Pop!_OS vs Manjaro - What is the best Linux Distro?

I'm afraid you exaggerate waaaay too much for my liking. Credibility = 0

Kodachi

Pop crashes on my pc after launching Opera browser, Manjaro crashes on launch from LiveCD!
weird :-\ just wanted to try linux after 10 years i left my tries to migrate...
P.S. KDE Neon LiveD won`t launch at all.
Fedora unfortunatelly not support legacy bios for now...

Thank you for this video! I’ve been hoping for years that another option besides windows and mac would become available for general daily usage. I have known about linux for many years but always felt it wouldn’t be realistic to use as a daily driver. I finally installed Pop OS onto my laptop this weekend and i absolutely LOVE IT. I’m so ready to be done with Windows and all of its intrusive, shady practices. Very cool to see that we finally have other options!!!

PopOS is probably the best bet if you have one computer you use for a lot of different things (like me). Manjaro is a great option if you have a dedicated system for gaming, and are familiar with terminal. To me though, I really like the stability of PopOS, while still getting a very modern UI that is intuitive and straightforward, and native support for many devices without having to constantly fight with drivers.

pop os pita to set up and update, linux tinkering needed. especially to set up lutris wine and wow. PITA!

Did not watch the video. I've used many versions of both and Manjaro wins...hands down...all day every day. Its not even close.

I used Pop os almost a year and was great, now in manjaro. Right now I prefer manjaro :D

I need my continual app updates, and I need my Plasma. Cannot live without them.

And when is Mom! OS coming out?

gotta be real witchu, pop os is for soyboys

Manjaro is Arch Linux

The best alternative I've found to Pop!_OS is staying on Ubuntu

I wish I could get the Manjaro philosophy with a Debian based distro... Not a fan of the AUR, so I basically use snaps and flatpaks for many things. ( not many companies have "official" versions of apps other than .deb and sometimes .rpm )

Anthony is truly a respectable person in linux community

NOTE: Add/Remove software really is just Pamac, so you can get that from the AUR if you need that.

I tired but my older systems wouldnt take it. Kept getting flags trying both versions for intel and nvidia drivers but still kept running hard n lagging up. Maybe i messed up but more likely the age and lack of graphics. Even using a DVD boot.. nah. For Manjaro it ran quieter than ever so cant say i wasnt noticing. May end up being the laptop os. But i downloaded a dozen or so to try.. 2 dozen

O have several projects... And game systems that accept linux. Funny my first two experiences besides raspian a bit.. those two. Pop just wouldnt be happy with it, kept hanging on the loading. So far manjaro just worked and worked well on a 10 year old laptop having issues inside. Enough i could test some things where it had just kept running itself to a crash. Tried cinnamon and so far its my fav being pop made finding the disk drive impossible for a new user. tho ill try it again on a different system. For now i downloaded garuda and fedora to try for graphics and a few just to try out different options before i settle. Mint was what I settled on for now but manjaro drive is still right here and im working on 5 pcs.

I'm a happy user of ZorinOS. Works like a charm.

manjaro obviously, pop is trash tbh, idk why you'd use pop and not just ubuntu

Very good video and just what I was looking for.
Ill choose manjaro

For me best are mx linux, fedora and opensuse.

i love both of them 🤩...i use kde for manjaro...looks pretty hi tech and it should..as manjaro is considered "bleeding edge" ...also the forum is very helpful and friendly...from the other hand Pop Os is pretty smooth fast and has amazing amd powerful hardware support (thanks system 76!) I think this two distros will become mainstream soon as windows can't Keep up with open software..when gaming comes to Linux .... it's over...is just a matter of time

Manjaro kde is the best desktop I've heard of even though I've never tried it for myself when I was researching this desktop it has a lot of great features that I don't think Nome has.

Very insightful. Loved the end when you explain that you personally use both, Manjaro for production work and Pop OS for writing... but what about gaming ?! 😆

Arch

neither of these worked well for me, MX Linux all the way!!

I use Manjaro - KDE Plasma. <3

Thanks for video. I'd recommend you add a low cut filter on your audio to remove the background hum.

Add/Remove software is actually pamac which can be used from CLI as well unlike pop shop.

I don't like either but I think I like manjaro over popOS.
Still does everything I need it to

I've also used Manjaro, but it has been awhile.

I use Pop OS for my machine learning as it is very easy. It comes preinstalled with Nvidia video drivers, Cuda preinstalled and it is easy to install Cudnn and install tensorflow and other packages needed for my needs. It is also a pleasure to use otherwise and everything is setup to run Steam too, so it is great for gamed if you like to buy your games on Steam.

I use to love Manjaro, I've used it for about 5 months. I don't do system wide changes, i used it mainly for watching, listening to music and artworks and some video editing on Kdenlive. Until recently it gave me headache, unstable symptoms, like turning off suddenly and various other things. Also it boots slow overtime ( i don't use snap), i use regular hdd but pop!_os boots faster, i'm on 2nd week, so far i 'm loving it!

I have been trying Linux Distro's for over 15 years. My conclusion of people who use Linux on purpose. These are the same people who would be told. If you keep doing that you going to kill yourself. They just keep doing it as they die and say this is fine I'm sure this will turn out fine. Your drowning man learn to swim. Their response water has oxygen I can't die there is oxygen in the water. I will be fine. Please stay away from it. It is the work of the devil that will drive you insane. Just look at this poor guy. He is already dead inside. Talking with any kind of emotion is foreign to him. He even says it. If you don't mind fixing things your going to be more than fine. This man thinks suffering is normal everyday.

like someone else said, if you're on Nvidia and think your machine's too new for full compatibility, just try Pop OS since it's NVIDIA support is solid & mostly automated.

The intro to the video felt kinda shoehorned. Usually the tapped "top Linux distros" are like Ubuntu, Mint and then everything else. I've never heard of Manjaro/Pop OS being the two gods, maybe in the gaming community, but also Ubuntu kind if dominates that space as well. That said, I've always simped hard for Mint but the last time I tried to game on Mint I found that Lutris wasn't supported. Grr. So I installed Ubuntu, Lutris worked but now the driver manager was more confusing than mint GRR. Now I'm trying Manjaro. I have tried to install arch before (and failed) I also ran Antergos for a while before it was binned. Manjaro wins. Pop Os is interesting. Perhaps one day I'll check it out. But I'm interested in developing apps and mixing music so I like the idea of having the AUR handy, for no particular reason really, it just sounds useful.

Thanks for this, have used pop os but I always seem to go back to Manjaro kde

In Pop OS you can not even minimize a window, that is not very friendly Gnome imho.

Being that G(uh)NU is GNOME's first name, GNOME is officially pronounced "guh-NOME". It is NOT Gnome as in "home:".

Using Manjaro right now and love it. I have 3 desktops attached to it which are gnome, cinnamon, and KDE. I switch depending on how I feel. Currently using gnome because of the snow extension that falls down the screen. Gnome seems more like a better desktop when it comes to adding different features in a simple way with extensions. I don't mind arch and just know that when using the terminal I have to use "sudo pacman -S" to install apps instead of the "sudo apt install" of pop os. I am i young Linux who has been using it for the past 10 years or so but still learning as I go along. I love pop since i first started using it in the early days. If i had a big enough hard drive and I could do more than the dual boot i have now i would have triple boot Manjaro, Popos and win11 as backup.

I used Pop OS for a while as my first linux distro, but I HATE Gnome and other desktops were messy to use in Pop OS, which only officially supports Gnome. I also had several annoying graphical bugs with Pop OS. Manjaro in KDE Plasma is perfect for me with gaming and regular use. Plus the AUR kicks ass!

Protip: If you're using Manjaro for gaming, consider this before thinking of using XFCE. If you turn off mouse acceleration in XFCE, it will slow your cursor down, and there is no mouse cursor speed option to speed the cursor back up without acceleration. I think KDE is best.

The best GNU/Linux distro is Debian end of the story

I made a mistake choosing pop os.

Shots fired!

arch hate my wifi dongle and so is manjaro 😅

EndevaourOS > Manjaro

I really liked pop OS but the sound issues were too much to deal with and after struggling without any sound for a week and constantly searching the internet for fixes that didn't work anyway, I decided to switch over to Manjaro. Manjaro had no sound problems and it installed flawlessly without any problems. But I still couldn't find any working solutions to the sound problems in Pop OS.

Another thing to mention is that I recently switched over to linux from windows and I am by no means a linux veteran, which made solving issues like this much harder. But so far, I haven't got any issues with Manjaro.

Good comparison!

Manjaro is not a good operating system. It is designed to break over time, all you have to do is regularly install/uninstall packages and it is guaranteed to break because of their wacky practice of holding packages back for a week. You should have done some research before making this video...