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 don't understand the hate. I have been using Manjaro as my sole OS on two machines (a Thinkpad with XFCE, a Surface with Gnome) for several years, and have never had any major problem. Everything just works. The same could be said of Mint (which I used to be on before Manjaro), but I enjoy having faster updates on Manjaro.
So I guess, from experience, I am very happy with it.