content: Here's an alternate view on Manjaro: Manjaro is a lot like Sabayon Linux. They take a REALLY good distribution, and fuck it up by messing with the package manager too much. In Manjaro's case, they decided to avoid using the stock Arch pacman repositories and use their own bullshit rebuilds of packages. So if you want to use instructions from Arch (because this is your first Linux, obviously), you're going to have a REAL bad time, because certain packages just plain won't be there as Manjaro decided in their infinite wisdom not to have them. KaOS also has this same flaw, but even less packages in its repo. Avoid pacman-based distributions that don't use Arch's repos unless you're either happy with the limited selections or really comfortable with compiling your own packages (and no, AUR doesn't count). Let's pretend Arch is a good distribution for people new to linux to try (it isn't). If you're going to install it, and you're too damned chicken-shit to just install Arch, use a distribution like Antergos or Bridge Linux, which acts as little more than a graphical installer for Arch. When you're done, you have a normal Arch system, which is pretty damned simple to maintain once you have everything up. There's a reason people suggest that Newbies use Mint: Ubuntu-based distributions are supported by damn-near every binary ever (with no headaches installing), and you get none of the 10,000 paper cuts that come with most Linux distributions (including Manjaro). Use Arch for bragging rights, not because you want a system that "Just Works (TM)". Writing this as a 16-year user of Gentoo, btw.