pyromaniac_donkeyshhhh dont tell them :)
SpaceCadetThe irony is that “it just works” is often more true for Arch than for other distros because it has up-to-date drivers for everything.
Try to get a Radeon 7900XT working on Ubuntu 22.04 for example. It’s possible, but you’ll be jumping through much more hoops than on Arch.
whileloopSince Manjaro is forked from Arch, it would benefit from Arch’s updated drivers, right?
Manjaro is amazing if you don’t want to bullshit through the hassle of what the Arch installer has become. I understand the point of it is to get you more familiar with the linux system in general, but they had an installer and they ripped it out. Manjaro is basically just pre-configured Arch, so yeah. Despite all the purists “Manjaro isn’t arch!!”…in practice, it basically is.
NeilManjaro holds back Arch packages for futher testing, but they don’t hold back AUR packages (which would be a nightmare to be fair). I haven’t used Arch or Manjaro in several years, but I do remember Manjaro being a lot less stable after installing/using a lot of AUR packages due to dependency issues.
Not saying Manjaro is bad, but it’s a downside that separates it from Arch and shows it’s more than just a pre-configured Arch.
I usually just move the sources so that they point to arch, so I didn’t even think about this.
somedaysoonYeah, this, and I’m glad to see a level-headed response and understand why Manjaro can sometimes be problematic. I would often see a site that listed reasons not to use Manjaro parroted on reddit and it was a fucking joke… like every point was either reaching or ridiculous.
But what you said is very reasonable. It is also why AUR is disabled by default and it is discouraged to use AUR in Manjaro unless you know exactly what you are doing. Because if you enable AUR in Manjaro there is a good chance that you will run into a dependency issue, and there is another chance that dependency issues breaks your system.
you can say Manjaro is bad, completely fucked my system like twice then switched to endeavor, which is the spiritual successor to AntergOs endeavouros.com
Arch actually has an installer again and it’s fantastic wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall