Rolling releases are cool but I don't miss that manual installation at all. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with what Manjaro is trying to do - their maintainers are just bad. There's other Arch derivatives and bleeding edge distros out there for sure. I just don't have any experience with them.

Also GPU drivers were always a huge pain in any distro as far as I recall.

:torvalds-nvidia: User error honestly, but I've never had another distro that didn't just upgrade the kernel at some point in the normal cycle. I kept forgetting about their kernel selection script and it wasn't really the driver's fault.