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 would also like a GUI installer on EOS but I no longer like pamac.
You can install pamac on EOS no problem as it is in the AUR and yay is installed by default in EOS. So, it is just yay -S pamac-gtk
But, please do not install pamac on EOS.
A really great alternative is pacseek. It offers a text user interface ( TUI ). Give it a shot.