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?

    • @Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      You do realize that you’re basically saying your anecdotal experience is better than mine right? So you’re basically doing the same thing you’re accusing me of, thinking that everyone’s experience is like yours. All I asked was whether you actually figured out what the root cause was. From your vague response, I can only surmise you didn’t do the least amount of debugging and decided to blame Manjaro just because. All the other distros you tested on weren’t even Arch-based, so you don’t even have a solid understanding of whether it was actually Manjaro or an Arch issue.

      you’re coming across as a Manjaro shill.

      Seriously? I am not even using Manjaro anymore as per my post. Just because I am not blindly following the crowd and jumping on hate bandwagons whenever I see one doesn’t make me a shill. Calm yourself.

        • @Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0•2 years ago

          I want reliability and don’t want to become an expert sysadmin. I specifically don’t use Arch, or Gentoo for this reason.

          This is fine and your prerogative.

          I don’t know the exact cause of my issue

          And this is the problem I had with your original comment. You don’t actually know what the root cause is and yet you’re ready to apply blame to Manjaro with absolute certainty. This is why I say you’re just jumping on the bandwagon. Many of the other “reports” that you mention are in a similar vein. It all boils down to “well something broke, I don’t know what, and therefore I blame Manjaro”.

          Do you know how many people use Ubuntu and had something break for them? Their forums are littered with these posts as well. I personally have had Ubuntu absolutely shit the bed during system updates, but you don’t see me going around declaring Ubuntu is shit and for good reason! I don’t actually know what caused it! It could have been something specific in my setup. I know that Ubuntu works well for many other people. Likewise, there are many people, myself included, who’ve used Manjaro before and it worked fine for them.

          All I am saying is don’t be so quick to judge. All you have is 2 random breakages that you haven’t properly root-caused and what you claim to be a bunch of random hearsay from others, and yet you’re ready to throw your anecdotal experience into the ring as complete fact.