Today i learned that manjaro has, in parts, german roots and is maintained by a german company. For that i, as a german myself, want to strongly apologize in the name of the german people!!
Today i learned that manjaro has, in parts, german roots and is maintained by a german company. For that i, as a german myself, want to strongly apologize in the name of the german people!!
I think as with most things, Manjaro does have a niche. I like Arch for a whole load of reasons and I’ve previously used it for years (although I’ve now moved to NixOS ).
But the company I work for has a great policy of letting people use whatever OS they want. I normally go with Manjaro because it’s “Archy” enough to satisfy me but it’s much easier & faster to install fresh - which matters if you get a new work laptop every year and want to get started quickly.
There is EndeavourOS if you really want Arch for the lazy. It is basically just arch with an additional repo from the EOS devs with themes and their own tools. You get preconfigured DE and WM installations. Would always prefer it over Manjaro.
It’s niche is entirely served by EndeavorOS tho. And EndeavourOS knows how to set up a cron job to keep their ssl certificates up to date💀
Cheers for the rec! I’ll take a look at it next time I go to upgrade.
I like to call it “Arch for the lazy”.
It takes all sorts.
It is precisely Arch for the lazy! In some circumstances that’s a negative, others a benefit.
You should really use endeavoros for this, manjaros team is wildly incompetent and does way too much (which is a problem since they can’t get the basics right)
Arch now has archinstall. So the setup is pretty fast. And if you sync your dotfiles, and have a list of packages to install, you can setup in an hour or so
From someone who installed manjaro because I thought it’d be easier arch, but did not last more than a month