I am a Linux noobie and have only used Mint for around six months now. While I have definitely learned a lot, I don’t have the time to always be doing crazy power user stuff and just want something that works out of the box. While I love Mint, I want to try out other decently easy to use distros as well, specifically not based on Ubuntu, so no Pop OS. Is Manjaro a possibly good distro for me to check out?
I used to use it. I updated and twice on mobile, twice on desktop, it broke my OS. I wouldn’t touch it again.
Mint is great. Your specification is quite restrictive and will potentially open you up to suffering. Mint doesn’t use snaps so not sure why you’d want to avoid.