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For the love of all that’s saint, can we please stop recommending Manjaro to people, especially newbies?
It’s not really a preference thing, Manjaro team did plenty of questionable stuff with it, as in DDoSing AUR, mind you, twice, or letting their server certificates expire, also more than once.
It also routinely shows more stability issues that led to the infamous “I swear to god, if it’s Manjaro again…” in AUR discussions. Apart from AUR problems, they also shipped alpha quality things to their users, like this and this.
I’ve used Manjaro myself for around a month. If you are treating it as a regular Arch installation, you will break it.
If you want something up to date, but more stable than Arch, just use Fedora. If you insist on it being Arch-based, use something like CachyOS. Or you can read the wiki and install Arch itself. Arch is a DIY distro, after all.
I lasted 3 months before it broke itself beyond my ability to repair (my entire DE got uninstalled during an update), switched to EndeavourOS, and have had zero issues that weren’t me doing something dumb.
I switched from Pop! to EndeavourOS around the start of the year and love it, seems like the perfect avenue into Arch. Still have a fondness for Pop which was my first Linux distro and I had no real issues, just wanted a change
i also used manjaro, and whilst they had a pretty looking theme on grub, it broke on me three times, where i managed to repair it the first two and then just installed fedora the third time. never looked back. when i installed manjaro i ran an update after boot and immediately lost a bunch of manjaro theming in my DE… wth?
I fucking loved Manjaro as a newbie but I completely agree.
I’ve never had a Manjaro install not break in the 4 times I’ve given it serious tries, all from updates. I could’ve avoided a few them by checking the forums first, but one was due to not updating for a couple months, which seem to set it up for failure when I did update.
I can’t imagine cursing a newbie with it.
In comparison, Linux Mint has virtually never given me trouble, even if left not updated for months.
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There’s a difference between getting hacked via an exploit, and letting your certificates expire out of sheer carelessness.
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Step one: ignore all video guides because I’d rather read about tech at the pace that I read, not at the pace that someone presents it.
Meh, everyone has different preferences, I’m firmly on the side of the written word myself, but I don’t mind the occasional video presentation of something lol
I don’t mind a video for a review. But for instructions, I want to be able to easily skim and skip over things that I already know or that don’t apply to me.
Agreed. I just do not have the attention span for people who either do not talk, do not talk well, or especially those who do not talk faster than those IVR “press … One …for …more …options” things.
(present presenter is doing well, FWIW, so don’t take this like that)
If I must wait for it to be read, be clear, be proper, be as fast as you can be while still being clear; you need to be so good that we forget we can’t refer back to something else you said unless we can find it somewhere on the recording, which is a lot of rage to avoid. If we can understand an auctioneer, we can understand someone slower.
Otherwise, let me set the pace by using printed words. It’s just better for everyone.
you need to be so good that we forget we can’t refer back to something else you said unless we can find it somewhere on the recording
This. If I could ctl-f / cmd-f the video, it’d be less objectionable.
Why not just… not watch?
Why tell everyone that you don’t like videos or what this person on YouTube is doing with their time?
To inform people that their reach decreases when they don’t provide their ideas in text. I mean, they already have the script. All they need to do is upload it somewhere.
The only way to choose a long term distro is to try several.
I just put Ubuntu on a laptop 12 years ago and never looked back.
Great vid! I would’ve greatly appreciated watching this if I were new to Linux. It sounds like my Linux journey has been similar to the person in the video’s. I’m satisfied with Arch but am currently dipping my toes in Gentoo and NixOS
As a hopeless Gentoo user myself, I must warn you: it’s very addictive and it will become your one and only hobby, whether you like it or not.
OST gang ❤️
Apologies for my ignorance, but what’s OST?
Original SoundTrack, such as the music that’s used in movies and video games.
It’s not the definition you’re looking for in this context, but it is a definition for OST.
Sorry, couldn’t resist. I’ll see myself out now.
I don’t get it. An OS is to help you do stuff and not get in your way. Why do people argue over which is the best one to use and why is it Debian? No one cares what you use, just shut up and be productive.
