if you are willing for forget the minimal aspects, I would recommand garuda linux, it has an horrendous default theme and pretend to be for gamers, but in reality it is a solid arch install with good gui tools for updates and system maintenance, and it also has things pre-configured that would take a while for you to do, like the magical btrfs snapshots, which means if you or an update break something, you can make your system go back in time without losing any personal data all from the grub menu
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Nobara Linux (also aimed for gamers) has similar btrfs snapshots though not as intuitive and it’s not enabled by default also it’s based on Fedora. I have the KDE flavor as my main OS but I’ve never used the snapshot feature yet.
Are you using garuda ?
A friend of mine tried it and found garuda's tool really useful, but while setting his firewall, he realised that garuda send lots of data. It made him uninstall it immediatly.
If it's a concern for you, you might want to check that.
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If you're not a technical person, Fedora. I'd choose GNOME (ie the default) or KDE Plasma Wayland though. Wayland is far more secure than X(org), and that's what XFCE uses.
You should be able to switch that on the login screen, Fedora started to shit Wayland a little early for my taste but it works really well by now
Mint is very stable. But maybe take a look into the issues and confirm if it's actually manjaro causing the problem.
Non-technical, no break, stable: Linux Mint.
Regarding Manjaro, maybe try the Plasma version. I have several friends/relatives on it for the last few years and never have to fix problems for them. And these are not technical people.
Manjaro is not breaking it self. You are and you have to learn to prevent that. Going with some immutable is not going to teach you much.
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