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I started using Manjaro KDE Plasma in or around August 2022, I joined the forum shortly after. I started my Linux Journey in 2000 with Mandrake Linux and KDE.
I didnât know anyone hated Manjaro, until after I started using it.
The reason, A major upgrade of Linux Mint turned my computer into a brick, Mostly my fault, I suppose, as i had it loaded to the gills with PPAs, so I could get more recent applications installed.
I decided I needed a distro that gave me more recent applications by default, and found Manjaro, and decided the rolling release style, was more like what I wanted. Not total bleeding edge, but stable and with more recent applications.
As it turns out I think it was the best decision I could have made. My system is rock solid stable, from one upgrade to the next.
I too have no idea what the issues are the haters have with Manjaro,
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I have no issueâs with Manjaro and I am on the unstable branch.I have been waiting for this system to crash for about 5 years now and it has not happened yet.The main issue i see is when my nvidia card stops being supported which is sometime next year.When that happens I plan on trying out an AMD card as I have never used one.I have read some of the hate about Manjaro as well.I am pretty sure there are some people if they were given and brand new auto they would find something wrong with it to complain about.
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Over 7 years, on several different laptops, and nothing but pleasant and stress-free use. Manjaro is convenient, up-to-date, and truly beautiful to look at. I recommend it to anyone who wants to break free from micro$oft.
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Just do not buy nvidia. Although that is not a manjaro problem.
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Apples and oranges. GNU/Linux is not, and was never intended to be an alternative to Microsoft Windows. It was created as a Free & Open Source alternative to proprietary UNIX.
UNIX systems let your computer be a computer. Windows turns your computer into a household kitchen sink appliance.
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Thatâs usually what people, who want to break free of Microsoft, want
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Hmm, I tend to disagree. I think many of them simply want to move away from some of the quirks in Windows, or perhaps from Microsoft and its business practices in general.
Just as many are also simply looking at GNU/Linux as an experiment, without any commitment. Or because they heard some YouTuber or Redditer say that it would be a gaming OS. 
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Personally I donât have a problem with that, so long as they are willing to accept that itâs different in other ways too.
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I would suggest, rather, a conduit for Advertisers, Scammers (and those are not necessarily different), con artists, and thieves.
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The reason for using manjaro can be read from the creation date of my root partition:
Filesystem created: Sat Oct 15 21:00:06 2016
This is now on the 3rd hardware generation since then.
No major upgrade, no reinstallation, just update, done. I even switched from ATI Gfx to nVidia and from intel to amd just by cloning the partitions to the new hardware.
Thanks to the manjaro team and the community!
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My root filesystem was originally created in 2019, but Iâve had to recreate it in June due to my decision to change my partitioning layout, going from a whole slew of individual (btrfs) partitions to (a whole slew of) btrfs subvolumes.
I initially did that by enlarging the original root partition, but I messed up in (manually) restoring the files from an rsync backup, and so I had to reformat the partition anyway to clean up that mess. This, of course, created a new timestamp for the root filesystem.
In the end, it was still not a reinstall, though. I simply copied back the rsyncâd directories and files to the newly created root filesystem with all of its subvolumes mounted. 
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I think I switched to Manjaro at 2016. The reasons to choose it and stick to it were already discussed in this thread. Here is a screenshot from 2016:
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I liked very much Arch Linux, but after a few uneventful updates, there was always one that broke my system so much that it wasnât funny anymoreâŠ
So when I heard of the curated model of Manjaro, I tested the Release Candidate 0.8.2rc2 with XFCE, appreciated it a lot and wrote a praiseful article on it in the French Linux Essentiel 29.
That was in November 2012 and I never looked back to Arch since, outside of the wiki, which is simply the best out there!
Here are the snapshots I made at that time, a real walk down memory lane that perhaps some will find interesting:
- Test from the live DVD (yes, DVD) and ready to installâŠ
- Good olâ 6 steps CLI install
- Upgrading the system 2012 style:
- Up and running, fully updated:
Having to test almost every Linux distro out there for my articles, I really liked the Cinnamon DE from Linux Mint, so when I noticed an existing community edition for Manjaro, I did a clean install of it in 2019, Iâm running it since and thatâs how it looks now (nothing fancy):
The only bit of kit surviving from 2012 is my NZXT Phantom PC case, all the hardware was upgraded since without any problems, which says a lot about Manjaro, if itâs well maintained, of course!
Iâm still using Manjaro XFCE though, but on a 2007 Dell Latitude D630 now (and the GNOME edition on an 2017 ASUS VivoBook Pro 17)âŠ
On those I didnât even bother to change the default wallpaper though
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What I say for fighting people is please donât be cucumbersome.
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Word of the Day.
Iâve posted my desktop multiple times. It looks just like my Wallpaper, because thatâs all you see, everything else is hidden until i need it.
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Worthy of a standing ovulation, Iâd say.
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5 years running Manjaro and Iâve loved it. Tried a couple other distros but they were all either missing too many packages (mostly Fedora-based distros, but Ubuntuâs missing some that are in the AUR) or they were too annoying to get working (Nix: nice in theory but hell in practice).
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