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.

I would definitely be in favor of having a swinger community here (text only). That subreddit was quite a help for newbies.

Are you sure it exists and / or that the link is right? I can't find the community, sadly.