[OT] Good or best Linux distro?

[Dicebot]

On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 16:36:32 UTC, Chris wrote:
> I'm kinda torn between the two sides. On the one hand I don't 
> want to do too much manual configuring and tinkering 
> (especially for basic things), on the other hand I don't want 
> big fat apps I'll probably never use installed by default. I'll 
> give Manjaro (Arch Linux) a try and see, if I can build up my 
> own custom configuration as I go along. The only fear I have in 
> this regard is that it might be hard to get certain apps i like 
> or need, if they are not in the repository. But things will 
> improve and I like to give new things a try. I can always come 
> back to the bigger distros.

AUR (aur.archlinux.org, user-supplied PKGBUILD database) is the 
place to look at for some less popular or controversial packages. 
I am pretty sure it fits into Manjaro too.