I’ve seen a lot of people who quite dislike Manjaro, and I’m not really sure why. I’m myself am not a Manjaro user, but I did use it for quite a while and enjoyed my experienced, as it felt almost ready out of the box. I’m not here to judge, just wanted to hear the opinion of the community on the matter. Thanks!
I have heard things previously about Manjaro that make me want to avoid it.
OTOH, as an Arch user, some of the things I feel could use improvement are better with Manjaro. Pretty much every Arch derivative does something about the major pain points of Arch, though, slapping on a installation gui (though, honestly, just advertising the archinstall CLI script that’s on the install usb stick and fixing it up a bit would help Arch), and giving you an AUR helper by default.
I recently tried the XFCE version of Endeavor in a vm, and I quite like it, so if I move from Arch, I’m more inclined to go that direction.
Arch would be so much better if it just automated the setup process to resemble that of most other mainstream distros.
Personally, what I’d say to do is make the install live usb boot to an actual desktop environment, with an icon for running a normal graphical setup to install it… but also icons for a terminal, gparted, and the install docs, so you can do it via a command prompt if you want, though with the ability to see the docs while typing, copy and paste, use a gui to partition your drive, and such…