Hi, I just wanted to say how pleased my spouse and I are with Manjaro. I switched our home PCs to dual boot Manjaro and Windows 10. None of them are Windows 11 compatible and I wanted a user friendly distribution as my spouse is not as much of a technical person as I am. I’m the house IT guy. Manjaro with the plasma desktop was the perfect choice. Our experience has been great so far and we haven’t used Windows for months. So thanks to everyone for making this such a great experience. 
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My partner isn’t interested in the technnical side of things. She uses Manjaro KDE, it came pre installed on her 2 in 1, and other than a few issues with the AUR, mostly ralated to the DDOS attacks, She has Mullvad VPN installed, at my suggestion, and a couple of issues with overheating (we’re in a part of a Australia that gets rather warm), she has had very few problems she can’t deal with herself.
She does all her own updates, via Pamac-Manager (the GUI), and has chosen to leave the desktop layout as it came.
So I think you will discover, your spouse will have a remarkably trouble free experience.
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Thanks for the reply We’re in Nova Scotia Canada, mostly wet and cool, except for this past summer when we had a drought and it was exceptionally hot for us.
So far my spouse has found it an easy transition and she has been able to do what she wants to. I think the KDE desktop was the way to go. I think she would have been baffled by the Gnome desktop. It would have been different enough to be an obstacle at first. I made sure KDE Plasma was the desktop for our PCs so she could easily use them. So far, we can do everything we want to in Linux. I’m starting to wonder if it was worth bothering with the dual boot because we haven’t used Windows for months, and don’t want to. 
Out of curiosity did you solve your issue with heat? I imagine that would be something you face quite often. My stepson built his own PC and he has one of those liquid cooling systems in it. I noticed that thing pumps out quite a bit of heat out of the top of his PC. I joke with him that he could fry an egg on it but it must work.
Well the machine is a 2 in 1 (it’s the StarLite from StarLabs), so it is basically a Tablet with a detachable keyboard, and Tablets don’t have cooling systems. So we set up a small desk fan behind it, and run that on hot days, and blow air over the back of the Tablet section… she mostly uses it as a laptop any way so it’s not a problem from that point of view.
Aren’t those desktop fans great! We have a little Roku Express which has no fan. Like your tablet it overheats. Last summer it was hot to the touch. In the case of the Roku it starts to act funny when it gets too hot in the house, basically stops working and reports an error. We were scratching our heads for a bit as to what to do about it but we put one of those desktop fans blowing on it and it is amazing how well that works at cooling it down to the point it was no longer hot to the touch. Problem solved!
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