Today i learned that manjaro has, in parts, german roots and is maintained by a german company. For that i, as a german myself, want to strongly apologize in the name of the german people!!

      • BladeFederation@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        I think the Arch derivatives that are more user friendly than Arch kind of took over the Tumbleweed niche. More compatible, more popular, access to AUR, not tied to a corporation, some bundle proprietary software, etc. I still like Tumbleweed but that’s why I left personally.

  • kiri@ani.social
    32·
    1 month ago

    As not American, wanna appologize for Microsoft Windows in the name of the American people xD

  • observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca
    30·
    1 month ago

    Arch has, in parts, Canadian roots and was originally developed by a Canadian programmer. For that I, as a Canadian myself, want to strongly say “you’re welcome” in the name of the Canadian people!!

    • hamsda@feddit.org
      26·
      1 month ago

      They have had their fair share of (sometimes easily avoidable) fuck-ups.

      Stuff like:

      • letting their websites SSL certificate expire (multiple times)
      • telling users to set the date in their OS back to when the cert was still valid as a workaround
      • accidentally DDoS’ing the AUR (I think multiple times too?)
      • IIRC also some internal struggle about how to use the money donated to them

      Especially the SSL cert hurts. They cannot auto-renew their websites SSL cert (and didn’t seem to learn from their first mistake) and they want to maintain a linux distro?

        • kik2civeswt1@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          What hardware and software do you use for this? I’ve been trying on and off for maybe a year trying to get an HP Reverb G2 working with envision/monado. My most recent struggles were with lining up build dependencies, like boost, cnmatrix, etc., which I chalked up to version incompatiblies between Manjaro/AUR.

    • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      1 month ago

      Their SSL certs keep expiring and they have a weird package release schedule on a ~2wk delay from base Arch, which causes half of the AUR (or any custom pacman repos) to break in unpredictable ways due to out-of-sync packages.

  • whalescenery@lemmy.zip
    2·
    1 month ago

    I think as with most things, Manjaro does have a niche. I like Arch for a whole load of reasons and I’ve previously used it for years (although I’ve now moved to NixOS ).

    But the company I work for has a great policy of letting people use whatever OS they want. I normally go with Manjaro because it’s “Archy” enough to satisfy me but it’s much easier & faster to install fresh - which matters if you get a new work laptop every year and want to get started quickly.

    • dingleberrylover@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 month ago

      There is EndeavourOS if you really want Arch for the lazy. It is basically just arch with an additional repo from the EOS devs with themes and their own tools. You get preconfigured DE and WM installations. Would always prefer it over Manjaro.

    • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      1 month ago

      It’s niche is entirely served by EndeavorOS tho. And EndeavourOS knows how to set up a cron job to keep their ssl certificates up to date💀

    • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 month ago

      Arch now has archinstall. So the setup is pretty fast. And if you sync your dotfiles, and have a list of packages to install, you can setup in an hour or so

      From someone who installed manjaro because I thought it’d be easier arch, but did not last more than a month

    • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      You should really use endeavoros for this, manjaros team is wildly incompetent and does way too much (which is a problem since they can’t get the basics right)