I am a Linux noobie and have only used Mint for around six months now. While I have definitely learned a lot, I don’t have the time to always be doing crazy power user stuff and just want something that works out of the box. While I love Mint, I want to try out other decently easy to use distros as well, specifically not based on Ubuntu, so no Pop OS. Is Manjaro a possibly good distro for me to check out?
I don’t understand the hate. I have been using Manjaro as my sole OS on two machines (a Thinkpad with XFCE, a Surface with Gnome) for several years, and have never had any major problem. Everything just works. The same could be said of Mint (which I used to be on before Manjaro), but I enjoy having faster updates on Manjaro. So I guess, from experience, I am very happy with it.
I’m not a distro hopper, but 6 years ago I ditched Windows and chose Manjaro in the i3wm flavor.
I learned a lot initially and now “live in the terminal” whenever possible and I’m still using the same install.
If you want to learn more about linux, I can recommend it.
lDK if straight arch is better (as i’ve never used it) but I think I kinda prefer not having a constant flood of updates.
I used Manjaro on raspberry pi and it worked well however i personally havent used Manjsro in years i still wouldnt use it though because its arch and i prefer simpler distros when i first started using Linux it was Linux Mint, then Kubuntu, then Zorin, then Fedora and now OpenSuSe Tumbleweed im happy with that distro and dont want to change it
All opinions are biased and I don’t like Manjaro!
