"I will go on the record as saying that Manjaro Linux is a bad Linux distribution and a bad place to send this money. They have a history of internal corruption, a record of questionable spending, and a plethora of technical issues and problematic behavior in the FOSS ecosystem. What limited budget there is to go around was wasted in their hands."
I use manjaro and I love it. Never knew the community was like this though. Does anybody have more information on the above?
How do you prevent manjaro from bricking itself every few months? Do you just not update it? That's why I stopped using it. I have no idea what their QA looks like but it can't be very extensive.
I'm now testing out straight-up Arch with a manually-installed KDE Plasma for a few months now (inside a VM that I frequently snapshot). No issues so far.
It never bricked for me, but I had regular issues from updates when I used it a few years ago. I don’t remember the details, though. I switched to Arch and things are much more stable.
The only thing that annoys me on Arch (or any rolling distro) is that you have to update things like postgresql as they come, because holding that package back counts as a “partial upgrade”.
To me that's one of the benefits for most things, I can understand something like not wanting to take a feature bump when there's still support for a version.
You can just install that version out of aur and that package will track that specific major version.
Next time instead of an upgrade. Backup, remove the pacman package, install the air package and restore and you'll save yourself a lot of headaches.
"I will go on the record as saying that Manjaro Linux is a bad Linux distribution and a bad place to send this money. They have a history of internal corruption, a record of questionable spending, and a plethora of technical issues and problematic behavior in the FOSS ecosystem. What limited budget there is to go around was wasted in their hands."
I use manjaro and I love it. Never knew the community was like this though. Does anybody have more information on the above?