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I did really like the look and feel of manjaro, which is why I picked it after playing with like 7 different live environments... But eventually things just started breaking during updates and it got worse and worse until I gave it up. From reading around now after the fact it seems trying to be a hybrid between rolling release and LTS causes fucky versioning/updates that can cause a lot of problems for some people. :/ it scared me off Linux entirely for about 3 years.
Probably, knowing more about Linux in general, I could have got it back to 100% again, but it was too much work for my skill level at the time.
Yeah, the only 'issues' I have had aren't specific to Manjaro, but they are specific to a rolling-release distro.
For example, normal updates will sometimes include major version changes of software. Programs like PostgreSQL need intervention in between major versions. This wouldn't happen with a point-release distro like Ubuntu or Debian until I upgrade between major versions of those.
This same issue would be present on Arch Linux.
That said, most software does play nicely and requires no intervention at all between versions, major or minor.