• naeap@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Every Debian/apt based distribution needed a reinstall after some time.
    very probably my fault, but with Arch I always could save my install somehow, while with apt it was a lost cause - for me at least.

    But I spent much more time with Debian based system in the past and still all my customer production machines are on a Debian variant, for my laptop and workstation, I’m happy with Arch - or if I’m lazy with Manjaro

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      1 year ago

      Go for Endeavour over Manjaro for lazy-Arch. Manjaro is the least stable of the bunch.

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        1 year ago

        The choice for Manjaro was quite some time ago, so maybe it’s time for a re-evaluation.

        Could you tell me, what you think the advantages of Endeavour are?

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          1 year ago

          Endeavour is essentially just a GUI installer that spits out a proper Arch install with a few nice-to-haves pre-installed (like yay for example), and some good defaults (like increased parallel downloads for pacman).

          Manjaro, on the other hand, holds back packages from the main Arch repos for testing. Which is reasonable in theory, but it means you can have compatibility errors if you install things from the AUR (which is the main draw of Arch IMO).

          The Manjaro team has also forgotten to renew their SSL certificates multiple times (and told people to roll back their system clocks to fix the problems it caused), as well as DDOSing the AUR a few times too.

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            1 year ago

            Thanks!

            I’ve read the SSL story, but never had a problem.

            Endeavour sounds interesting though, thanks!