People might be hating on Majaro in part because they forgot to renew their SSL certificate at least twice and apparently even recommend users change their computer’s clock as a local hack fix for their lack of ability automate said certificate, a trivial task these days.
Quick search, looks like it expired in at least 2015 and 2022.
I’ve been using Manjaro for like 7 years. Throughout these years I maybe had two issues with updates. I’ve easily fixed one by myself (it was a dependency issue), the other one was a bug in packaging. Mentioned it on their forum, they were crazy fast to reply (I wouldn’t even expect that from a software company, let alone an open source project), and the fix was out in a few hours.
Btw their issue tracking related to updates is top-notch. This is another reason why I had a positive impression with this distro.
Regarding their own software, I am also impressed by their mhwd scripts. Even a shitty Nvidia driver can be easily installed with it, which actually works. And their OS installation framework has been adopted by other distros as well.
I mean, aren’t arch-based distros all have the potential to shit themselves on update due to packaging bleeding edge apps? What’s so different with Manjaro in this regard?
You got out before it answered the question for you. Manjaro will eventually break terribly. It is only a question of when.
How heavily did you use the AUR? In my experience, if you use a lot of AUR packages, Manjaro will break frequently. You probably thought the AUR was way less stable than it is.
I put it on normies systems all the time, I very rarely need to fix it for them. A dozen systems in the wild that I might have touched 3 times in total over the last 5 years.
I’ve been using Manjaro for many years, and it’s been working mostly flawlessly. Minor issues arise sometimes, but that’s incredibly rare, and easy to fix.
I used Manjaro for about 3 years as my first daily driver Linux install, and I agree with you about the functionality. But I think where most people take issue is the unusual errors and behaviors that the maintainers have demonstrated in the past. Most people (including me) don’t want to even have to think about what would happen if the people maintaining my os updates screwed up and luckily us Linux users are spoiled for choice, so people choose/recommend other options.
Any distro is better than windows or macos, so I won’t pick any sides. Anyways, it is manjaro.
Why is there so much hate for manjaro? I used it for a long time and didn’t have any problems with it… genuinely asking!
People might be hating on Majaro in part because they forgot to renew their SSL certificate at least twice and apparently even recommend users change their computer’s clock as a local hack fix for their lack of ability automate said certificate, a trivial task these days.
Quick search, looks like it expired in at least 2015 and 2022.
Because they can’t ship working software. Oh, they also don’t know what “system” means. It shits itself on updates.
For the love of God, use Garuda instead.
I’ve been using Manjaro for like 7 years. Throughout these years I maybe had two issues with updates. I’ve easily fixed one by myself (it was a dependency issue), the other one was a bug in packaging. Mentioned it on their forum, they were crazy fast to reply (I wouldn’t even expect that from a software company, let alone an open source project), and the fix was out in a few hours.
Btw their issue tracking related to updates is top-notch. This is another reason why I had a positive impression with this distro.
Regarding their own software, I am also impressed by their mhwd scripts. Even a shitty Nvidia driver can be easily installed with it, which actually works. And their OS installation framework has been adopted by other distros as well.
I used Manjaro and my wifi adapter would shit itself every update.
I find it hard to recommend a distro that’s so anecdotal. Garuda uses mhwd as well.
I mean, aren’t arch-based distros all have the potential to shit themselves on update due to packaging bleeding edge apps? What’s so different with Manjaro in this regard?
Because Manjaro fucks with the repos, making the AUR poisonous to your system.
You got out before it answered the question for you. Manjaro will eventually break terribly. It is only a question of when.
How heavily did you use the AUR? In my experience, if you use a lot of AUR packages, Manjaro will break frequently. You probably thought the AUR was way less stable than it is.
I put it on normies systems all the time, I very rarely need to fix it for them. A dozen systems in the wild that I might have touched 3 times in total over the last 5 years.
It’s just a mob mentality at this point.
Kids want to fit in with what others kids are doing, so once it becomes cool to hate on manjaro, that’s what the children will do. Without question.
I’ve been using Manjaro for many years, and it’s been working mostly flawlessly. Minor issues arise sometimes, but that’s incredibly rare, and easy to fix.
Manjaro is great.
It just has a bad reputation among those who can’t think for themselves.
I used Manjaro for about 3 years as my first daily driver Linux install, and I agree with you about the functionality. But I think where most people take issue is the unusual errors and behaviors that the maintainers have demonstrated in the past. Most people (including me) don’t want to even have to think about what would happen if the people maintaining my os updates screwed up and luckily us Linux users are spoiled for choice, so people choose/recommend other options.
I agree with every aspect of this comment