Sometimes people tell me I should have gone with either Linux Mint or EndeavourOS, and otherwise don’t really tell me why it’s bad, just that it’s bad. So far I only could find one thing, which is that their repo isn’t 100% rolling for stability, and sometimes it does not guarantee stability.
They’re devs constantly make mistakes that harm the ecosystem, they suggest poor practices, and are generally incompetent.
They ddosed the aur twice the second time the exact same way as the first. No solution was put into place to fix the root cause and it caused a major issue. They didn’t learn.
The lead arm Dev pushed an update to Asahi (trusted, due to their position) that broke the system for half of the users (those using xorg) showing the dev didn’t test it on xorg at all. The problem? They upped a version for a dependency which had nothing to do with their code. The issue was documented. This dev, their lead arm dev, didn’t check the docs before upoing the version. Didn’t test at all either. This is a lead dev. That’s their standard
Before asahi was released they claimed manjaro worked on the m1 macbooks with a marketing page and all shipping a random dev version of the Asahi kernal known to not even boot. This was lucky as if it could, the build had a chance to break the computer. What did they do this? Who knows.
They forgot to update their SSL certs 5 times telling people to change their system clocks the first time. You can automate SSL cert renewal by the way. It’s easy and takes at max twenty minutes if it’s not cooperating and you’ll never have to worry again. This shows, again, they’re not competant and don’t learn from their mistakes.
They suggested, and strongly defended, using sudo pacman -Syyu which forces a database refresh for every install. This is not likely ever needed unless something fucks up bad and puts unnecessary stress on the repos.
A lot more too but I’m sleepy. I rarely say a distro is a bad choice but manjaro is the strongest exception for me. You can’t trust their devs. Of course the entire AUR and update issue but that’s hit or miss on whether it effects you
If you want a semi rolling release like manjaro I’d suggest OpenSuse tumbleweed. Same release idea but with consistantly competant devs.
Manjaro is a wet fart. I don’t want them sitting in my lap man
Just use vanilla Arch😭
I like EndeavourOS because it’s pretty much vanilla Arch, just with a nice installer. (Although we do now have the archinstall script.) After installation, there’s pretty much no difference. Also, I like the logo. I only installed Arch once for the bragging rights lol.
I ran vanilla Arch on 3 machines for over 15 years, but these days I just use Endeavor. Easy install, sane defaults, and then hands you a fully working and customizable arch. Absolutely love the project.
I can’t recommend EndeavourOS to my friends because there’s no app store. Manjaro Plasma comes with Discover.
I mean, you can just install Discover on EndeavourOS if you want.
Pure poetry of yours, Wordsworth’s can go take a dump.
Wait I’m not supposed to run that?
It won’t harm your system but it puts an undue burden on the repos. Just sudo pacman -Syu works perfectly
The double y forces a full database refresh which is rarely needed. One example of when it might be useful might be if you lost power during a dB upgrade.