Greetings, salutations, and Aloha!
I’ve been toying with linux off/on since the 90’s, either dual-booting with windows or distro-hopping in VM’s. In the past I ran SuSE, Fedora, Mint, and Ubuntu. I worked part-time as a developer for the windows DriverPacks project, and writing code for LinMin. I’ve always been intrigued by Arch and the rolling-release ethos. I recently bought a new laptop (Asus Zenbook S 16) to replace my aging tower system and it came with Windows 11 (sadly).
11 sucks! No, I don’t want OneDrive to move my files to the cloud. No, I don’t want copilot AI (the new Clippy) to step in and help. No, I don’t want any advertising “suggestions” in every OS interaction!
A month ago I decided to try Arch, and found the install experience not very intuitive and inadvertently borked the system several times before scrapping it to try Manjaro 25 (which lasted a week because it’s an unstable mess). Finally (should have been firstly), I found EOS, and everything worked! It’s a beautiful OS.
I’m still chasing a bug in the amdgpu kernel ‘driver’ that causes a full lockup, because my CPU/GPU is so new. According to the online discussion at freedesktop.org, the fix for my problem is in the latest 6.15-rc4 kernel, so I’ll just have to be patient for a few more weeks while Linus and team bake the kernel to a lovely golden brown for release.
I’m just happy to find a distro that covers 99% of what I need. Thank you!
@MrSmartepants, welcome to the Purple Family! 
Hello @MrSmartepants and welcome to the -Forum!
Hi, @MrSmartepants. Endeavour is like Manjaro done right isn’t it?!
Everything about Manjaro just felt unfinished. All flash and no substance.
Welcome to the forum !
In case you’re impatient, the linux-mainline is in the AUR, already available at version 6.15-rc4.
Welcome to the community 
Very true. I’ll give it a shot. I usually prefer to stay on the stable branch, but these freezes are super-annoying.
*Edit- compiled 6.15-rc4 and not a single freeze/crash. Awesome!
Welcome, @MrSmartepants, have fun with EOS.
Welcome! Good to have you with us! The 90’s were such a nutty time for Linux, - ordering distro CDs because your internet wasn’t even remotely functional, and balancing configuring your monitor versus frying it with the wrong refresh rate on xf86config..
It’s been quite the journey, - enjoy what’s next!
You can fix a lot of the issues with Manjaro by switching to their “unstable” repositories, but yeah it does kind of feel like a lot of good ideas carelessly put together.