Humanist, tinkerer, geek, student of life. Starting a new career journey after 25 years in I.T.

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  • I tried both Manjaro and Endeavour early in my distro hoping days. Endeavor, like others have said, is basically Arch with a good installer and some good defaults, but it is still Arch, which requires you to pay more attention and get more involved in your OS.

    Manjaro was kind of an “easier Arch” for me until they pushed an update and black-screened every one of my computers. Twice.

    After that, I was done, which is a shame because I rather liked it.





  • I’ve been doing PC hardware for over 25 years. This is likely related to your laptop display - either the cable connecting the panel to the motherboard, the panel itself, or some motherboard component connected to the display output that has failed.

    Try pivoting the display back and forth and see if the glitches change in response. If they do, it’s the cable.

    Beyond that, you’d need to do some testing to find the hardware component that has gone bad.




  • Do yourself a favor and skip the USB drive - they are ridiculously slow compared to a compact external SSD. I found a cheap m.2 enclosure on Amazon and put an old SSD in it and the speed difference is breathtaking.

    My SSD has a bunch of Linux distros grouped into folders along with Windows 10 & 11, every macOS from 10.13 to present, along with Rescuezilla, Hiren’s and a few others I can’t remember at the moment.

    Rescuezilla was my #1 go-to during my days of distro hopping. Makes it super easy to try out a distro on bare metal instead of a VM.