Arch is fun to experiment with but 99% of the time I just want a quick and simple OS and don’t want to spend hours just installing on one VM everytime I create a new one.
I run both. 😛
I hopped on Manjaro about a year and a half, maybe two years ago now. After putting up with Ubuntu & Canonical’s antics for about 15 years, and consequently Linux Mint’s, I simply “outgrew” those (and Debian).
Don’t misunderstand: I really love and ire what the Mint team has accomplished, and it’s a great OS in its own right, but their OS is based on Ubuntu, and IMO it’s like being shackled to a corpse. The Ubuntu packages are simply too damn old for me, as is the kernel, and PPAs are a joke; don’t get me started on their asinine “Snaps”. I realized I didn’t need anyone to hold my hand anymore, and it was time to start using a Linux distribution that was much nearer the bleeding edge.
I couldn’t believe how great Manjaro was, when I started using it, and understanding what was really going on under the hood. The AUR, the up-to-date packages, the latest kernels, a great community, the visual themes, being able to use the Arch Wiki…! I was in love again.
Then the Manjaro team started doing ‘silly’ things, IMO. Things which I don’t believe normal s would know or care about.
For example, their obvious hatred of Nvidia. There has been more than one occasion where the devs have basically told s, “don’t use a computer with Nvidia hardware,” as a solution! It’s come up whenever there’s been friction between the latest Arch kernel and Nvidia’s proprietary driver — the latter is ittedly a nasty piece of shit, from a developer’s POV, but still infinitely better than the open-source Nouveau driver, from a ’s perspective. Nvidia has been openly hostile toward the FOSS and Linux communities, and I completely sympathize with developers from both of them. But pushing the onus on your s like that is over the line. Manjaro developers don’t seem to realize that not all s have a choice in the hardware they run.
Eventually, I found myself “getting good” with Linux itself, and, using the Arch Wiki, I installed Arch to a VirtualBox virtual machine, then real hardware. Yes, it is a bit more work to initially set up than Manjaro, but as long as you keep package lists and configuration files as I do, and you want or need that extra level of control, you can end up with a leaner, faster OS. On machines that aren’t my daily-driver desktop, that’s what I need. For my desktop and a spare laptop, they’re going to stay on Manjaro a little longer, and then I may give Endeavor OS a try.
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Manjaro is better. Arch is fun to experiment with but 99% of the time I just want a quick and simple OS and don’t want to spend hours just installing on one VM everytime I create a new one.
A computer is like a car: it’s fun to tinker under the hood and maybe building my product could be superior, but I don’t want to waste time on it when I need to go to work.
Manjaro is better. Arch is fun to experiment with but 99% of the time I just want a quick and simple OS and don’t want to spend hours just installing on one VM everytime I create a new one.
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