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I'm surprised they didn't consider something like Manjaro Linux. I used Ubuntu for 10 years and just recently switched to Manjaro with i3 and I'm not looking ba

I'm surprised they didn't consider something like Manjaro Linux. I used Ubuntu for 10 years and just recently switched to Manjaro with i3 and I'm not looking back, it is that good.

mrweasel 9y ago
If you have 10000+ machines, then you already have the infrastructure to building deb packages, and experience in running apt/dpkg based system, then the jump to Debian is much smaller than jumping to Manjaro/Arch. There's a huge difference in you switching your single desktop to a different distribution and switching an organisation the size of Google. Going with Debian brings then closer to "upstream", while leaving them with a base installation that isn't much different.
b3lvedere 9y ago
I've tried Manjaro long ago, but these days i really like Debian. Never liked Ubuntu that much. I think Debian is really fast, small and easy to setup, but that's totally my perspective. I'm just a novice and still have to google lots of stuff. :) What does Manjaro offer better than Debian if i may ask?
- yulapshun 9y ago
  It's based on Arch so packages will always kept up to date. I don't know about Debian, but the system will break every time I try to run do-release-upgrade on Ubuntu. I've been using Manjaro for over a year now, never had any problem.
  - bildung 9y ago
    Pretty sure thats Ubuntu specific. I have machines here that run the "same" Debian installation for 10 years, doing dist-upgrades every few years and switching the disks (or the whole machine) underneath. Its one of the things I love Debian for.
  - mikedelfino 9y ago
    Debian Sid would be the equivalent to a rolling distro, as far as updated packages go. I find it pretty stable for desktop use.
akerro 9y ago
Manjaro? The distribution that told users to change their clocks back on their OSs to get updates working? The one that last year couldn't patch Firefox for over 1 month because two package maintainers were on holidays, but Arch patched in one day? They can't even sort out bugs in package updater (recently leaking memory - 2.4GB RAM usage to update 120 packages?!). Last week I moved to openSUSE from Manjaro and it was really good decision, works better, it's faster, ex-Windowsers love it because of YaST2 [1] GUI manager for everything https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/YaST2-2.18.25.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/YaST2-2....
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I'm surprised they didn't consider something like Manjaro Linux. I used Ubuntu for 10 years and just recently switched to Manjaro with i3 and I'm not looking back, it is that good.

mrweasel 9y ago

If you have 10000+ machines, then you already have the infrastructure to building deb packages, and experience in running apt/dpkg based system, then the jump to Debian is much smaller than jumping to Manjaro/Arch. There's a huge difference in you switching your single desktop to a different distribution and switching an organisation the size of Google. Going with Debian brings then closer to "upstream", while leaving them with a base installation that isn't much different.

b3lvedere 9y ago

I've tried Manjaro long ago, but these days i really like Debian. Never liked Ubuntu that much. I think Debian is really fast, small and easy to setup, but that's totally my perspective. I'm just a novice and still have to google lots of stuff. :) What does Manjaro offer better than Debian if i may ask?

yulapshun 9y ago
It's based on Arch so packages will always kept up to date. I don't know about Debian, but the system will break every time I try to run do-release-upgrade on Ubuntu. I've been using Manjaro for over a year now, never had any problem.
- bildung 9y ago
  Pretty sure thats Ubuntu specific. I have machines here that run the "same" Debian installation for 10 years, doing dist-upgrades every few years and switching the disks (or the whole machine) underneath. Its one of the things I love Debian for.
- mikedelfino 9y ago
  Debian Sid would be the equivalent to a rolling distro, as far as updated packages go. I find it pretty stable for desktop use.

akerro 9y ago

Manjaro? The distribution that told users to change their clocks back on their OSs to get updates working? The one that last year couldn't patch Firefox for over 1 month because two package maintainers were on holidays, but Arch patched in one day? They can't even sort out bugs in package updater (recently leaking memory - 2.4GB RAM usage to update 120 packages?!). Last week I moved to openSUSE from Manjaro and it was really good decision, works better, it's faster, ex-Windowsers love it because of YaST2 [1] GUI manager for everything https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/YaST2-2.18.25.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/YaST2-2....

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