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People love to bag on Manjaro, but I know a fair number of people who use it as their primary OS. Hell, I used it as mine for almost a year and a half; I only moved to Arch because I was super bored one weekend.
I'm not saying don't use it, I've used it in the past and they get some stuff right. The included programs are generally good choices, their customisations on the DEs differentiate Manjaro from others, the GUI app that lets you trivially install different kernels with the click of a button is great. Unfortunately it ended up causing breakages a couple of times, so I moved on.
I'm saying if I were to pick a word to describe it certainly wouldn't be "reliable", due to their whole holding back Arch packages but not AUR ones, leading to dependency conflicts.
I honestly don't know why they don't hold back AUR ones as well (or don't hold back a week, a-la EndeavourOS). That'd solve IMO the biggest issue with the distro
Plus the whole repeatedly not updating expired security certificates and telling people to just roll back their clocks to "fix" it.
If it happened only once, I'd chalk it up as an embarrassing albeit understandable mistake. But it's happened, what, 3 times now? It's an issue in itself, but it also brings into question what other stuff they're messing up behind the scenes due to poor processes.
That's fair.
Aur is explicitly stated to be unsupported on Manjaro. I don't think you can hate on them for this
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository
They should probably have big warnings when you actually try to go install something, then, rather than as a note in their wiki that very very few people will read.
"People I know" has never been a suitable equivalent to actual data, Mr Trump.
Lol I agree
The only data in this exchange is the anecdotal data I provided, get your head out of your ass.