I've been running Manjaro on two desktops and one laptop for over two years now, without any of the problems that I'd experienced with Ubuntu, similar to the on

I've been running Manjaro on two desktops and one laptop for over two years now, without any of the problems that I'd experienced with Ubuntu, similar to the ones that you've mentioned. Recently I also installed it on an old Mac Pro 2012 and it runs beautifully there. I'm a lazy ass, I don't like fiddling with my tools to keep them working and Manjaro (and I'm assuming other Arch based distros) is the way to go IMO. Also XFCE beats Gnome hands down in stability and efficiency. Every Ubuntu desktop I've tried to maintain has eaten itself somehow. I've been using Linux for almost 20 years too! I also run multiple Mac and Windows systems and they are both way more work to keep running with my preferred configuration than Manjaro, especially around the time of major updates. I'll never go back to them for my main workstation and instead just use them for Windows/Mac specific stuff when necessary - and video games. There is only one problem I've never found a solution for on my Linux desktops: How to retain HDMI audio output as the default output after the display wakes up. I can probably script something to fix this after wake up, but I'm too lazy to look into it and luckily I don't do a lot of work with multimedia. All my entertainment stations are running Windows except for one.