This is why I’m going to argue for pure Arch or Artix. Ultimately, what a lot of these distros bring to the table is artwork. But they bite off a lot more than artwork when doing so. And in time they can start to suck at that administration.
It’s not very hard to set up your system with a vanilla DE and adjust it into something good. You don’t need to get fancy. And to the extent someone else’s art work can be good and accelerate getting to a nice system, there are other ways to distribute that.
You should want your distro to be 95% administration and 5% art because in the long run that’s whats going to keep your system stable and avoid future headaches. But some artists are overly ambitious and envision creating an entire version of an operating system, including the parts they aren’t passionate about. And some people buy in on this premise and install these projects. …instead of just releasing dot files.
For it to go well requires that both the leadership and the contributors are passionate about all of the parts and passionate about them forever. Not very likely. If you want a distro that is administered well, get a distro where administration is all they do, and then get your artwork as a separate selection.
Now you can get your art from artists who put 95% of their effort into art. And your package stability by people who put 95% of their effort into package stability.
Everyone has romantic feelings toward a system that is integrated. But what they should realize is that integrated and modular are opposites. And modular is what they should want, with effective roll separation.
If they fork Majaro that is good. If when they fork it they scope down to just distribute a dot file set, and maybe create their own easy installer for Arch that isn’t a seperate whole distro, that is better.
its a garbage distro
They need to cast out the person who can’t renew the ssl certificate.
Who renews certificates these days? You automate that now, especially with 47 day certs coming.
My renewals have been running in a crontab for five years without any hiccups. The fact they can’t do that is simply lazy.
That’s the level of incompetency that needs to be booted
Riot Games recently screwed it and downed LoL for a while
Aragorn writes that Philip Müller (the project lead) has been running Manjaro as his own personal venture rather than a community effort, keeping a tight hold on access to both the codebase and the infrastructure.
These weasels never care about the actual thing that is being built, its just a way to make money for them.
Hope they kick that Philip guy out and get back to making this a passion project.
The core members with passion for the actual thing should restart under a new name.
Just quit and move to CatchyOS
I don’t game on my laptop, so the benefits of CachyOS over my EndeavourOS are moot.
I had to check boxes for gaming packages specifically to get installed. It’s an extremely fast Arch fork first and foremost, with gaming features second.
I thought it’d be gaming first too but it was clear during install that’s more of an “oh also”.
yeah, but me switching from EndeavourOS to CachyOS, what tangible benefits am I realistically going to gain? if all I do is use Firefox and play music/movies? ya know?
Honestly the damage is done. Manjaro has been an instant no from me dog for a long time. The name carries a negative connotation. Trust has eroded.
What happened?
The trust. It eroded.
I mean, I think they were looking for a little more detail that that.
