Arch Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution that's always in the newest version of software packages, differing it from versionated distributions as Ubuntu and Debian, which updates all package's major/minor only in new releases. Another good point of Arch is that all configurations are the default ones, so you don't get Canonical's or RedHat's opinions in your operating system.
Although, not everything is flowers. Arch's installation isn't graphical, that's why I've created dsome time ago a sequence of commands to help friends to get Arch Linux with GNOME with the setup I consider the best for everyone.
After creating a boot thumb drive and boot it (download in https://www.archlinux.org/download/)