Used to run Arch on the desktop on an old laptop back in the day, now I only have Arch on a couple VPS. I will admit Arch devs have been absolutely sloppy lately with package/system updates. I also had a kernel problem when I used Arch on Digital Ocean, but it was a custom unsupported install I did years ago before it finally kernel panicked. It's usually fine if you don't do partial system upgrades and don't use testing repo sources. FWIW Debian 12 on my X1 Thinkpad has been a very stable desktop experience. Coming from someone who has used Arch since 06, I would never recommend Arch on the desktop for development