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So I've been iso live testing Manjaro KDE Plasma lately and it looks very polished.

On the other hand, there is a negative vibe towards it.

Why the hate?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I have something like 70 AUR packages on Manjaro and doing fine. Yes, they break every once in a while. They break on Arch too.

The thing is, you have to update AUR packages. They're compiled against a certain system state and they will break eventually as the system updates. This will happen with source packages on any distro. It has nothing to do with Manjaro.

[–] the16bitgamer 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying that as an Arch user or a Manjaro user? Have you ever used a different Arch distro? I am just wondering how many of the “other Arch distros are just as broken” people have actually used both. I have used several. In my experience, Manjaro stands alone in terms of the number of problems I have had. I guess I am just unlucky.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm saying that your problems are with AUR not Manjaro. It's entirely possible you stumbled across some AUR packages that at a given time didn't play nice with the official packages. The AUR is huge, it can happen.

But it could have also happened on Arch proper, two weeks earlier, no? The official packages were the same at that time.

I think you were put off Manjaro because it happened while you were on it and if you were to try again it could be different. But once we catch a bias against something it's hard to revisit it.

I'm biased against Ubuntu and love Debian, for example, even though I realize that my issues with Ubuntu had to do with the way .deb repositories work and could happen with Debian, or that done of the things I disliked were just defaults that I could (and did) change.

Ultimately it's as much a question of chemistry or vibing with a distro as with anything, and sometimes it helps to move to another distro even if they're closely related under the hood.