What computer are you using? If you don’t mind me asking.
I see they could add another solution to their standard solution: RTFM 
First of all, a 10 years old machine is not a serious issue. I have 2 Laptops that age or more running seamlessly with KDE Plasma after I upgraded RAM.
My experience after distrohopping for a year Arch based are the best. EndeavourOS is the best of the best for many reasons, including:
- no bloat
- best forum/ community ever (on Linux since 2000). I could even get support here for apps not EndeavourOS specific better than I could get from the developers.
My advice to be sure you will have a smoothly running system, it is much better to have at least 8 GB of RAM.
Less than that it will be hard to run more than one app or open multiple tabs in browser.
Furthermore, if you get 8GB of RAM you can seamlessly use KDE Plasma.
I hope this helps.
My hardware:-
Hp Probook laptop 16gb Ram 1TB sata HDD circa 2015
Asus laptop 16gb Ram 1TB sata HDD circa 2012
The reason for hostile attitude was, I needed to rollback the kernel to 5.15 not 6.1. That’s on this rig Asus.
I thought adding my post was to help any one who had similar issues. The 6.1 kernel froze every thing. Browsers, Libreoffice etc…
However, I have installed EOS on my Hp which can handle the new kernel no problem. It’s going to take some configuring but that’s what I imagined. This, IMO, is how all distros should be configured. You add what suites you. It seems a lot of linux distros are going the way of M$, bloatware.
Why is it necessary to roll back? Isn’t the latest LTS kernel 5.15? You can install multiple kernels on Manjaro as well, right?
Hi @Cencar
This is more than perfect.
I do not know your system details, bootloader…etc.
But it is generally recommended to use the LTS Kernel. Try it and see how it goes and let me know.
I am sure the experts here can help you have the kernel you need, but it will get updated anyway! So, again, maybe LTS would help. If you are going to reinstall give KDE Plasma a try. You already have enough RAM.
Maybe post inxi -Fxxx output can help.
Slow down guys all is well
anthony93: you are correct LTS is 5.15 but the manjaro v22.0 iso loaded 6.1 which I did not pick up immediately. That’s why I posted, to help others that where having problems system freezing etc…
limotux: and to answer your question. Yes after I have the HP up and running, I will delve into the problems of Asus.
I don’t want to get off on the wrong foot by polluting this Newbie category. I’ll try and post tech questions in the right category, when needed.
I see. Sorry for misunderstanding. I guess I got a little confused when you said you had to downgrade to 5.15.
Even older laptops support 64-bit architecture. I have a functional HP Compaq 6730s entry-level business laptop, which is not a modern day product, but has 64-bit support. I use it for testing purposes, including Manjaro Linux stable and openSUSE Tumbleweed, and it runs Linux Mint. I think I could easily install EndeavorOS on it as well.
If you have used other Linux distributions, I think you have become familiar with the basic Linux commands that can be used in the terminal. When using EndeavourOS, there are actually other Arch-specific commands that are slightly different from the Linux commands you know so far, and pacman is probably the most used of these, so it’s worth getting to know it more closely. I admit that it takes some getting used to for those who, for example, mainly used the apt command until now. Thus, EOS will be just as good a sheep in your hands as, for example, Linux Mint.
Hi @Cencar
This is more than perfect.
I do not know your system details, bootloader…etc.
But it is generally recommended to use the LTS Kernel. Try it and see how it goes and let me know.
I am sure the experts here can help you have the kernel you need, but it will get updated anyway! So, again, maybe LTS would help. If you are going to reinstall give KDE Plasma a try. You already have enough RAM.
Maybe post inxi -Fxxx output can help.
The Manjaro forum is known for being a vile environment. Pls don’t let that reflect on the distro itself.
Right-O! For exactly that reason I went back from labour-intense EOS back to Manjaro. That said, I received nothing but very polite help here in the EOS forum. Highly recomended. And thinking about it, once you got your system running, and don’t bother installing new updates, like, every 30 minutes, EOS is the bestest OS evarrr! It is, after install, pure ArchLinux! Something Manjo will never be.
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Actually. … That’s pretty spot on.
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I never identified Manjaro Linux with its community. Manjaro is a great project. This was the first Arch-based distribution I came across.
The fact is that Manjaro comes with a lot of things out of the box, so it’s more beginner friendly, but it’s also true that while I’ve been using it, I’ve still run into more bugs than I ever have when using Antergos/EndeavourOS.
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Oh! 
How come? 
I’m running Manjo with interruptions since ver. 0.83 (late 2013) or sumfink. Am now back fullltime since I left EOS, like a year ago or so. No probs whatsoever. Runs like clockwork.
Replace HDD with SSD and these PCs will start flying. For Linux these PCs are not old at all.
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I do not know. Maybe because the Manjaro Stable packages are updated less often than EOS, which is much closer to Arch, so the bugs that often come from Arch remain unfixed for longer than in the case of EOS.
Yes, that guy is right. For actual Linux questions the EOS forum is ideal! Super duper frenly and really helpful. They “prayed” me thru an Nvidia installation … and I didn’t need to RTFM at all. Ok, now on Manjo I don’t need either, neither forum nor the FM. Shit is adorable like Mint, just werkz.
Thanks for the complement.
I just stated that after being on Linux since 2000. Since I started I found no forum/community/developers as here.
The core concept about “open source”/Linux is that users, developers… ARE the community, a community nobody has an upper hand! This is here, only here.
I repeat again, I could get support here for apps that are not even Arch specific, normal apps better, faster and effective than I got from the developers themselves.
A wonderful distro and a wonderful community.
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What? That is a gross comment - and bashing at best.
The Linux kernel is complex and may cause issues over time - especially when running an Arch based system.
The majority Arch based distributions (Manjaro not withstanding) operates only with the latest LTS and the latests mainline kernel as defined on https://kernel.org
There is also a few other kernels but they are tuned from the latest mainline.
If you - for some reason - usually hardware related - need a specific kernel you need to build it yourself.
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I’m more than happy to leave the upper hand to the experts, and just ride along. 