Sorry, I could’ve been clearer!
Ubuntu when I first tried it back when it was ubutntu 9.04 was amazing as it was different but it wasn’t anywhere as user friendly as manjaro or most other OSes are now. At the time it was miles ahead of the competition, but that gap has closed significantly.
But the point being is that I tried with 9.04, 12.04 and probably a couple later releases and the system never stayed functioning for long, and became slower that it seemed to be with earlier releases, whereas I found the snappiness/relative ease of installation etc with a different OS.
I think what I’m saying is: when Ubuntu was the only offering for user friendly Linux it was amazing, but now that it’s not the only flavour striving to provide that experience it feels clunky and outdated.
And I too made that mistake with manjaro at one point, borking the install by not consistently updating it.
What “just works” for some people doesn’t “just work” for others.
Couldn’t have put it better myself
Flashbacks to me having borked my manjaro install trying to update after having gotten stable diffusion running on older AMD hardware, and subsequently panicking and fucking it up more trying to repair it