Manjaro has most of the important upsides of Arch, being Arch-based but has the user friendliness of the Ubuntu family. I recommend Manjaro over Arch, easily. It definitely averts many of the downsides of Arch.
Kallestofeles. · 2y. Even though Manjaro uses Arch very, very deep in its core, it is heavily modified and is more of an "arch-like" by now. Sure, you get to tinker around but you get that with almost every linux distro.
Though Manjaro and arch can be considered same, it is not 100% true. It's a customized arch based distro with controlled package release cycle. Good thing about Manjaro is the community. It's much more noob friendly. If you are looking for docs or wiki, nothing could beat the arch wiki. 4 level 1 JavaCafe01 · 2y
As someone who has (and still uses) both distros, I feel that while Manjaro provides a fantastic install experience, it is a completely different beast from vanilla Arch. EndeavourOS is just an easy to install Arch: it doesn't deviate from vanilla much, if at all, and has the same Calamares installer experience. 2 Share ReportSave level 2
Manjaro is better for people who want to get jobs done with less distractions from the OS maintenance, while Arch is better for people who want to tame the OS without obfuscation and know how to fix it when they run into issues. 27 comments 86% Upvoted This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast Sort by level 1