• christophski@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I’m considering leaving Ubuntu. I’m currently looking at Manjaro because I don’t think I have enough time to invest in learning arch. Any tips?

    • nkofferman@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been pleasantly impressed with Manjaro after using it for a month now, coming from Kubuntu. I’ve been running some flavor of Ubuntu for about a year after ditching Windows.

      There’s plenty of available packages (between repos, flatpak, snap, and AUR), good user support via the Arch wiki and googling, and it’s just more stable for me.

      I’d heard that Manjaro is Arch for cowards, and I’m very comfortable with that choice.

      • christophski@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        Yeah that sounds good to me - this is my work computer and I can’t afford it to break or to spend even half an hour of the day fixing something

    • prim3r@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      One of my favorite features of arch is the aur, and because manjaro lags behind arch releases, you can run into trouble. If you want arch without the install difficulties, I would try something like endeaver os or garuda. You’ll end up with actual arch in the end and you wont end up with some of outdated certs or whanever manjaro ucks up nowadays.

      • crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        While you’re absolutely correct, in my personal experience Manjaro has been perfectly stable even with somewhat heavy use of the AUR.

    • notsharp@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Manjaro had a lot of dark history in past. Just use fedora workstation and chill.