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by znpy 2206 days ago
Interesting, what distro did you move to?
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I took a shot and tried Manjaro. After using it for a few weeks, I can say that I absolutely love it, and will be a Manjaro user for a long time on my personal machines. For new users, I have been recommending Pop_OS.
I used Manjaro for about two years on my Dell XPS, and everything was a constant hassle: features I needed weren't set up by default, stuff broke constantly. Usually it wasn't too bad, so I just fixed it and moved on.

Then my laptops ability to connect to WiFi broke, and there was no way I could figure out to solve it. So I made a new partition, installed Pop_OS, moves my old home directory to this one, and was done with it. Pop_OS has been amazing - I always liked GNOME 3, and Pop Shell really helps in that dept.

Not OP but I have the same grievance. I moved to Fedora on my dev machines.
I moved to Fedora several years ago after getting fed up with Canonical. While it hasn't been entirely pain-free, I experience a lot less pain than I used to. Even OS upgrades alone, always work on Fedora. Modern Fedora is the most "just works" distro there is IMHO (but I'm still mad at Canonical, so am probably biasing my opinion with emotion).
I was using Ubuntu since 07, but recently changed my machine to Manjaro and love it.

The AUR is work of genius.

I still build all my containers at work with Ubuntu though.