Allow me to suggest NixOS instead of Arch, for the same automation reason: NixOS meant a single (normally split in few) file(s) that describe your desired config, nixos-install/nixos-rebuild makes the system for you, so at any point in time if something break you just roll back to the previous build, not need to "emergency fix" something or have a test system aside. It's not a "distro war" but what I call a natural outcome of taking notes: in the same org-mode notes I keep my bills, my mails (ol-notmuch), my files (org-attach-ed and linked), a fully searchable "knowledge base" with just ripgrep, no recoll (xapian) or other indexers needed, but also my NixOS config, zsh config, ... and so on. Again the same automation (well, org-babel-tangle + little stuff) works for anything. The same documentation model works for anything. It's long to start, many things to learn, but it pay back much thereafter.
In my case while migrating toward a local approach I've tried some tools, like the idea of using Zotero for a bit anything, bookmarks, docs, ... it works, but it's not integrable with other tools like ALL modern apps, so I've put most in org-mode, bookmarks included, with Buku + ebuku to manage the SQLite DB from Emacs, org attaching stuff is slower than the Zotero connector but much more flexible, "Copy as Org-Mode" (FF extension) it's not as quick as Zotero notes, but the flexibility of one tool for anything is extreme, a thing we lost loosing the classic desktop model and today we can rediscover but still suffering the lack of development and the rest of the world heading in totally different directions.
In my case while migrating toward a local approach I've tried some tools, like the idea of using Zotero for a bit anything, bookmarks, docs, ... it works, but it's not integrable with other tools like ALL modern apps, so I've put most in org-mode, bookmarks included, with Buku + ebuku to manage the SQLite DB from Emacs, org attaching stuff is slower than the Zotero connector but much more flexible, "Copy as Org-Mode" (FF extension) it's not as quick as Zotero notes, but the flexibility of one tool for anything is extreme, a thing we lost loosing the classic desktop model and today we can rediscover but still suffering the lack of development and the rest of the world heading in totally different directions.