I thought it was the GNU wizards circle that decides these things.
Are you telling me I have been going to the wrong meetings?!
I swear this Linux fragmentation will be the death of it.
It's also very important to vote carefully before deciding to have a baby. In most 1st world countries, you get a few family responsibilities leave days a year, that an employer cannot deny.
Under law in those countries, you are a parent first and an employee second. That comes with privileges and responsibilities.
I don't know Blender, but from experience I found that Manjaro/arch is a bit too bleeding edge for production use. Especially when it comes to non-gaming graphics. I experienced a lot of problems with Manjaro and GPU acceleration in video editing suites. All got solved when I switched to Linux Mint.
Similarly Zorin OS 17 has been good to me. I really like their approach to the Gnome UI (i.e. they kept the newest tech, and removed the space wasting UI components.
The Ubuntu based distros typically have fewer bugs as they typically have an older base.
Fedora is also a decent middle ground.
I would suggest logging a ticket or forum post with Blender on this. It could be a blender bug or a graphics bug, but they would be the best people to advise.
It's a lot better than having that CPU on Windows.
Yikes.