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Hello, I've been using manjaro xfce for a few months now and I'm starting to wonder if I would enjoy any other distros more, I'm not really a technical person but I really do enjoy linux so i'm willing to learn new things.

I'm looking for a distro that is minimal while not being too complex, (Manjaro keeps breaking itself for a laugth)

Please leave distro recommendations in the comments below I will be sure to play with them in live boot or in a Vm.

Thank you and have a good day, Sebo

#Update: I tryed openSUSE Tumbleweed, EndevourOS and Arch and so far I'm enjoying arch the most (I installed it with help of the wiki and a youtube guide)

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[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Arch and Arch-based distributions (like Manjaro, EndeavourOS, Garuda ecc.) will teach you to do maintenance to your OS to keep it working: they're powered by bleeding edge packages and those for sure break way more often than other distros.
If you ever get tired of this thing, Debian is the exact opposite side of the spectrum: you have older software in your repositories but that's very well tested and it will hardly ever break. And if you ever need the latest applications, there's always Flathub.
This is the peaceful life I chose for myself.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Manjaro may lead you to believe that Arch distros bteak. It is not Arch, it is Manjaro.

For me, Arch or EndevourOS have been very stable. Manjaro was / is a time-bomb.

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, yes yes. As a person who's used EndeavorOS for at least 3 years, if it breaks, it's because I broke something, (like accidentally deleting my DE), not because my apps went to dependency hell.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

During the 3 years I spent on Endeavour it happened a couple times that new packages would break something: once with ALSA and once with PipeWire, so mainline packages and not something from the AUR. I managed to get things fixed but they've been both busy afternoons.
Small inconveniences aside, I had a really great time with that distribution

[–] foobarijk@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arch distros still require you to read the release notes before updating. It's not a hassle free affair, and those who don't do it are bound to break their system once in a while.

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Most AUR helpers get the news for you.