I've moved to Manjaro from arch due to a couple little things, and am so far pretty happy. Arch has some things that get broken or don't play nicely and I don't really have the time to read through all the wikis and stuff. My workstation is supposed to be a productivity machine, so I didn't want the hassle.
Manjaro seems to be a perfect mix of what makes arch great (specifically Pacman manager, the user repository, rolling updates, and completely modular design) with ease of install, installed packages that I install anyways like Libreoffice, and stability over arch's bleeding edge. I've noticed things just work together better in Manjaro, whereas id likely need to spend hours in arch to get them to where they are out of the box.
That being said, I reduced my windows partition to a fraction of what it once was for using windows specific apps like office and Adobe suites and a couple games. If I really want to, maybe I'll look into wine down the line. Linux is now my daily driver on my desktop, and macOS is still on my macbook, which allows me access to everything I don't have on my workstation. Creative types will want macOS, windows is for games, Linux is for doing the heavy lifting like data science, financial modelling, and running servers.
One thing I'll say is you honestly don't realise how much better your computer could run without all the bloatware on windows. I logged in yesterday to reduce my windows partition and my machine was throttling due to windows defender. I have a pretty powerful machine but that's insane that a piece of software that is necessary to run windows is taking up like 15-20% of my CPU's capacity. You don't realise it until you've built your own experience in Linux that your machine could be so much better.
It's been a long road but I'd definitely say Linux is where it's at if you want to get into the nitty gritty of how operating systems function, and actually use a lot of things that 90% of people would never touch in windows. It is super nice to run heavy apps without Linux breaking a sweat because it's not consuming resources elsewhere. There's a reason programmers use it.
Manjaro seems to be a perfect mix of what makes arch great (specifically Pacman manager, the user repository, rolling updates, and completely modular design) with ease of install, installed packages that I install anyways like Libreoffice, and stability over arch's bleeding edge. I've noticed things just work together better in Manjaro, whereas id likely need to spend hours in arch to get them to where they are out of the box.
That being said, I reduced my windows partition to a fraction of what it once was for using windows specific apps like office and Adobe suites and a couple games. If I really want to, maybe I'll look into wine down the line. Linux is now my daily driver on my desktop, and macOS is still on my macbook, which allows me access to everything I don't have on my workstation. Creative types will want macOS, windows is for games, Linux is for doing the heavy lifting like data science, financial modelling, and running servers.
One thing I'll say is you honestly don't realise how much better your computer could run without all the bloatware on windows. I logged in yesterday to reduce my windows partition and my machine was throttling due to windows defender. I have a pretty powerful machine but that's insane that a piece of software that is necessary to run windows is taking up like 15-20% of my CPU's capacity. You don't realise it until you've built your own experience in Linux that your machine could be so much better.
It's been a long road but I'd definitely say Linux is where it's at if you want to get into the nitty gritty of how operating systems function, and actually use a lot of things that 90% of people would never touch in windows. It is super nice to run heavy apps without Linux breaking a sweat because it's not consuming resources elsewhere. There's a reason programmers use it.
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