With my desktop I have been on the Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia bus for years, while solid and easy ( I do not like to solve puzzles with my desktop OS ) It became

With my desktop I have been on the Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia bus for years, while solid and easy ( I do not like to solve puzzles with my desktop OS ) It became more and more appearant that they can't keep up, so parts of their distro are hopelessly outdated. Now I use an Arch based distro that is somewhat, but not very unstable, called Manjaro. It is not as suave as the Mageia distro but it does have a really massive Arch knowledge base, if you google problems with some part of linux then 9 out of ten times you see Arch based problem solving as top links.