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@dushman@den.raccoon.quest @gamer@bungle.online I believe the reason Manjaro initially got popular around 2016 or so was when the proprietary graphics drivers situation on GNU/Linux was really fucked. (nvidia sucked real bad and couldn't deliver working kernel modules and amdgpu didn't even exist yet).

Manjaro ships with this tool called mwhd that's integrated into the installer and desktop environments really well that allows people to usually install, configure and update their graphics drivers. It was the only distro at the time that offered something like this.

There was a big chance that if you had a hard type configuring your graphics on another distro it would "just work" on Manjaro specifically.

Nowadays this is not that relevant because graphics drivers suck a lot less and most other distros have similar features too that make graphics "just work".