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What do you like about your Linux Distro?
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While I know it's not the best distro, I don't care to re-image, I left that life behind with Windows.
Manjaro-
I love the fact that I can have "Stable" and "Unstable" kernels installed simultaneously. It's a nice handy way to recover or narrow down if an issue is related to the kernel. They've done an excellent job with the default Grub settings to allow this as well as side-by-siding with Windows if I want (which made transitioning from Windows to Linux easier).
What makes you say "I know it's not the best distro"?
Let me preface this with the fact that I still love and am not switching off of Manjaro.
Manjaro's been kind of a contentious distro, it uses more bleeding edge than Debian-based, but opts to hold its own release schedule and repo separate from Arch's which Arch fanboys will swear to the moon and back is just as stable. To their credit, Manjaro's released some bad updates in the past.
It's also had some security issues with SSL certs not getting renewed, however to my knowledge, your computer would default to not making unsecured calls like that, and secondly, ended up fixed by the dev soon enough. What really pissed people off was that the devs decided that instead of updating the cert (which would be a quick and easy process), they would demand that everyone changed the date on their computers to a time prior to the cert's expiry. I didn't run into this issue because I don't update the day of, I usually like to give it a couple extra days anyway just in case of situations like this and because, frankly, I get on to use my computer, not watch updates run. I agree their response was in poor taste, but I also kinda figure that's not exactly out of the norm from Linux devs (ie. Gnome and Linus Torvalds).
Lastly, a lot of people talk about how the AUR handles installs based on Arch versioning, so if you install AUR apps, there's a chance of incompatibility in Manjaro since Manjaro is usually behind Arch a little bit. I can't say that I've had this issue at all, but
These are valid complaints folks have had, but none that have really been deal-breakers to me, and not worth the trade-off of a more minimal OOB experience. You have the people that are more used to more stable distros that don't like it being "less stable", and you have the Arch folks that don't like that this isn't as minimal and DIY as Arch. Way I see it, I like to game, I don't like having to fix my computer, and it's struck a nice balance for me. I'm sure Garuda or Nobara would treat me well, but I've already customized my environment to suit me, and tbh, distro's aren't the end-all be-all of Linux, would you do with it is - kinda the whole point of its modularity 😊