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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?

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[–] Brochetudo@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit

[–] tesseract@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I've used it on a couple of headless machines over the years primarily as a host for docker containers. It's been mostly great but those few times it has broken was really annoying. Nothing I couldn't fix and never needed to reinstall though.

That being said I'll be reconfiguring soon and I thinking about switching away and using Debian.