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?
You suggest it us a bandwagon because many don’t like Manjaro and multiple people raised issues. You’re guilty of using your anecdotal evidence to rule out the anecdotal evidence of many.
I don’t know the exact cause of my issue, I want to use my PC to do actual work. I did some research, reverted through time machine andd tried again in a slightly different way to rule out graphics card driver. It still failed. I want reliability and don’t want to become an expert sysadmin. I specifically don’t use Arch, or Gentoo for this reason. I dont have to be a chef to enjoy food. Manjaro claims to do more testing. The issues I faced on PinePhone did not happen on the arch version, it was specific to Manjaro. Kubuntu just worked and never broke after. Mint had been working for years. Manjaro is the only distro I have faced issues with. Maybe it was Arch, maybe it was Manjaro. It is irrelevant. I don’t use either. Manjaro’s reputation is well earnt and non of your shilling us going to counteract the catalog of failures that are widely documented and hard to ignore.
This is fine and your prerogative.
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.