I’ve seen a lot of people who quite dislike Manjaro, and I’m not really sure why. I’m myself am not a Manjaro user, but I did use it for quite a while and enjoyed my experienced, as it felt almost ready out of the box. I’m not here to judge, just wanted to hear the opinion of the community on the matter. Thanks!

  • unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Never used it, but in my mind it will always be the distribution that told its users to roll the date on their machines back because they forgot to renew their website’s SSL certificate.

    Twice.

  • feyo@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    I like the idea and used Manjaro for a few years, but its run by less competent people than Id like (or at least in comparison to other distros), so I stopped and moved to a different distro.

  • SchizoRamblings@vlemmy.netEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    It has no meaningful place or benefits and everyone defending it seems to just be saying “erm, well why not!” and ignoring the problems its caused when compared to distros like endeavouros

    • GrumpyRobot@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      This. It feels like they occupy this weird space between stable and rolling releases that doesn’t really accomplish much. Add on the issues (technical and ethical) over the years, and Manjaro occupies a strange place. Especially as EndeavourOS and even the arch-install script have evolved, it doesn’t quite hold the “arch on easy-mode” vibe it used to.

  • zlatiah@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    Opinion you said?.. https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/

    Thankfully the Manjaro team didn’t seem to have a major mess-up recently, but they did have some very troubled past. Especially now that Arch has a real installer that bundles entire DEs for you, the premise of using an “Arch Linux but easy to use” OS seems less and less

    To each their own though! Nothing wrong with using Manjaro at all if someone really likes it

  • rizoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Manjaro is what got me into Arch so I’ll always have a soft spot for it. I don’t keep up with internet drama so much but I do remember people saying some stuff about the devs being shady/shitty. But I’m not sure how much truth there is to that.

    • IUsedTo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      Manjaro is what got me into Arch

      Is Manjaro even considered an Arch? I though it’s Arch based. Maybe I’m wrong

      • INeedMana@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        It is. It’s so close that you can out of the box use arch package manager to install packages.
        And manjaro package management is technically the same. Just slowed down a little bit.

        You could say that arch is “testing” and manjaro “stable”.
        Although arch is very stable in itself, don’t think of it as of Gentoo Unstable.
        Rather “manjaro will have the newest kernel after a few months, not tomorrow”

  • silent_clash@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I liked it when I used it but that was 5 years ago and there was still dev drama even back then. Contributors said they didn’t feel valued iirc.

  • SweetAIBelle@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    I have heard things previously about Manjaro that make me want to avoid it.

    OTOH, as an Arch user, some of the things I feel could use improvement are better with Manjaro. Pretty much every Arch derivative does something about the major pain points of Arch, though, slapping on a installation gui (though, honestly, just advertising the archinstall CLI script that’s on the install usb stick and fixing it up a bit would help Arch), and giving you an AUR helper by default.

    I recently tried the XFCE version of Endeavor in a vm, and I quite like it, so if I move from Arch, I’m more inclined to go that direction.

  • TechnologyClassroom@partizle.comEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Manjaro had a rough history of not taking security seriously. I hope they have improved, but the impression stuck.

    They have done a few things right by making Arch more approachable when Arch was more of a RTFM type distribution. Now Arch is easier and even ships with an installer, but Manjaro’s installer is easy.

    The end result is still that the user still needs to manage an Arch distro. I would recommend learning the Arch way from Arch instead of taking the easy road.

    If you want an easy distro, rolling releases, and up-to-date packages, I would recommend Debian Did over Manjaro. If you want Arch, use Arch.

  • exohuman@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    I tried it on bare metal some years ago. The main issue I had was that it wasn’t very stable and I kept running into bugs that made the system hard to use. I’m sure they have fixed that by now but that was my experience.

  • obsoulete@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I installed Manjaro sometime during 2018, and I have been using it without any major issues. The only issue I had is when AUR packages fail to update. I find that most of the time the issue will resolve itself eventually anyway. Overall, I feel that Manjaro is a nice and stable distro.

    The only negative I can think of is the community. At the time, I was bluntly told to read the manual whenever I needed help or pointers. But, my negative experience was from a few years ago, so hopefully the community has improved today.

    My daily driver distro today is Mint, which I think is more polished than Manjaro.

  • pinkolik@random-hero.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I use Manjaro ARM on my Orange PI because I couldn’t get Arch ARM to work on it, while Manjaro has support of my devices out of the box. Since I installed a minimal possible version (without any DE), it doesn’t feel bloated or something. It feels like I’m using Arch but with slower updates. Overall, it’s good and I don’t notice much difference from Arch. But anyway, I haven’t tried it for a desktop station.