Do not use Manjaro. It is a known trap. What you can do is install pamac, which is what Manjaro uses for GUI package management. It's been a hot minute since I've used Arch, so here's a tutorial:

https://itsfoss.com/install-pamac-arch-linux/

Alternatively you could look at Garuda, which is a solid Arch distro. You'll either love or hate the theme, but that's easy to change. It also comes with an interactive kernel by default (most distros use a regular kernel build, which works better for servers).

Whatever you do, please please please not Ubuntu. It's the lowest common denominator. Emphasis on "lowest". It was good in the past, but Canonical have really lost the plot.

For your use case, consider it to be a packaging format (like AppImage, Flatpak, Deb, RPM, etc.) that includes all the dependencies (including services, not just libraries) for the app in question.

Should I change this?

If it's not broken don't fix it.

Use Podman (my preferred - the SystemD approach is awesome), containerd, or Incus. Docker is a graveyard of half-finished pet projects that have no reason for existing. Podman has a Docker-compatible socket, so 100% of Docker tooling will work with it.

PipeWire wins in the feature-set game, which is why it is being preferred over PulseAudio.

According to the inventor of PipeWire, this is the wrong perspective to take. PipeWire is preferred over PulseAudio as a server, clients (apps) should continue to use the PulseAudio/JACK APIs because the PipeWire API is not designed for general use (it's designed for things like pipewire-pulse and pipewire-jack).

Harassment is continuing once being told "no." There are a few frames missing from that comic for it to count as harassment.

Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Mark Twain

At the very least we can call BS on developers who claim they don't support Linux because it's niche, while they support MacOS.

Mine was at 16 because my foreskin stopped growing. I honestly would have preferred to have it done at birth before I could remember the pain (like my brothers).

It wasn't ever about productivity, it was about control.

Succeeding at buying from Amazon is easy:

1. Make sure that the local brick-and-mortar doesn't have the thing you want first.
2. Avoid products that have SEO titles ("fish bowl for fish container fish aquarium for fish"), or nonsensical manufacturer names (FDRTNHY).
3. Weep quietly because it's page 50 and there still aren't any listings that don't violate #2.

Btw COW isn't necessarily (and isn't at least for ZFS) a performance trade-off. Data isn't really copied, new data is simply written elsewhere on the disk (and the old data is not marked as free space).

Ultimately it actually means "the data behaves as though it was copied," which can be achieved in many ways. There are many ways to do that without actually copying.

As of 2017 he still contributes and said "it's fun." I assume he did.

But even Linus has since admitted that his behavior was unacceptable.

There isn't always a victor when there is a loser (and visa versa fwiw). Reddit didn't win here, Redditors lost.