[OT] Good or best Linux distro?

[Chris]

On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 14:53:55 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 14:35:29 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 12:47:15 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>>> - what is your preferred Deskop Environment / Windows 
>>>> Manager?
>>>
>>> Most distros are flexible. Right now I'm testing Xfce.
>>
>> Theoretically - yes. In practice packaging quality differs 
>> depending on how much attention specific DE/WM gets from that 
>> distro maintainers. For example, you are unlikely to reliably 
>> use Unity anywhere but on Ubuntu and Gnome 3 fans are pretty 
>> much limited to Fedora and Arch. For more simplistic 
>> environments it is not that much of a concern, at least Xfce 
>> should be rock solid anywhere.
>>
>> I am (unsurprisingly) using Arch but can easily imagine 
>> perfectly legitimate reasons to not do so :P
>
> I've had a look at Arch. While it seems to be a nice and 
> (c)lean distro, it is a bit of a pain in the neck to install / 
> set up. Also I don't know, if it will be easy to get the 
> hardware support I need. I don't want to spend ages configuring 
> it and tinkering with drivers etc. I prefer UI installers and 
> out-of-the box support (and if the latter is not possible, at 
> least an "easy-to-get-the-drivers-later-system"). The laziest 
> option would be Mint, but Mint is basically Ubuntu (if it's not 
> LMDE). If OpenSUSE causes problems with D (as pointed out 
> above), I'm not sure, if it's a good idea to use it, especially 
> now that I use dub. Little annoyances can sometimes become big 
> annoyances, if they occur at a critical moment.
>
> Maybe I'll give Fedora (+ Xfce) a shot.

Any experience with Manjaro which is based on Arch linux?