[OT] Good or best Linux distro?

[Moritz Maxeiner]

On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 22:39:53 UTC, Chris wrote:
> I managed to install Arch Linux with Manjaro. I could install 
> dub and dmd without any problems. The installation of Manjaro 
> failed in UEFI mode, although it said it had been successful, 
> it didn't work. I reinstalled it in classic mode with the 
> stable installer and now it works. Now I'm testing it. So far 
> everything works out of the box (wifi etc.) (unlike Ubuntu that 
> gave me an effin headache).
>
> I still believe that UEFI is just another trick to scare people 
> away from Linux.

Have you tried setting up UEFI manually 
(https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#UEFI_systems_2) ? 
Since Manjaro is Arch-based the  wiki should mostly still apply. 
I have setup UEFI with Arch on several systems so far without any 
issues, but as the page states, different manufacturers implement 
UEFI differently. If you run into any UEFI issues, you might want 
to report them, so they can be fixed / others can avoid that 
hardware if the need working UEFI.

Further off topic: SecureBoot might be a trick to scare people 
away from Linux, but UEFI? It brings direct boot into 64 bit long 
mode (making a lot of initialisation assembly code obsolete) and 
if you want, you can even get rid of a normal bootloader and 
directly boot up a kernel (efistub). While it is true that 
several manufacturers seem to implement it in a way that 
complicates / causes issues for Linux and it certainly could be 
made better / more implementations of it standard-compliant, I 
think UEFI is still a step up from BIOS.