Manjaro is my daily driver
Mageia my long time backup
I installed Manjaro recently to try it out. I used the Cinnamon spin. It looks great and seems to have everything needed. I just found it real buggy and not being familiar with the Manjaro/arch tools made it worse. Right from the first boot polkit wasn't enabled and I couldn't get priviledges. Took me some time to find out why and what but it stopped me from doing anything. Seemed it was every day I had to find a file to edit to get something to work. I finally gave up and reinstalled siduction.
The KDE version works fine, as does gnome, the outliers on any distro can be problematic
Manjaro warns about using AUR & how it can cause breakage
I had some issues when python reached end of life, which were resolved by uninstalling the offending packages & building them again through the package manager
I have yet to modify a configuration file in nearly four years on Manjaro
While I will open a terminal or modify a configuration manually as a last resort, but it is just not my kind of fun...
Every support channel for every distro always offers up code as solutions for every problem, instead of the well crafted GUI solutions built in, which is a function of the people giving the advice being commandline oriented, which is neither good nor bad, just the way it is
I'm working on centos stream & redcore builds too
The goal is to have backup systems of user friendly derivatives of the primary sources of linux packages
I haven't identified user friendly candidates for slack & BSD as yet
I try to avoid distros subject to corporate shenanigans like suze, ubun
One man shows like pclos, mint
Single issue distros, anti systemd [mx]
Redhat is hard to avoid, being the largest benefactor of open source for always
Mageia is the most user friendly, but has limited software & can lag a couple of years on plasma
I've set up a few technically challenged seniors with easy to use & maintain systems for general use, I rarely get requests for help after the 1st couple of weeks
My Mageia laptop can be updated no problem, even after being offline for many months