Do you think that it will be a lot popular in the future?
Right if you want to use Artix looks like a problem.
I do think it will be very popular in the future, you could argue that it's already popular in many use cases. I think that it's slowly getting there, maybe a year or three from now we will have RISC-V in our laptops.
I think you can try gentoo on RISC-V right now.
I found out about Arch Linux RISC-V:
https://archriscv.felixc.at/
Some hardware that runs Linux but use a custom kernel for drivers:
https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/uconsole-kit-r-01