I run both. 😛

I hopped on Manjaro about a year and a half, maybe two years ago now. After putting up with Ubuntu & Canonical’s antics for about 15 years, and consequently Linux Mint’s, I simply “outgrew” those (and Debian).

I couldn’t believe how great Manjaro was, when I started using it, and understanding what was really going on under the hood. The AUR, the up-to-date packages, the latest kernels, a great community, the visual themes, being able to use the Arch Wiki…! I was in love again.

Then the Manjaro team started doing ‘silly’ things, IMO. Things which I don’t believe normal users would know or care about.

For example, their obvious hatred of Nvidia. There has been more than one occasion where the devs have basically told users, “don’t use a computer with Nvidia hardware,” as a solution! It’s come up whenever there’s been friction between the latest Arch kernel and Nvidia’s proprietary driver — the latter is admittedly a nasty piece of shit, from a developer’s POV, but still infinitely better than the open-source Nouveau driver, from a user’s perspective. Nvidia has been openly hostile toward the FOSS and Linux communities, and I completely sympathize with developers from both of them. But pushing the onus on your users like that is over the line. Manjaro developers don’t seem to realize that not all users have a choice in the hardware they run.

Eventually, I found myself “getting good” with Linux itself, and, using the Arch Wiki, I installed Arch to a VirtualBox virtual machine, then real hardware. Yes, it is a bit more work to initially set up than Manjaro, but as long as you keep package lists and configuration files as I do, and you want or need that extra level of control, you can end up with a leaner, faster OS. On machines that aren’t my daily-driver desktop, that’s what I need. For my desktop and a spare laptop, they’re going to stay on Manjaro a little longer, and then I may give Endeavor OS a try.

@BigBuggyBastage
Manjaro is better. Arch is fun to experiment with but 99% of the time I just want a quick and simple OS and don’t want to spend hours just installing on one VM everytime I create a new one.

A computer is like a car: it’s fun to tinker under the hood and maybe building my product could be superior, but I don’t want to waste time on it when I need to go to work.

Fake. Everyone knows all Arch Linux users wear programming socks, and I don’t see-

Oh. My bad. Carry on

Weird flex, but okay.

“Don’t lie, Twiggy, you use Manjaro.”

Great image, based waifu!

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