Manjaro sucks anyway. C'mon, broken certificates 5 fucking times?
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2023
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I liked Manjaro, but when stuff broke it broke in weird fuckin' ways. My last attempt with it ended when I tried to do some gamedev in Godot and Manjaro started registering my laptop's mousepad input as a joystick 😭
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People actually use Arch, and it's that popular? TIL.
It could be mostly steamdeck users, but for me arch is the only distro that works well. You know what you install which makes troubleshooting easy, and it's documented very well.
It's only that high because SteamOS is built on it.
I don't mind but for a desktop I definitely prefer Nobara, I've had no issues installing it getting games running on multiple devices with it.
Arch linux is there because of the steam deck
Nope, according to the OP the reports are based on Desktop usage on ProtonDB.
I've personally switched over to Arch because steamos is arch based. I know it will probably be just as smooth for other distros but I've wanted to switch to arch before the steam deck anyways. I'm happy with everybody just embracing linux and the distros they feel comfortable in.
Oh ok thanks for clarifying
Such wide swings, especially for Flatpak, make it clear the sampling is low and data is inaccurate and spotty. I wouldn’t base much on this.
Well at least Nobara is on the chart.
I wouldn't say goodbye manjaro there are still plenty of users using it. But I'm happy that my distro of choice so far (endeavourOS) is also on the chart I feel like it's a solid choice :)
I installed EndeavousOS on Feb 18, 2023, and it has given me the best gaming experience with the fewest of issues. Previously, I've tried Manjaro, PopOS and Tumbleweed and was met with issues early on that made running the latest AMD hardware troublesome in each, but I experienced none of that with EndeavourOS.
Pleasantly surprised that Arch tops the chart. Then again, and I might be wrong about this, but to me a clear bias in the ProtonDB data is that those who submit reports to ProtonDB are usually users who are likely used to submitting bug reports and stuff, so obviously not your average "freshly migrated from Windows" gamer.
I think it's also an issue of selection between the bases.
Yes, arch is on top, but Ubuntu, mint, pop (maybe more?) Are all "Ubuntu", so their representation is divided.
Completely agree I was surprised to see Arch on top still! Plus I'm very new at all this...
And Manjaro is Arch.
Oh! That makes it close again!
Maybe I need to look into arch/Manjaro, unless it's not new-friendly.
Arch is very powerful and flexible, but definitely not newbie friendly. I only made the jump after 7 years of using Ubuntu and Debian, and I still had a learning curve.
Arch is at the top because of the steam deck which uses arch
I'd probably use arch if there was an easy general immutable/atomic version of it. I just don't trust bleeding edge rolling enough to not have that kind of a safegaurd.
I use arch with btrfs and a pacman hook, that creates a snapshot before and after every update.
You can also configure grub to create new entries for those snapshots and boot directly from them.
For me this is safeguard enough.
It's a pain. Stuff does break for no reason. I'm a slave to it's enhanced hardware compatibility and higher success rate at running proton games that are borderline. You just can't beat the wiki and the community support. It's too good to not have. But you still run into issues it's just that I'd be no better off on a different distro.
Maybe BlendOS?
I put Garuda on my wife's gaming PC, she absolutely loves it & it does everything it should, no problems whatsoever. And it's based on arch, so if there is something, I know how to fix it. Awesome beginner gaming distro imo, recommend!
I 2nd Garuda. I absolutely love it.
Me gaming on gentoo
minty fresh baby
Ubuntu has 13% marketshare dam thats mighty impressive I'm surprised I fought ubuntu would be way lower
My opinion on Manjaro seems unpopular, but I still like it. I daily-drive Manjaro happily.
It's Arch that just works out of the box.
But most importantly, I already have it set up, and I am lazy. If it's not broken (too much), don't fix it.
id really like to try out nobara some day