Honestly the wiki is excellent, I do recommend to dive in head first with the install guide
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As others said, the Arch wiki is so well made that it should be the only source you need. Videos will not bring you anything given your background. The main difference with other distros will be the package manager.
A video about the install process will just be someone reading the wiki to you, and a video to "explain" pacman to you will be overkill ;)
For actual tutorials the Wiki is the best choice.
Reviews etc. I always found pointless, and esp. with Arch because of its user-centricity: each install will be different.
FWIW I've been using it for 10 years and the only gripe I have is that my hardware is getting old while Arch isn't.
The reason videos aren't recommended is because they quickly go out of date. Text is easier to update, and so are screenshots.
The wiki is the most comprehensive guide you will find.
However if you don't know what you are looking for help on, it is best to search up what issue you are having, then consult the wiki when you learn the terminology you needed to find the page.
As you’ve been daily driving Linux for 7 years already, I don’t understand what issues you think you’ll have with Arch?
Either you are heavily misinformed about how difficult arch is, or you lack any confidence in your 'Linux skill'.
Choose the system you want to achieve, follow the wiki and choose the software you want to use using it and you are good to go, it really is not that hard. You can always use archinstall.
Read the arch wiki if you are in doubt, go through manual install once for experience, follow the arch wiki guide for that too.
Arch wiki is life, YT guides are basically useless for this.
Well, I guess I'm off to read the fkin wiki now.
You can always install an arch derivative like endeavour instead and click through the wizard