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Hello, I've been using manjaro xfce for a few months now and I'm starting to wonder if I would enjoy any other distros more, I'm not really a technical person but I really do enjoy linux so i'm willing to learn new things.

I'm looking for a distro that is minimal while not being too complex, (Manjaro keeps breaking itself for a laugth)

Please leave distro recommendations in the comments below I will be sure to play with them in live boot or in a Vm.

Thank you and have a good day, Sebo

#Update: I tryed openSUSE Tumbleweed, EndevourOS and Arch and so far I'm enjoying arch the most (I installed it with help of the wiki and a youtube guide)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Arch install is much lighter, Endeavour like many other linuxes, installs programs that you may or may not require. I prefer adding programd when I require them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't endeavourOS give an option to select(or unselect) packages which are to be installed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

this may not be what you have in mind when you said no but this does offer some level of customization of the install. Yes arch is much more configurable during install though