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There are multiple types of people "hating" Manjaro to various degrees.
There are the "It GoEs AgAinsT ThE ArCh PhiLoSopHy" guys - those you should ignore without a second thought. Because duh, that's why it's its own distro and not Arch. They probably also hate Endeavor, Garuda and all the other great Arch based distros and have no idea what they are talking about.
There are the ones who, like myself, tried Manjaro briefly, realized there was something broken right out of the box, thought "lol stable my ass" and then invested way too much time in Arch on another distro. You should ignore us as well.
There are the ones who at least claim to have proberly used Manjaro for a while and say there is no noticeable benefit, if not disadvantages. They might have a point (shout out the the guy or gal who mentioned their frequent certificate fails lmao).
And finally there are those who have decided Manjaro just isn't for them and moved on. They can probably give an actually balanced and fair review of Manjaro.
But then again, there are also people maintaining and liking the project, so there seems to be at the very least some perceived value to it. Maybe it's worth it, maybe it isn't. Frankly, I don't care whether people this distro. And why should I?
I also don't get why a couple dozen DEs exist, when I hate everything but Plasma and Cinnamon, maybe GNOME. But if people want to use them and go as far as to maintain them, there is probably a reason and I have better things to do than stop them.
Haha when I saw the cert issues it eroded any confidence I had; I wouldn't say I know a lot, but I think I can keep a certbot up (unless it was running on Manjaro)
@UnfortunateShort @jackofalltrades I'm a noob Linux user and I have used Manjaro in the past for about 3 months, i liked it very much. I think people should try it out.
But what did you like about Manjaro compared to other distributions? If I introduce someone who's never used the internet before to Internet Explorer 6, they might claim to like it very much as well.
I like the AUR and rolling-release model.
It's pretty much a pre-configured arch that's easier to maintain.
@BaconIsAVeg I agree with your statement. I liked Manjaro because it felt a little bit more faster on my potato PC and it that it looked nice (i know you can customize every distro to your liking, but I'm the kind of person that just uses the defaults). Before i used Fedora, Ubuntu 18.04 and Linux mint.
For a few years now i am using openSUSE for my daily tasks and windows for some light gaming (i still have the same potato PC, but upgraded with SSD)