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What is your unbiased opinion on Manjaro? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am a Linux noobie and have only used Mint for around six months now. While I have definitely learned a lot, I don't have the time to always be doing crazy power user stuff and just want something that works out of the box. While I love Mint, I want to try out other decently easy to use distros as well, specifically not based on Ubuntu, so no Pop OS. Is Manjaro a possibly good distro for me to check out?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had more trouble in a few month of Manjaro on a secondary system than I had with Arch in over 15 years. The amount of conflicts I had to resolve during package updates was crazy. If I now want to set up a new system, I use EndeavorOS as a base. Quick install procedure but I end up with something very close to Arch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Seconding EndeavourOS as an alternative, I used to use Manjaro and eventually the dependency conflicts (because every non-AUR package is about 2-weeks out-of-date) drove me insane enough to switch to Endeavour. I haven't had a problem with the exception of a broken grub update last year, which AFAIK wasn't just an EndeavourOS problem and they've since taken action to prevent something like that from occurring again.