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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (11 children)

Ooookay, this will get controversial.

Proud Manjaro/Debian user!

  • Ubuntu and derivatives suck because of Canonical and their practices
  • Fedora sucks because of Red Hat
  • OpenSUSE sucks because RPM (why?!) and still SUSE (but they're the best of the three)
  • Rest is exotic and obscure

So we end up with Arch and Debian. Debian 12 is good enough as is, and runs on a work laptop where I don't care about anything but stability. Arch is respectable and great, but requires excessive maintenance to work properly. Among its derivatives, Endeavour is just a nicer archinstall (so, why?), Garuda is cool but unstable and too gamer'y, Manjaro is a bit problematic at times but generally the safest bet when it comes to Arch. So, when it comes to my main PC doubling as a gaming rig, this is a no-brainer.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What did you not like about EndeavourOS?

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The fact that it adds too little to Arch to be seen as a separate entity. And I don't want to run mainline Arch. It requires too much maintenance to work with it properly, and every update is a bit of a gamble on what's gonna break next - unless you spend solid time reading notes to every update.

[–] Moshpirit@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have been using both distros in the last 5 years and Manjaro was way more problematic to me than Arch, TBH. The Linux Experiment created a video with some of the big issues of Manjaro BTW. That said, this is no war, everyone can enjoy their favourite distro. Whatever works best for each of us.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, I am aware of some of those controversies, and they sure are unfortunate!

However, it's really, really hard to find a well-supported distro free of controversies. Still doesn't excuse Manjaro on that front.

I personally did not test Arch for such a long time, but what I had I certainly didn't like. Also, full barebones approach is not for me, and more of an enthusiast kind of thing. So, to each their own indeed!

[–] Konstant@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I didn't like that it doesn't have a graphical software manager like Manjaro

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