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There aren't many distro with a base system as tiny as Arch. It's not a bad choice at all. It's on my server since many years, working perfectly reliable. Everything except the base system is inside Podman containers. Why not?
Not necessarily saying it's a bad idea, especially with everything running within podman it's probably even quite awesome. It just feels like it's a lot more tedious to fix in the case that something got messed up. Still, not a bad idea generally, as long as you know what you're doing ^^
After using many different distros, I feel everywhere a little incompetent when trying to fix simple issues.
Arch Linux for some reason always makes things easy and easy fixable in case things go bad.
Not saying it's necessarily a bad idea, just that it has to be fun