Source?

Congrats on the excellently crafted strawman, you sure showed that non-existant asshole!

If it hits that It’ll go much higher very quickly, linuxes problems are literally all related to marketshare or need a few more years of ironing out the wayland transition… which by then will likely be done.

CentOS has nothing to do with that and existed no more or less at the whims of its company than any other distro run by a specific group of maintainers, if the manjaro corp failed the exact same thing would happen to it.

Even if llm’s are a dead end, the amount of money going into creating AI dramatically pushes forward the date of its existence, we just emulated a fly brain, they’re doing a mouse next. This is a somewhat undeniable path to real intelligence, it will happen soon, even if the compute needed for a human brain turns out to be immense, the fly intelligence basically proved all you need is the connectome, so uh, yeah. If someone figures out how to automate the work that was done on the fly on a larger scale we’ll be there real quick.

If you don’t like the immutability then use nobara.

Tbh I don’t think the issues with immutability are CURRENTLY there.

you said this:

“Entirely community-driven (so suffer much less from corporate influence, and are better from the Linux “freedom” standpoint compared to Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc.)”

give me one example of a time this mattered

“Widely adopted (have extensive communities supporting the repos, a large knowledge base and active forums)”

fedora obviously has this.

“Not heavily opinionated (allow proprietary programs, work with systemd, etc.)” And this.

i conclude that you have still not made any case that there is even one reason to use manjaro that isn’t the cost of switching.

that’s not an argument to what I said in fact it’s basically exactly what I said, manjaro users only use manjaro because it’s what they’re already using, not because it’s better designed for any particular usecase.

“There’s literally no reason to use this distro that isn’t just that you’re already used to it.” Was exactly what I said.

you’re right, I oversimplified, bazzite is great because it’s unhindered by patents and preinstalls the drivers, I’d recommend a community fedora fork, the key being that it’s much easier to turn fedora into this than arch.

manjaro is this but with way more footguns, I say this having maintained a bunch of manjaro systems for people, switching them to bazzite fixed nearly all of my maintenance burden, because it’s easy to remove them from fedora but impossible with arch, intentionally, and by design.

If you want something easy that just works arch is very deliberately designed to not be that, on purpose, even.

If you want slightly faster stable then you probably want something like https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Slowroll

which does exactly that but has a competent team backing it.

or even fedora, really.

My recommendation for someone that needs an appstore with a gui is fedora, manjaro is terrible for this, because they have an appstore that regularly breaks and requires cli intervention anyway, if having a gui for package management is important to you manjaro is a terrible choice, as is arch in general.

read some of the comments here, this is not uncommon, and it’s a fundamental issue with the design of arch package management that has been completely resolved elsewhere.

No, I do not agree at all that that is a valid usecase for manjaro. Anybody who needs a distro that works out of the box and is convenient shouldn’t even be considering anything arch based.

That’s normal most distros do that, what does manjaro do better than others? You have not made any sort of case for why manjaro is better.

you fall under “haven’t thought about distros philosophies”

you did not actually compare anything, what you discovered is that manjaro works… but so does everything else so that’s not a valid comparison, usless you can point to distros that don’t work and why

Tell me why I’m wrong.

literally impossible, even if it was run by competent people (it isn’t) its design fundamentally caters to no-one

want easy arch? Cachyos, endeavoros

are those too hard? Fedora, aurora, bazzite

The current design of slowing down arch breaks more things than it solves and just results in a significantly harder to fix setup.

the only people who like manjaro haven’t tried anything else and haven’t really thought about their distros philosophies at all, or just got really unlucky with other distros. There’s literally no reason to use this distro that isn’t just that you’re already used to it. That’s not even factoring in that the distro is a net negative for the community (see: ddosing the aur)

Because then you can at least make use of them, imagine a website like chatgpt that’s just hundreds of these reverse engineered behind the scenes and is convenient, easy and free. Solves the problem without being wasteful, win-win.

I think it is a bad idea, just stick to the official repos and this is a non-issue.

if it becomes an issue anyway AV won’t help you.

I used something like it when I had a passive mixer so that I could work and use my personal pc.

don’t get a passive mixer though.

This would make sense if you were in a relationship for years… a hookup? nah man get the goddamn condom on

Yes, because nixos and distributed git-based dotfiles, would be so much work to have a second setup for no real gain, I do investigate other distros regularly though

The emphasis makes sense because of the nature of the project, a human would do it in this context.

Undeclared use of ai is problematic but I care verv little, there are bigger problems.

It’s an llm tick because humans do it. This is a completely invalid form of analysis, if it was an em-dash that would only be evidence because standard keyboards don’t have an em dash key.