Alt text: A line plot with 2 axis (confidence vs competence) referencing the Dunning-Kruger effect with various distro logos placed at different points on the line. Starts with mint/ubuntu near (0,0) and progressing through multiple distros to end up with opensuse/fedora at what it calls β€œthe plateau of sustainability”

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[–] 137 points 1 year ago (31 children)

why is manjaro there twice? it's a horrible experience no one in their right mind would return to

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  • [–] [S] 87 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    β€œMaybe I was the problem?”

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  • [–] 88 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    they managed to make arch less stable, never update their ssl cert, and every installation slowly falls apart until it's unusable... sure, I'm the problem

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I love my Manjaro. I always come back to it… but I may not be in my right mind.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    To be fair, it's OK. Just you might want to check out EndeavourOS when you need to format your PC again.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I have both and I like them almost equally.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    This is perfectly normal.

    It also works with a Gaussian: (Noob) haha Fedora go brrr -> (angry advanced) nooo you must use Arch/Nix/Gentoo/Slackware -> (Linus Torvalds) haha Fedora go brrr

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Fedora fucked up my PC way more times in a year than Gentoo did in 3.

    I'm not leaving Gentoo.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I've updated fedora releases for like 10 years with zero issues, even went from one laptop to the other and dd'd three times to new SSDs without reinstalling.

    I think it may be you who fucked up your PC.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    It was nvidia drivers mostly.

    And it was 12 years ago.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah I had lots of problems with Winmodems on Slackware 20 years ago, definitely a bad distro too!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I switched to Ubuntu then and has no issues since.

    So yeah.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Except Fedora is actually fine as an option. Though I had my share of troubles setting it up, and their decision to ditch X11 forced my hand to OpenSUSE when I went for it the second time. Had no regrets so far.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Look, don't judge me, but manjaro has been the only distro to just work. I haven't been fucked by nvidia drivers that I know of, I haven't had any glaring issues... I'm not saying I disagree with the criticisms, but as a 'just use the fucking computer' distro, it's great.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    As someone who ran Manjaro as my first Linux for 1,5 years, it's a breeze to set up and everything just works...until it doesn't.

    What screws it is that eventually, over time, something goes wrong. Something breaks here and there, new bugs appear, and without Arch proficiency that is not really expected of a Manjaro user, it's next to impossible to track it down. So, eventually one has to reinstall.

    I've been a strong Manjaro proponent back in the day, but now I see its flaws, unfortunately. I wish it could be a great option, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    Lol, that does make me wonder. I think I changed the boot process from silent to visible at one point, because it wouldn't boot if the silent option was enabled.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    That's...very odd :D

    Especially if it was GRUB. This thing normally just works on any distro, even the less stable ones.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Manjaro is a tempting option when you want Arch without being competent enough to confidently operate Arch.

    Been there before. Had it for over a year for the first time, but quickly noped out on the second try.

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