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I'm using Manjaro Xfce stable (kernel 4.19 at the moment) on my laptop (intel + nvidia Quadro) and my pseudo-seedbox (Intel + Amd GPU) for a year and an half and nothing broke so far.
My previous laptop was fueled with Arch + Plasma and it was all nice and good until the motherboard died a year later.
I can't say the same for Mint which broke several time due to drivers incompatibility with the current kernel and I won't talk about the upgrade from 18.3 to 19.0... Thanks Timeshift.
Waiting to upgrade my main computer to ditch Mint and go Manjaro or Arch, I don't know yet. Count me as a more than satisfied user.
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I have even had broken kernel updates on CentOS, which is embarrassing...
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Interesting bit of news from LWN; though it's a paid article and I can't read it currently -- here's the abstract:
For some background, the LWN article from May 21: https://lwn.net/Articles/788935/
You got my respects for achieving this :)
off topic, but that article is scary Suse has been bought by Paul Singer's hedge fund, who usually buys trash price bonds/shares and afterwards set ups trials.
Hope that opensuse lives on as the article states, as an independent foundation.
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In the ring are currently OpenSuse Tumbleweed, Manjaro, Federa and Pop!_OS.
I'm kinda scared about Manjaro, I don't really want to hassle with the system. I'm only familiar with Debian based Distros so far and there is still a risk breaking Manjaro upon updating, or am I wrong?
I'm using Ubuntu Budgie non-LTS for quite a while now and never crashed/not booted for me, this should still be the case with my new distro.
I reckon for gaming with and AMD GPU (Vega 64 here) it is quity mandatory to have the latest kernel, that's why I currently look at the above mentionend distros.
Any hints/meanings why I should choose one over the others?
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Manjaro's probably still pretty great. I've used Fedora and loved it. openSUSE Tumbleweed on my Nvidia desktop ran great (except with what I said in an earlier post). Tumbleweed on my AMD laptop was a nightmare to set up. Tried launching Steam a few times on different installs and there were things constantly missing from it. Don't know if it would be better on a rig with a dedicated graphics card since my laptop was a chipset hodgepodge deal.
I'm on Arch and it's been my one and only for quite a few months now. Manjaro might be a bit different because they hold back packages longer than Arch, but with either OS I've never had a problem. Just make sure you update fairly often (weekly if not daily). Don't know if you'll have other problems until they just happen, but that's with any system.