For new users and really for anyone - I'd recommend Manjaro over Ubuntu. I've been giving Linux desktops a shot for over a decade and I finally switched a year

For new users and really for anyone - I'd recommend Manjaro over Ubuntu. I've been giving Linux desktops a shot for over a decade and I finally switched a year ago because installing software on Manjaro is so easy compared to any other distro I've used. It's also been rock solid on 2 of my desktop systems and 1 laptop, with all the features that I want working, including power management and advanced touchpad gestures. Recently as an experiment I tried Xubuntu again when someone here pointed out how you can't get .NET Core 3.0 working on Manjaro yet - however, after (painfully) setting up Xubuntu with my standard kit of software including docker, vscode, beyond compare, programming languages, and UI tweakers like xdotool, wmctrl among very many others - after 1 or 2 weeks - it wouldn't boot (due to a bad update?) Not the first time I've had this happen with Ubuntu. Then I replaced Xubuntu with Manjaro, did the same setup in half the time in order to figure out which .NET Core 3.0 packages to install without messing with my other machines. I figured i out -the correct packages end in -bin, e.g. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dotnet-sdk-bin https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dotnet-sdk-bin . Everything has been fine for a few weeks now, just like my other 3 machines... Maybe I setup Xubuntu incorrectly. I didn't use the Snap software distributions available through Xubuntu's default GUI installer. I used the command line at first and i installed Synaptics, added separate repositories for various publishers... I might have used a mix of CLI and GUI to install stuff. If I had only used what the default installer offered, things might have been stable for longer... But I used both CLI and GUI to install stuff on my other Manjaro stations and didn't have any of these problems, so that's why I recommend it. Also, XFCE does a clean and simple Windows style GUI better than Windows 10, where I normally have to install "7+ taskbar tweaker" to get the taskbar features that I like, such as middle clicking to close a window in the taskbar or allowing me to drag and drop taskbar items to arrange them instead of forcing them into groups.