I just gave up on Manjaro. It may have been hardware related though, hopefully you have better luck.

I am having a great time with openSUSE LEAP tho. I’ve had a much easier time getting EVERYTHING to work. If you run into more problems, give it a try!

I just gave up on Manjaro. It kept giving me intermittent Wi-Fi, driver, and update issues which almost nuked my interview for the job I have today (having technical issues during your tech job interview isn’t a great look) . I don’t mind an occasional issue or doing some research, but it felt a little too regular w Manjaro.

(Alien M18, for context)

So now I’m on openSUSE LEAP, and have had a much smoother experience overall. Shit just works. The only change I’d consider atm is switching to tumbleweed.****

Also I’ve got an old laptop running Ubuntu as a media server. It works well

Praying they bring back different backgrounds for different desktops. 🤞🤞

Anecdotally: i got Google VPN free w my Google one sub, used it to pirate some movies. still got a warning from Comcast (for one of the star wars movies, iirc).

Went right back to Mullvlad. Speeds were better anyway.