I've basically been fairly happy with Manjaro KDE. The thing that took away the biggest stumbling block in my previous testing is to update using the CLI . Manjaro is a little more aggressive concerning updating programs than I'd prefer. For example I just installed gnuCOBOL using pamac and it installed RC1 (release candidate #1) . I'd rather stick with the latest supported version. Although in all honesty RC1 seems pretty nice...so far.