I am a Linux noobie and have only used Mint for around six months now. While I have definitely learned a lot, I don’t have the time to always be doing crazy power user stuff and just want something that works out of the box. While I love Mint, I want to try out other decently easy to use distros as well, specifically not based on Ubuntu, so no Pop OS. Is Manjaro a possibly good distro for me to check out?

      • @franta@lemmy.ml
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        32 years ago

        EndeavorOS was my first desktop distro and it’s a great beginner distro in my opinion. Most stuff is sanely pre-configured and dealing with stuff like Nvidia drivers and Steam is one click away.

      • b1tstrem1st0
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        12 years ago

        From what I heard, Manjaro is very unpolished. The devs do weird stuff with the OS and their decisions are questionable if I’m not wrong. I think Manjaro isn’t as easy and stable as they advertised.

        Regarding Endeavor OS, they say it is Manjaro done right.

        • @LeFantome@programming.dev
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          32 years ago

          Manjaro is very “polished” which is why many people that try it ( myself included ) love it and come to recommend it. Unfortunately, it is also low quality and poorly managed which is why many ex-users ( myself included ) would never use it again.

          EndevourOS is Manjaro that works. It has no graphical package manager. You can install the one Manjaro uses easy but, sadly, it is unreliable and poor quality ( like Manjaro itself ).

        • @Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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          22 years ago

          What you hear is probably different from what it actually is like. There’s a lot of Manjaro hate from people who’ve never actually used it as their daily driver and are just parroting what other people online are saying.

          I’ve used Manjaro for a year before eventually moving to Endeavour and then Arch. It’s perfectly fine.

          • @Alex@discuss.tchncs.de
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            32 years ago

            Maybe it depends on what packages you use? I used Manjaro for ~2 years before switching to Arch and definitely had more update-related stability problems with Manjaro.

            • @Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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              02 years ago

              On my PC, 2 updates broke it as it wouldn’t start up the DE.

              Well, did you figure out what caused the issue? There’s many things besides the quality of a distro that could cause this, especially on an Arch or Arch derivative. Many Arch users have complained about their DE occasionally failing to boot up due to some random update that broke something for their specific config. Just saying that this doesn’t prove much. It could have been Manjaro, it could have easily also been a bad upstream update or even PEBKAC.

              A few days ago, my standard Arch system upgraded to a version of pipewire-pulse that created duplicate audio devices on every audio profile change. I could have easily just said, “Arch is a shitty distro, they can’t even get audio devices working correctly”, but that would be misleading. Anecdotal statements like yours are too vague to prove a point about any distro.

              Devs have complained about them distributing non-master branch features that weren’t sufficiently tested or released and got their issue tracker flooded.

              This isn’t an issue specific to Manjaro. This also happens to any upstream project that are shipped by downstream. Many distros ship unofficial patches to upstream software, this is NOT new.

              You may love it and great for you, but people won’t give you free reign to advise a bad distro

              I don’t use it anymore as I am on regular Arch now, but during my time using Manjaro for about a year, I genuinely didn’t see much issue with it, at least no more than what I’ve been experiencing with Arch. I am just annoyed at how some people had one or two bad experiences and then are just jumping on the hate bandwagon with nothing much to back it up.

                • @Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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                  12 years ago

                  You do realize that you’re basically saying your anecdotal experience is better than mine right? So you’re basically doing the same thing you’re accusing me of, thinking that everyone’s experience is like yours. All I asked was whether you actually figured out what the root cause was. From your vague response, I can only surmise you didn’t do the least amount of debugging and decided to blame Manjaro just because. All the other distros you tested on weren’t even Arch-based, so you don’t even have a solid understanding of whether it was actually Manjaro or an Arch issue.

                  you’re coming across as a Manjaro shill.

                  Seriously? I am not even using Manjaro anymore as per my post. Just because I am not blindly following the crowd and jumping on hate bandwagons whenever I see one doesn’t make me a shill. Calm yourself.