Why not use Arch which is Manjaro is based off? The Arch community is larger so support should be better. I have the 2013 mbp running Arch with Gnome and I really like it.
Oh, thanks for the idea! I actually want to migrate to arch a little bit at the time since I am not completely fluent in all the processes, and I would like to understand what each setting does. At the same time I want to have something that is functional from day one. Maybe I am overestimating the time needed to get arch running, I am a ubuntu/debian user through 11 years.