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[-] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

None of the problems Linus had in that video where distro problems. Most of the problems he had were due to the DE chosen and not understanding it. And that he kept trying to do things in dumb as fuck ways and excused that behavior by framing it, "tHaTs wHaT aVeRaGe uSeR dO." And that was just an excuse for being lazy because why was that the set expectation for the video? It wasn't, he was just being lazy and making a veiled attempt at hiding his incompetency.

He would have been much better off with the default Manjaro DE XFCE or instead Cinnamon or MATE instead of KDE which is made for hardcore tinkerers and doesn't have very great defaults in my opinion. But feel free to point me to the issues you think where distro issues because I've already had these debates on reddit when the video aired and no one could point to a distro specific issue.

Also, Manjaro is a great distro, I've also used it for years on various desktops and laptops. One brand new gaming laptop that no other distro the trackpad would work on and Manjaro worked right out of the box. Not Ubuntu, not Fedora, not PopOS.

Also that website that gets parroted on reddit all the time on why Manjaro is bad and no one should use it is full of misinformation and misunderstanding of the technical issues in much the same way LTT content is always poorly researched and gets things wrong. Almost every single point on that website is invalid. We can get into the technical details, I'm willing to do it.

this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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