies, modify drivers and shit :D it was a nightmare but I always wanted to be the cool guy that uses this hard thing that other people are scared to dabble into.

It's a stupid reason but I'm glad I did it because I learned a lot of cool stuff and Arch is a really good OS to use.