I am a Linux noobie and have only used Mint for around six months now. While I have definitely learned a lot, I don’t have the time to always be doing crazy power user stuff and just want something that works out of the box. While I love Mint, I want to try out other decently easy to use distros as well, specifically not based on Ubuntu, so no Pop OS. Is Manjaro a possibly good distro for me to check out?
Fedora is nice, not based on Ubuntu, and it mostly “just works” out of the box. The only obnoxious part is having to manually install codecs to play videos.
Yeah fedora has some issues out of the box, when I first installed it most videos failed to load, including youtube. Only to realize 30 minutes later that the issue was missing codecs… they also modified firefox to not install h264. The repo’s are also quite limited due to their extreme stance on OSS.
These issues are easily solveable at least: codecs, h264 and for the repo’s ticking the rpmfusion toggle boxes in gnome-software.
Other than that I’m very happy with it, I just wish it wouldn’t be so pedantic out of the box as it just pushes beginners away.