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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!

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[–] IUsedTo 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’d just use Arch Linux tbh, it’s only painful the first time.

Makes sense. There's nothing wrong with vanilla Arch. But may I ask, why should someone use vanilla Arch instead of Arch based like Endevour? Not judging or anything, I'm just not sure if there are any advantages for using vanilla Arch?

[–] nivenkos 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Endeavour can also have similar issues due to packaging differences, but it's much rarer. i.e. only these ones are maintained separately - https://github.com/endeavouros-team/PKGBUILDS

But in general it can make getting support a bit harder, that's why I like using more popular distros.

[–] IUsedTo 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's interesting, I thought Endevour uses the Arch repo

[–] nivenkos 1 points 2 years ago

It does for most things, just those are separate.

It's like how SteamOS gives its repos precedence for their own packages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It does, it just has an extra repo that contains some more packages. IIRC, most of these packages, both on EndeavourOS and ArcoLinux, are packages compiled from the AUR to make it easier to install them (Although ArcoLinux has some of its own packages as well).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Endavour or arch doesn't really make a difference imo, endavour uses the exact arch repos and only has an extra repo with stuff like AUR helpers, pre-configured DEs and a special script for properly setting up nvidia-dkms drivers.

The main benefit of using/installing arch at least once is that you'll learn quite a bit about the workings of the system. I did a manual arch install a few times and these days I usually just install endavour for the sensible defaults and pre installed QoL packages that I'm too lazy to search for and install on arch.