I dunno what the plural of “Manjaro” is.
For me the experience has been:
- Stable
- Easy to use
- Enjoyed all the Arch niceness in the meantime.
Which imo makes it a good distro,
idiots would not make a good distro…
Sure the people behind it made some doubtful decisions in the past, but that doesn’t change the fact that using it has been a bliss.
Additionally, it’s all open source,
so if they would ever turn anti-consumer,
it can be forked into another distro.
As I mentioned earlier, stop the distro hate.
I’m not throwing acquisitions against other distros, instead I let people enjoy whatever flavor of Linux they desire…
By now I helped a fair amount of Arch and other distro users through Lemmy / AUR / Issues, and I also learned a fair amount of Arch / Manjaro and other distro users.
Linux is not the enemy here,
not a single flavor…
I still see no point of using Manjaro when it’s still basically crippled Arch. Why not use Arch itslef? If installation is too much, there’s archinstal or EndeavourOS. It’s just puzzling to me.
To clear it up, I don’t use either of them. But if I had to pick, I’d go with Endeavour much rather than Manjaro.
I went with Manjaro due to the way they do their package releases.
Arch is bleeding edge,
a double edged sword if you ask me,
all the latest versions,
and all the bugs that come along with them.
I’m looking for stability in my daily driver though.
Manjaro keeps releases a few weeks back on their stable branch.
And tests the releases first on their unstable and testing branches.
Resulting in near bleeding edge with enhanced stability on the stable branch.
I used to think like you but have been using endeavouros for the last 2 years or so and never felt like I an lacking stability.
Manjaro offers a stable branch, pamac, upgrade snapshots, package manager, kernel manager, driver manager, and is optimized for LTS kernels. It takes a lot of the edge off Arch.
If that’s not something you need that’s fine. Some of us do.
Packages delayed by a week or so is not “stable”, in either sense of the word
In fact, that can break things. Especially with AUR use
