I had arch, it never broke on me for no reason. Sometimes the pacman wouldn’t update because of some weird keyring issue, but that was about it. Then my Logitech mouse randomly stopped working and I tried everything. Then I hopped distros to see if it worked better and that didn’t help. Now I’m on opensuse

VLC player with mpv

No, no, there’s /home and stuff you need not worry about

You need quite a bit of fiddling to get everything set up, and then it just works