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I have not made any case for Manjaro. I simply said it works well enough for me.
I also said that I know the story and have used many different OSes and Linux distros, so I know full well their underlying philosophies.
You seem to want to get me to defend Manjaro to have someone to argue with. Sorry, I don't have enough investment in Manjaro to argue with you. I'm just too lazy to distro hop.
that's not an argument to what I said in fact it's basically exactly what I said, manjaro users only use manjaro because it's what they're already using, not because it's better designed for any particular usecase.
"There's literally no reason to use this distro that isn't just that you're already used to it." Was exactly what I said.