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Manjaro OS (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm on OpenSuse and it's great. If you're tempted by Arch, go straight up Arch. Manjaro doesn't give any pluses here, only negatives.

[–] interceder270 -4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Don't listen to people like this.

Installing arch is a pain in the ass and the vast majority of people should not go through with it. If you like to tinker, go with arch. If you want a machine that just works out of the box, go with Manjaro.

If you don't believe me, see for yourself. Don't just believe people on the internet at face-value. Most of them are just regurgitating things they don't understand in order to fit in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Installing arch is a pain

While Manjaro is perfectly fine, this is no longer true. With the archinstall script you can have even Arch up and running in minutes. It's still not graphical or straightforward as a Manjaro installation, but it's certainly not painful. EndeavourOS may be the closest to Arch with simple installation.

[–] interceder270 -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I keep hearing this but haven't tried it myself.

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

No idea why you are getting downvoted.

A great middle-ground is EndeavourOS. It has a great installer. It makes pretty decent choices. You have a pretty much 100% pure Arch system after install. There are only a couple dozen EndeavourOS packages and most of them are utilities. You can remove all the EndeavourOS stuff in a couple of minutes if you really want to and comment out the repos. Not sure why you would. Just pointing out how vanilla it is.

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

Believe internet strangers? I had it on my laptop and Pinephone. After breaking twice on both, I went for Kubuntu then OpenSuse for desktop and PostmarketOS on the Pinephone.

You may be cheerleading for Manjaro but don't discount experience of people that went there, suffered and want others to not suffer. If you really need easy to use Arch, EndeavourOS is far superior.