Manjaro 24 is Arch Linux for the rest of us • The Register Forums (2024)

Ah Liam,

You’re ruining my weekends with all these reviews. Now I have to come up with another excuse to ignore/delay doing stuff I was supposed to LAST weekend.

Have a pint, great weekend, and keep these articles coming.

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I like it....

I have used Manjaro KDE on my Acer Aspire laptop for a while.... it mostly works - the last update before this one broke something which causes crashes occasionally. Before that it was quick and rock solid.

I ran the update last night, so am expecting - from the forums - an interesting time this evening trying to persuade Plasma 6 to work as I would like it to. If I get bored I may just re-install from scratch.

The only issue I have with Manjaro in general is that the first comment on any request for help after updating (no matter how respectful that request) is "Why didn't you read x y or z before doing the update?" the second is "Why do you expect your users to read documents they don't know exist before doing an update? Updates shouldn't break stuff" then the subsequent posts are split between zealots ranting "RTFM RTFM", people actually offering help and others saying "waaaa it broke my machine, someone needs to magically fix it without me doing anything or I am leaving"!

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I feel so old...

Once upon a time, Slackware, compiling my own kernels, taking longer to install a distro than using it, before I did it all over.

Now I'm looking at switching to Ubuntu. My brain might well be lost with Arch.

Get off my lawn - I'm trying to come through my walker! :'(

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By far the easiest way to live close to the bleeding edge of Linux while letting the devs do the bleeding. I've been living here for a while and learned to live with most of the quirks.

Two bits consistently continue to annoy. The first is more a problem of linux audio systems than specific to Manjaro - sound never comes back correctly when waking from sleep.

The other is a bit of a head scratcher. A minority of applications from the AUR repos that used to work now just give an icon pop up and immediately close. No doubt someone that knows arcane config file lore could figure it out, but there is literally no user feedback on what's happened and so no clue where to even start on troubleshooting that one.

(Same if attempting to run from the command line also).

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I found Endeavour a better choice

I wanted to escape the SNAP, FLATPACK hell of apps that don't quite work and move from the stealth upgrade of my full Thunderbird install to a flaypack.... pretty pissed about that one... Currently running fine on Endeavour BUT have given up hope of making Bluetooth work without issues...... certainly scratches my itch... Been using a Linux distro for 20+ years

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AUR

I'm an Arch user, have not tried Manjaro. A word to the wise for new users on the AUR: be careful. As implied by the word USER, the software packages and installation scripts available in the AUR are provided and maintained by users. Read the build scripts before installation to see what they are doing and where they are downloading code from, and be aware that at any time, the user may stop updating the package. It's worth looking at all of your AUR supplied software from time to time to make sure it isn't stuck on an older version. If you install enough stuff from the AUR, your system WILL eventually break due to dependency issues. An experienced user will be able to fix it fairly easily in many situations, but it's something to be aware of. When I want software not available in the official repositories, I check to see if it's in the AUR, and also to see whether there is a flatpak version available. If both exist, I make a judgement call on which to use.

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Manjaro works!

I like Manjaro with XFCE. It works. I would recommend Linux Mint initially for beginners, but when one has the urge to check out other (Arch) versions, Manjaro is a good choice. I can remember one problem following a major update, which was resolved by using Timeshift to go back, and unlike the Windows 10 restore offering, Timeshift actually worked! Win restore has never worked for me, and I have had to try to use it many times. I find that Linux installs faster than Windows, it updates more smoothly than windows, and (lots of other nice things to say about Linux!).

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Most Users Are Focused On Applications..........

.......and they could not care less about the OS............

Speaking personally........I had ten years of headaches with an OS from Redmond, WA (say 1990 to 1999)......

RedHat and Fedora have been fine (and mostly inconspicuous) from 1999 till today..................

What am I missing here?

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So is it more stable than Arch?

I like a Linux that needs rebooting less than Windows.

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What our surveyed are saying…

My preferred OS is Mi-Mi-Mi-Mi-Mi oh darn it, I’m switching to Linux.

-Porky Pig, End User

Manjaro is an African Zulu word that means “I can’t install Arch”.

- Chaka Zulu, Warrior King

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