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    [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I highly recommend avoiding manjaro like the plague, their team is incredibly incompetent (see: https://manjarno.pages.dev/ ), I say this as someone who has given people manjaro for years and regretted it, I was also their it person, manjaro regularly broke every few months and gave people a very bad taste of linux

    for example, why are kernels given version numbers in packages? This caused 3 separate peoples computers to break multiple times. Everything good about manjaro comes from arch, everything bad about manjaro comes from the manjaro team.

    Y’know how it’s not rolling release because they delay packages by 2 weeks? They actually do no testing in this time. How do I know this? They pushed an update that caused steam to uninstall your desktop environment. Famously covered by linus tech tips… this is something that should have easily been caught, and yet the two week window did absolutely nothing.

    the truth is for manjaro there is no real usecase, there’s no set of desires that align with manjaro being the best choice for you. I am not asking you to switch away from manjaro, but I do not think we should ever recommend it to anyone, and on your next machine, I recommend trying the arch installer.

    But if what you’re looking for is an easy pre-setup arch, use endeavoros

    If you want something simple and up to date, use fedora kinoite

    If you’re a power user and want to configure every little thing about their system, use arch or nixos

    If you don’t care at all about updates and want the most rock solid system possible, debian.

    [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    If openSUSE Slowroll wasn't experimental I'd recommend it in place of Manjaro. It's a rolling release with monthly releases.

    [–] dojan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    I really like Tumbleweed. Sure it updates a lot, but it doesn’t force updates so you can take it at your own pace.

    [–] zaemz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    SUSE's Open Build Service absolutely rules, too. I use Fedora personally, but would switch to Tumbleweed any day. I've gone back and forth, eventually settling on Fedora only because of familiarity with Red Hat.

    There are things I miss, big one being Zypper. It's slow as balls but it's usability and ability to dig through packages is unmatched, in my opinion.

    [–] Crismus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    I hear you. I was looking more for Arch with less of a hassle. Something similar to my Steamdeck. I guess I should just wipe this weekend for something else. I really want something for playing my steam and GOG games that works with my Nvidia 3080.

    Luckily for me I keep every game installed on different Steam Libraries so wiping my install drive to put something else in isn't difficult.

    [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    What about arch is it that you want?

    I do a ton of distro research because I try to convert people to linux a lot so I might be able to help you with that.

    https://bazzite.gg/ this is probably what you want, make sure to install the nvidia version.