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I've been curious about that. Any time I ask about it, a lot of Arch folks come out to explain why Manjaro is terrible and makes all kinds of bad choices simila
by noirbot 4y ago
I've been curious about that. Any time I ask about it, a lot of Arch folks come out to explain why Manjaro is terrible and makes all kinds of bad choices similar to the ones TFA is about. How much of that is real vs. overblown purism about Arch?
- RealStickman_ 4y agoIf you want Arch with a simple installer, use EndeavourOS. Manjaro has a history of DDoSing the AUR, letting various website certs expire multiple times and holding back any package updates for two weeks (even security updates), but also shipping WIP github patches without notifying users properly. https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/ https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/ https://dont-ship.it/ https://dont-ship.it/
- noirbot 4y agoYea, that's an interesting lead. I only just learned about Endeavor today but may give it a try. In theory, I really like the idea of the pure "build it yourself" of Arch, but when the docs aren't good enough to get a professional developer through doing it correctly in under 10 hours, I'm not sure what to do. Kernel/Driver stuff isn't my forte, but if your target user has to be, that's rough. That mostly aligns to what I'd hear about Manjaro before. I'd successfully installed it before, but when part of the point of Arch is how good the AUR/Pacman is, hearing that it seems to mess up both of those is a big turnoff.