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So Question: What do you actually want to achieve?
Do you want a rolling, semi-rolling or stable releases? More tested or even LTS packages, or the latest?
Uhmmm so it would be interesting to learn about rolling releases and thats where my choice of manjaro could fit in. Sometimes I simply get bored of debian/Ubuntu but its what I'm most familiar with. The goal is to learn and USE other distros. Not just browse or hop around but I want to use the three main distro types all on one system. I want things to remain in tact like a normal workstation installed on your desktop. Idk much about virtualization, but I'm under the impression that they wipe your disk or a certain distro clean after each use. I do NOT want that.
I went a huge journey.
I like immutable as you can reset your system. You can see most of your deviation from "what works" using
rpm-ostree status.And sorry but its all Linux, it doesnt work differently if you are not a server admin or tweaking SELinux, custom polkit rules and stuff like that.
Thanks. The time I was using Manjaro, I liked it alot but am also confused by the weird negative reputation...
I mean they are based on Arch and their "stable" is simply that they wait to ship packages. I dont think this is the best way, unsure if they also handle bugfixes like that.
So its basically preconfigured Arch with a weird repo. If you want the AUR, it is said to break on Manjaro.
I run Debian with a bunch of virtual machines for exploring other distros. This might not be a good solution for a laptop though.