Manjaro Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Manjaro Linux Average rating 8.1 from 451 review(s) Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Manjaro Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- stable25.0.424.2.123.1.422.1.321.3.020.2.119.018.1.017.1.1216.10.315.120.8.110.8.8 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 25.0.4 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-06-26 Votes: 4 Manjaro is that one distribution you can rely on. I have been using only Microsoft Windows for all my life as a PC operating system, but because of ubiquitous cons of it, which amount was only increasing, I decided to move on Linux. From scratch. It was not that easy to find a proper distro as a noob. If something working just fine on VM, doesn’t mean it will do the same on your PC. After days of forums, ISOs and fine working, but disappointed distros, I found Manjaro. The installation was smooth and simple without any issues. It also detected all the hardware, only driver that I needed to install manually was a graphics on. KDE Plasma was smooth, sleek, very easy to use around. Software manager can help you to graphically install wanted applications. Terminal with zsh was also graphic, but with choice of pre-installed shells, so you can get more classic one like bash. I never felt like there’s a lack if functionality, it’s even better for me then on Windows 10/11. Arch roots are not painful while remaining powerful and greatly supported by community. I get used to terminal soon after learning some very basics of it. Stability was also rock solid, nothing ever faulted or needed to be recompiled manually. I now use it on my main and pretty beefy PC. Reinstalled once for new version. Recommend. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: stable Rating: 3 Date: 2025-06-26 Votes: 0 I repeatedly want to like Manjaro. It is slick out of the box, and typically works well enough for a short amount of time, but every time I've really tried to stick to it, bugs and errors would creep in after updates eventually that make the system unusable. For a long time I thought that was just "the linux experience", and had lost hope. I've had a couple of friends that tried it as well, even so far as recommending it to me again, but after a few months suddenly we are at DnD and Manjaro won't even boot. Or we are trying to play a game and the game we have played together countless times just crashes to desktop. I wish Manjaro was not recommended so often to people coming from Windows, because it is not stable. It will eventually break, and those people will think "man, if I can't get one of the most recommended versions of linux to work, I guess I should go back to windows". I know I did several times over the years. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: stable Rating: 10 Date: 2025-06-23 Votes: 7 I'm a non technical user who has been using Linux since about a decade. I can get by with most technical issues if they are documented (AI helps nowadays) through the CLI. Manjaro happens to be my favourite distro and my go-to now, for every computer I use. It is simple, flexible and I almost never have any issue with it. It's rock solid, lean and easy to maintain and use. I use it every day on my personal work computer (non technical, once again). I use the KDE desktop along with it, which has an associated theme (fairly basic but elegant). Everything works perfectly out of the box, the installation is fast, and for the first time in my life, an install lasted for literal years instead of just a few months. Because of no issues whatsoever and because I stopped feeling the need to distro hop. Great job to the Manjaro team, I am very satisfied by this operating system. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 451 reader reviews of Manjaro Linux...