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matthew-salerno • Edited

Manjaro for me.
1) I really love the wide selection of packages between aur, official repositories, snaps and flatpak, there's not much you can't get. And it can all be done through pamac! I don't hate the command line, but it's nice to be able to search and browse all available installation sources, especially when I don't know the name of what I'm looking for.
2) Being arch based the arch wiki has very few differences and is an amazing resource. I honestly still use arch wiki even when working on Debian derivatives.
3) rolling release is excellent, and I appreciate the extra testing manjaro goes through.
4) The net installer allows me to set up everything I want to an incredible level of detail, while still saving me time I would have spent configuring an arch installation. Setup with minimal kde, set zsh as my console, add my favorite apps to the install list and I'm all set!
5) the manjaro hardware manager is very useful, and makes installing nvidia drivers a breeze. It's not perfect, in fact I really had to fight it when I was running an egpu, but now that I have a desktop computer I've had no issues.
6) I find a lot of the manjaro tweaks to be very thoughtful, even if they're things I could do myself. For example, F12 to open a drop down console, good taste in default apps, meta key opening the app launcher (though that may be a kde thing, I'm not sure) and the default manjaro theming is a lot more coherent than some of the defaults desktop environments ship with (at least in kde).

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TKDMzq

Yakuake is best console i've seen. Quick, responsvie, hidden when not used. Add vs code console to mix and without taking any screen space you have two terminals ready for action.
Also maintianed flavors so no matter the prefered DE you can just download, boot up and install.