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That's a pretty serious misconception. There are a few high profile Linux apps which for some inscrutable reason use GTK, that is true, but I'm putting a serious question mark for "most". Not to mention that the trend actually is that applications which used to use GTK in the past has or are in the process to or have switched to QT, like Wireshark, VLC and the LX desktop.

If you have a quick look at this list over at Manjaro, you'll see that Qt has you pretty well covered, unless you absolutely insist on Chrome(ium), Libreoffice and Firefox, which all seem to favour GTK because of lacking competence and legacy reasons.

I got meself a refurbished ThinkPad X220 for college and portable web development, pimped it out with 8GB RAM and a 250GB SSD and thought I'd try something new off the beaten Debian/Ubuntu track.
Manjaro i3 seemed like a nice candidate. And sure enough, it holds up nicely. Rolling updates (manjaro is arch based) and i3 is a very neat tiling WM that's really fast and nice and easy to configure. The manjaro i3 defaults are nice as is the turquoise on dark-grey design. Technical but still modern and sleek.

Manjaro is the new kid on the block and might just be yet another passing distro-fad but for now it holds up and I'm enjoying it. yaourt is a CLI tool for installing non-standard packages and so far everything I've needed could be found on AUR.

Bottom line: Wanna try something new with i3 as default? Yours truly recommends Manjaro i3. Give it a shot,

Use Manjaro: http://www.manjaro.org./ It's based on Arch, so Manjaro is to Arch as Ubuntu/Neon is to Debian. They have a great KDE version of the distro, and they've integrated their hardware driver manager into the Plasma 5 System Settings.

Why is it outdated thinking and what changes do you have in mind?
Remember that version numbers are mostly intended for developers (to keep track of code revisions), not end-users. My only gripe with version numbers would be that every developer seems to use their own definition of what's a major or a minor revision, rendering the decimal point moot.
But in the end, an arbitrary number is just that: an arbitrary number — and if you rather don't want to deal with that, Manjaro may be a distro for you.

Try Manjaro - it's basically an Archlinux that do not get borked on upgrades, and with installer! Manjaro openrc edition - https://forum.manjaro.org/t/ma...

Manjaro is Arch-based and comes with the XFCE desktop by default. There is even a build available in the forums that uses OpenRC as a systemd alternative.

Much slicker end-user experience than Ubuntu with Unity, IMHO. But if you do settle on Ubuntu, Mint would be the way to go though I would still recommend Manjaro (and/or XFCE).

I should really give you a mod point, but there's something I need to get off my chest about Ubuntu.

I mean... No fallback mode when graphic acceleration is missing? Seriously???

So here's the story. There's an HD 4670 in my dad's PC. Because of AMD (so the root of the problem isn't Ubuntu, but please bear with me), there are issues with using the legacy version of the Catalyst drivers. That's on Ubuntu 13.04. First, I added a well-known PPA to circumvent the problem (that is, get back 3D acceleration), but it reappeared a while ago.

Now, I know I could use the non-proprietary drivers. But that's not what I'm complaining about. My complaint against Ubuntu is — like I said above —, it doesn't offer you a fallback mode when graphic acceleration fails. That kind of thing is standard across all operating systems. You ought to be able to continue to use your machine when some superfluous feature suddenly stops working (unless said use requires said feature, of course).

I was a bit reluctant to install Manjaro on my dad's PC then, thinking that the constant upgrades — yes, it's a rolling-release distro — would break something sooner or later. No, sir... it's been running like a charm ever since.


My €0.02.

You might be interested in Manjaro Linux, an excellent Arch deritative. It's Arch, but much more stable and less complex. http://manjaro.org/

You might want to try Manjaro Linux. It's based on Arch, so it's a rolling release, but they have their own repositories for testing updated packages before release. Plus, their installer is much less of a hassle than Arch's, including an automatic graphics card driver installer.