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hey, I see people talking a lot about the problems on Manjaro. What do you recommend as an alternative? I used EndeavourOS but an update broke my pc. I then tried debian but the games ran poorly and crashed, then I changed to Manjaro because I didn't know any better.
I haven't personally used it but Bazzite is a custom image based off of Fedora 39 with preinstalled gaming software and it's atomic
To be honest, the default themes for many DE's are actually pretty tasteful. Just vanilla Arch isn't bad if you don't mind running the pacman update command. I honestly recommend Nobara for people who want stability and point/click updates.
Endeavor is more like hobbyist UI purist, and not that well optimized. Arch is insanely optimized, as well as Nobara. I would recommend Ubuntu but, Snaps. Pop would be great if their major rebase was further along, so options are pretty limited. We're in a weird transition right now as far as the major distros and overall performance metrics.
I'm currently running Nobara and personally cannot recommend it due to a lot of annoying issues. Can't even drag & drop shit out of the FF download window into Dolphin, even though that was working fine on any other distro I used before (including Manjaro, which was still the most stable distro I used).
That to me sounds like their wayland by default setup, which is really more about the wayland ecosystem and reliance on xwayland (although firefox is suppose to launch wayland native on Nobara with KDE).
I'm aware of a few quirks, but that sounds pretty specific. My experience with all DE's right now has me pretty negative on Linux overall until we get fully migrated to wayland sessions with explicit sync working....and that's a year off at least.
Wayland is generally a huge mess. At least I can disable Fsync now, which caused my screen to go black for brief moments, especially when playing. Lots of other game or app specific issues remain as well...
Opensuse tumbleweed because at least they test software before pushing to users.
I like Mint; it has that Ubuntu ease of use, without Ubuntu's snap packages.
If you want something geared specifically for gaming, Pop_OS is good. I'm not a fan of how it looks, but I think I'm the minority in that
Pop_OS is known to cause issues with some games running under wine, for that reason I don’t recommend it.
Garuda linux is a good alternative, but it’s got a very “cool” design philosophy that some people might not like.
Manjaro ran without breaking for me for almost two years. EOS also nuked itself after a few months for me. I think Manjaro's reputation is worse than the actual distro because a lot of people circlejerked about their failed cert issue (which affected only the website) and the "scandal" about the laptop thingy some years ago.
Skip the bullshit and go straight to Arch. archinstall for a good time.
won't it break after a few months?
I've not had problems but nothing is fool-proof and I have proved myself a fool in the past.
In all seriousness I followed the Manjaro - Endeavour - Arch pipeline and don't see much value in the other flavors outside of a little handholding that can introduce problems of its own.