Linux Mint has been my primary distro for many years now, and admit I still like it. I find it amusing being called a noob, usually by some Arch user, while using linux for over 25 years. Yes I realize that Arch with 5000 YouTube tutorial videos, Stack Overflow and countless written tutorials that can easily be found on the Internet, using Google is almost impossible to install. Much harder the the mid 90s distros with buggy software and dependency hell and no google or YouTube. So call me a noob if it makes you feel better. Anyhoo...I've always wanted a fallback distro that is fundamentally different from my primary distro. And my search has led me to try a few. Manjaro was one I always wanted to like , but I always had some issue, usually updates, that stopped me from committing to it. Well a while back, I tried it again and have been using it more than Mint for a while now. I think the issues I had with it before are probably still there, but the big change is how I update it. Big changes...pacman command line...small individual program changes are fine using pamac GUI. Notice how similar the names are.
So am I ready to officially commit/switch to Manjaro, primary and Mint, backup?
Off the top of my head the only issue I have with Manjaro is Thunderbird Daily. Every time I start it a page is displayed saying The Daily release of Thunderbird can be unstable . My emails are important to me. So I'd rather them use the latest stable version.