Linux distro recommendations

[classicdrogn]

I've been very satisfied with the XFCE desktop environment for Manjaro, this past year. I was a bit wary about the idea of a rolling release distro, but it's much more polite about doing the updates than basically anything I can think of, and the extra week or so of testing in the Arch community before things get added to Manjaro seems to be keeping the "broken by the update" blues away while still doing a decent job of keeping things, you know, up to date, without needing a major reinstall operation every six months like staying current with Ubuntu in whichever of it's many and varied flavors.

I will note that I built my machine with a second SSD specifically to use as a 'doze boot drive, because 'doze does not play well with others and I wanted the default boot up to be Linux, no mashing whatever key to get a bootloader. It's still amusing to me that Manjaro can boot from being switched off five times faster than Losedoze 10 can go from selecting its drive in the boot loader, though. Literally. I timed it.