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Do yourself a favour and don't use manjaro or Ubuntu. Use what they are based on: Arch and Debian, respectively. They're the base for these other distros for a

Do yourself a favour and don't use manjaro or Ubuntu. Use what they are based on: Arch and Debian, respectively. They're the base for these other distros for a reason. They are the best and they fully respect you.

thefascistleft 3y ago
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shrimp_emoji 3y ago
I think Manjaro is the best distro for my money. It's just Arch with some extra care and a GUI installer and kernel switcher (which is super nice). I moved to Arch but only out of curiosity ~~and masochism~~. It taught me a lot more about Linux, allowing me to optimize the system to my liking a bit more (like in the partition layout). :p (It's not difficult to switch kernels on Arch, btw; it's only a tiny bit harder in that you have to memorize/document the workflow instead of being able to use a GUI.) Both Arch and Manjaro, however, have been way better than Ubuntu, paradoxically. Ubuntu's supposed to be the user friendly distro, but it's more user friendly to use the AUR than hunt for expired PPA links on StackOverflow or suffer frequent DE crashes cuz the DE is old or have to reinstall the system to upgrade to the next version. Meanwhile, the trade-off with rolling, you think, is instability, but it's really MORE stability and faster hardware support! Wild. Bonus meme: there was a bad kernel a while back. 5.13 or something. It was freezing people's machines at random, and I was one of those people. I was using both Manjaro and Ubuntu at the time. On Manjaro, I was able to quickly work around it by bringing up the kernel switcher, clicking on the previous kernel, and rebooting. On Ubuntu, I thought I was safe since I was using an LTS version that predated the bad kernel. Alright, see, now it makes sense -- at least you have a haven or stability in an LTS point release, where you never hit bad kernels like this like you might on rolling. :) ...But then a system update bumped the LTS kernel version to the bad one! :| With no way to switch like on Manjaro. Frozen Ubuntu. Like, what's even the point?

thefascistleft 3y ago

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shrimp_emoji 3y ago

I think Manjaro is the best distro for my money. It's just Arch with some extra care and a GUI installer and kernel switcher (which is super nice). I moved to Arch but only out of curiosity ~~and masochism~~. It taught me a lot more about Linux, allowing me to optimize the system to my liking a bit more (like in the partition layout). :p (It's not difficult to switch kernels on Arch, btw; it's only a tiny bit harder in that you have to memorize/document the workflow instead of being able to use a GUI.) Both Arch and Manjaro, however, have been way better than Ubuntu, paradoxically. Ubuntu's supposed to be the user friendly distro, but it's more user friendly to use the AUR than hunt for expired PPA links on StackOverflow or suffer frequent DE crashes cuz the DE is old or have to reinstall the system to upgrade to the next version. Meanwhile, the trade-off with rolling, you think, is instability, but it's really MORE stability and faster hardware support! Wild. Bonus meme: there was a bad kernel a while back. 5.13 or something. It was freezing people's machines at random, and I was one of those people. I was using both Manjaro and Ubuntu at the time. On Manjaro, I was able to quickly work around it by bringing up the kernel switcher, clicking on the previous kernel, and rebooting. On Ubuntu, I thought I was safe since I was using an LTS version that predated the bad kernel. Alright, see, now it makes sense -- at least you have a haven or stability in an LTS point release, where you never hit bad kernels like this like you might on rolling. :) ...But then a system update bumped the LTS kernel version to the bad one! :| With no way to switch like on Manjaro. Frozen Ubuntu. Like, what's even the point?