The absolute state of the best advice in this thread
Thats going to be a cool write up
My core advice for TLDR below:
Run ANY distro you want that is sufficiently popular and non niche. Where it be based on Ubuntu and Debian or RHEL or Arch. If you go the arch route there is ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with manjaro. Its arch with sane defaults. Run it and enjoy it.
My advice when it comes to dealing with responses about distros and tools to @Rogue-agent and any clearly new Linux user or IT individual without any quality rigour of experience in the space..
People shill Linux distros like they do car miracles in a bottle and politicians. Almost all of it is snake oil. A linux distribution is nothing more than a Kernel, a base set of tools and compilers, some drivers and your favorite desktop environment. That is all. It does not matter which one you use. Use the one that makes your life comfortable. No need to reinvent the wheel!
One of my mother’s favorite sayings is “Use the right tool for the job” its common-sense advice that applies to a wide range of situations. This situation is an example.
^^ this is where you will find evidence to what I said. I hope you find answers in that wiki. Its last updated december 2020 but linux does not change much.
Statements like this have no basis in reality. Manjaro is fine for the newbie. There no reason to elaborately over complicate his setup. Learn linux like you learn ABCs and arch installs arent ABCs they are calculus.
Consider the VFIO and LG projects. They are great and KVM is great too. XEN is old and antiquated and any argument towards it tends to be people who really dislike corporate code in Linux which has no basis in any kind of reality since its open source and millions scrutinize it regularly. Your options are KVM and VFIO+LG. If you are going the VM route. Pick your poison 
In Linux and in IT, one generally calls that a “filesystem hierarchy”. Im not sure what your experience is in the field but official nomenclature is important when it comes to exchanging advice and providing solutions or diagnosis etc. I hope this helps you refer to it properly. Dynamic gravity made a great post summarizing it all.
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There are a lot of commands to learn. Baby steps are great. A good learner distribution can be Ubuntu, PopOS or Fedora. Manjaro breaks far less than arch (and this is proven) despite being on the same base. There are reasons for this beyond the scope of the thread and are irrelevant to the discussion so your choice of manjaro is sound. If you find it too dubious theres zero reason not to consider the alternatives. As I said people circle jerk linux distributions like its a calling from god. Most of the arguments are pointless or specific to use case. I hope that helps you navigate the “distro advice” world.
I dont see any basis for this opinion?
Absolutely and there’s no excuse for the behavior at this point. The application doesn’t give any care because they are perpetuating their “open document format” so fixing bugs in how they handle Office XML files I suspect is not high on their priority list which makes LibreOffice fairly trashy on Windows and Microsoft Office is still the gold standard in the industry, education and defense space. It will not go away because it really is just “good”. It works. I wouldn’t veer from it if you need to use it.
Additionally you can run the web version in the browser but for now its limited. Though Microsoft seems to want to change this which will be interesting. I would LOVE Microsoft Office on Linux.
Ease of use > esoterica. im an engineer I fix shit for a living. I do not want to fix my own shit. My systems are automated. I touch them very little. In Hind sight, I would choose a Synology any day.
Hence why distributions do not matter.