I REALLY wanted to like Manjaro, but it was too buggy. When it was running, it was a smoother, more functional GUI than my barebones Openbox window-manager, which was great.

But... During the past 5+ years, I rarely ever had a problem with Arch Linux that is not 100% my fault. Manjaro... it had some problem every few days; updates DB would become corrupt, random freezes, login GUI would stop functioning...

I suppose my main complaint was that Manjaro could be great it it simply eased the installation and setup of Arch Linux. I do not understand why they use a completely separate repository. Hopefully they continue to improve!