Why I Switched From Arch to Manjaro

[Zendo]

Those are the reasons why I will stick to Manjaro. I have all the flexibility of Arch with some extra stability. I do not use any Manjaro utilities though, as I have *pretty much* stripped everything down, when switching to i3.

EDIT: Switched to Arch, just because it was the easier option do a custom setup I had in mind for security and backups.

[missversteherin]

Pretty funny ... I also switched from Arch to Manjaro yesterday for similar reasons. Arch is a good starting point to get familiar with the general Arch philisophy, and you learn a lot during install and settings things up. Nobody designed a system that just works and you have no idea why. But after doing it a few times on a laptop, a convertible and on the main production machine, you constantly have to research what you need, why things don't work (yet) and ... basically, I guess I just hot tired. My main hobbies are not installing operating systems, but using them productively. Then it was even more funny that Manjaro approached many things similarly to what I disvovered and did in Arch, so why bother then. And the 14 days grace period you get from Arch native packages to approval for Manjaro is a good thing. What are 14 days? That is easy to accept for an additional check to prevent rough flaws to sneak in.
I come from Ubuntu und Debian. There you waited 14 MONTHS longer for something to find its way to your system.
To consider: what takes longer? Handpicking all packages and extensive research, or a quick install and then remove 10 things?
I got tired of Ubuntu's "crawling release" cycle, tried the complete opposite with Arch (and mostly loved being on the bledding edge), and Manajro now seems to be the greatest little compromise to greatly fulfil my needs.
And yes, I also prefer rolling out the same distro on all my machines, not mixing it all up and struggling with different package repos and managers.

[okay]

For me it’s EndeavourOS because:
GUI installation.
No bloat.
Using Arch repositories and normal rolling-release updates.

[augustin]

Thank you for this video, I have also switched to Manjaro because it simply works and I can keep my workflow with the AUR and the terminal, it is also more stable which is really important when you use it as your daily driver

[LinuxinaBit]

I barely use AUR, so you're absolutely right about the official repos having a lot of packages.

[dennisask]

I too switched from Arch to Manjaro for my daily driver. The out of the box features on Manjaro just take too much time to setup on Arch and often are not replicated exactly if you use multiple workstations.

[abaneyone]

I’m seriously considering switching back too. However, this video makes me realize how much I enjoy the original Half-Life game.

[UnethicalMonkey]

i switched from gentoo to manjaro and i love it so much

[josmoify]

arch arm runs just fine on my pbp for several months now.

[ChristopherGray]

highly agree with this one, while i use ubuntu as my host, on my virtual machine i have switched to manjaro for the same reasons.

[lonercheki]

few weeks ago i distrohopped for the check the another distros and DE's before that i used manjaro xfce for 2 year and it never broked or i never have to use timeshift or etc. im not a power user, im noob and i want stay as noob; well when i distrohopped i install arch and pamac on it too but pamac didnt worked as it works on manjaro, i installed pamac not only for gui i installed it because when i want to try new applications i wanted to see some pictures about it, but it didnt worked well and in arch i didnt get pictures as on manjaro .. whatever after that manjaro does many things basic with pre tuning, for example ; just right click to thunar and open it as root :] and i like pamac syntax much more than pacman, even if i have to use terminal i prefer pamac install or remove rather than pacman -S -R -Sy -Syu -Rsu what the f# :D and installing process damn remind me thirld world country's brocracy :] manjaro is good for me the best distro but you know there is not best distro and every distro have own advantages etc, and you can not choose distro, sometimes distro choose you because works on your rig well :) im happy for manjaro choose me :] btw i tried endavour too was nice than arch because it have graphical installer, but i missed manjaro devs tunings for last user :]

[zekrinealfa]

How many times do you install your OS, for the installation time to be an issue?

[LeJimster]

I've installed Arch on both my main desktop and my laptop. Definitely a slower process than just using a GUI installer with the likes of Manjaro. I'm considering upgrading my boot drive and rather than waste hours installing Arch from scratch, possibly moving back to Manjaro or another Arch based distro.

[shaunnan]

what is the name of this game you are playing? it looks so nice, i want to play it.

[jhonyortiz]

There was a big update for Manjaro today. Broke my system. I used timeshift and everything is good again but this is the second time I've had my system break with Manjaro. Last time it was worse, grub broke and that was a pain to fix. There is some extra bloat eve with the minimal edition of Manjaro but it comes almost setup to what I would want. The harder way may be to create my own script to install arch. But I'm wondering how stable that would be. Is Manjaro more stable? Because it already has caused me issues multiple times. I don't even do anything just update and it breaks. Some things I am able to fix others I just live with but this is getting to be annoying. My hope is that a more minimal system will be less likely to break.

[gurugara]

I think arch is a experimental OS, very DIY and good for testing and learning but also can be used as your personal OS if u want, arch based OS like manjaro are made for general purpose

[okay]

2:42 What?!
Vivaldi is in “Official Repositories (community)”..

[JamesSmith-ixjd]

Arch got an installer script, I don't remember when it was added maybe after you've made the video, anyway it's now only 10 minutes install, no need to type anything in, except few numbers for your choices.

[selfelements]

What is the official repository of Manjaro?

[bendover]

Why is that? Can you switch to Artix or even Void Linux?