Hey, I’ve been running Arch, fairly bare bones for quite a few years now with few issues and I was able to work through any that came up. i3, herbsluftwm, and now hyprland. I don’t have the time to tinker like I did and my terminal and system skills are getting rusty and poor. Do you guys have any remondations to an OS that’s not a rolling release and a bit more set and forget. Because I’m familiar with Arch, ideally an arch build, Manjaro was the first OS I ever used.
Thanks.
Welcome to the community @BoboTheHobo, thanks for joining us! 
Welcome to the forums @BoboTheHobo
Have you already taken a look at CachyOS?
Also I know not Arch based but Fedora might be what you are looking for.
Try also distrofighter.com. Answer 8 multiple choice questions and it matches you with 3 best distros based on your preferences.
Oh also OpenSUSE TW. Bleeding edge, but as you mentioned: just a bit more handholding.
IMHO the answer is Debian LTS or Ubuntu LTS with Mate, XFCE or LXQT DE.
Also see a full list of Arch options here:
From that endeavouros is also a strong candidate:
Not knocking Arch, it could happen to any OS, but Arch is having a few problems right now. From DistroWatch
Last week we reported on malware being uploaded to the Arch User Repository (AUR). While initial reports indicated there were around 400 packages affected, since then additional attacks have impacted more packages. In response, the AUR maintainers have disabled new account sign-ups in an effort to stop the flow of sabotage. FOSS Force reports: “Initial reports were that 400 packages were affected, that AUR’s maintainers went into high gear, and took care of the problem. By the end of the story’s first chapter, the total number of affected packages sat at 1,500 packages. Case closed. After that, we heard about another round, this time more sophisticated and harder to detect. There were obviously additional packages involved, but not much emphasis on keeping a running count, although there were some numbers floating around.”
I too recommend Ubuntu Mate, Mint Mate and Debian Mate. Really there isn’t much difference in the three of them.
Hi @BoboTheHobo and welcome to the community!
If you’re looking to stick with Arch for familiarity, I would second @hydn’s recommendation and look at CachyOS. They do offer an LTS kernel option instead of the default rolling kernel. I’ve been using the default rolling release for close to two months now and haven’t really encountered any major issues.
If you’re ok with going outside of Arch and your priority is set and forget (which I understand to mean stable. If you mean something else, please feel free to correct me!), then I would second @ugnvs’s recommendation of Debian LTS. Very stable and simple to setup and use with plenty of room to muck around with things if you feel the need again!
Let us know what you end up choosing!