I've used linux distros for a variety of tasks in the past but am finally committed to moving my primary machine to it. This is mostly used for games, writing, development, and web browsing. I've selected Manjaro as my distro.
Anyone have any tips or suggestions? Software to install. Things to keep in mind. Cool things to do you couldn't on windows?!
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If you're moving to a rolling release like Manjaro, make sure you update frequently. Would be best to get familiar with pacman, particularly to blacklist and rollback certain updates just in case, and check the arch front page regularly. I really like rolling release distros and wouldn't use any other distros for personal computing, but I have a somewhat tight control of what packages I have and stuff still breaks though nothing major. After years of using arch I've manage to fix everything except a conky update which wrecked it, rolling back saved my workflow.
Oh and yeah modifying the UI aka ricing is pretty cool on Linux. I grew weary of it after I lost all my configs on an hdd failure so I mostly stick to KDE, but I had a pretty sweet i3 setup previously. If you have time to spare and don't mind breaking stuff, I suggest you explore different DEs or try to setup a minimal environment with just a window manager, see how it goes for you.
I've got KDE plasma for the moment. Enjoying it. Have tried gnome and cinnamon before. May with free time experiment because a minimal environment could be fun. But not a huge priority