▲ 165 ▼ Fuck it, give me your most OVERRATED Distros (www.youtube.com) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by valentino@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml 302 comments fedilink hide all child comments For me Mint Manjaro Zorin Garuda Neon
[–] nerdschleife@lemm.ee 68 points 2 years ago (3 children) Manjaro. It just breaks itself randomly, and performs poorly. Endeavour / ARCO Linux are more stable permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] VoltaicGRiD@mastodon.social 5 points 2 years ago (8 children) @nerdschleife @valentino Eek I just finished installing Manjaro to test it out. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 16 child comments replies: [–] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago Manjaro still hasn't broken once for me. I probably have more AUR packages than ones from the official repos at this point, and I've used the three branches it offers. permalink fedilink source parent [+] clobubba@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] skyeye@fosstodon.org 1 point 2 years ago @clobubba @valentino @nerdschleife @VoltaicGRiD I did the exact same thing. Mint and then manjaro got me to stick with Linux but I’d never recommend it now when endeavor os is right there permalink fedilink source parent [–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) Manjaro is fine. Ran it for a year straight before I broked it. My 2 cents is this. Don't install from AUR unless you have to. Thats how i broked my manjaro install when i was uninstalling packages to fix a bad install. So my install order to protect myself is: Main Repo Flatpak (if its not a system tool like an IDE) AUR permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) But the AUR is the best part of Arch. I agree with you but why not use Arch or EndeavourOS and be free to use the AUR without fear. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago Yes the AUR is the best feature of Arch, which is why I am still using an Arch distro and not Fedora or Debain. However one of Manjaro's features which other Linux distros don't have, is how much of the OS's troubleshooting and repair is in GUIs. For the most part I can setup a fresh Manjaro install without touching the command line once. And that's how I want to use my machines, I want to just browse the web, play games, or do office tasks (the reason I use a computer), not trying to figure out how to install a GUI package manager from the AUR in EndeavourOS since it doesn't come with one. permalink fedilink source parent [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago “Ran it for a year straight alright before I broked it”. Exactly. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child) It's fine. I have a dozen installs of it out in the wild, with very illiterate users, and have had almost no calls from them for problems in the 5+ years that they've been using it. Everyone likes to hate Manjaro, but frankly it's bulletproof. Aaaaand.... commence the downvoting. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 2 years ago* You have to keep updating it fairly often, otherwise things slip through the cracks. Most recently on a machine that hadn't been updated in about a year it wasn't able to install anything because it couldn't update its GPG keyring anymore. I find the solution to be pacman-keys --refresh-keys or something like that. Why they can't do that as part of one of the updates, I don't know. There's also small things that crop up during normal installs but that's to be expected on any distro due to bugs in various packages. permalink fedilink source parent [–] BrianTheFirst@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago I personally found Manjaro to be pretty nice, but i do have a lot of linux experience permalink fedilink source parent [–] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago RIP permalink fedilink source parent [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago Manjaro is amazing ( for a while ). permalink fedilink source parent [–] valentino@lemmy.ml [S] -5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Great, just in time. Uninstall it and try a serious distro like Fedora or Opensuse TW permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago I wouldn't consider Fedora or Opensuse TW better than Manjaro. Just trading one issue for another. Honestly I replaced my 1 year old Manjaro install (when I borked my DE) with Fedora. Fedora lasted 1 month before the btfs filesystem broke and I lost all of my files with no way to recover. Ontop of the difficulty of adding community copr repos for features like XPadNeo, DNF being so slow that Discover would barley function, and being about 2 months behind software fixes for a specific graphic driver bug that prevented me from playing some UE4 game. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zucca@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) Wasn't Manjaro supposed to be the stable version of Arch? That's what I've heard. The few years I had with Arch was pretty nice, but when something broke, it was pain to get it back working because downgrading wasn't (isn't?) supported. I guess I should have used snapshots of my whole system back then. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] nerdschleife@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago Honestly straight arch was more stable for me. I barely knew anything about the AUR back then, I didn't break it installing or tweaking anything. I just customised KDE a bit. I didn't even have a dedicated GPU - I was using Intel integrated permalink fedilink source parent [–] idefix@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Stable is a vague concept but Manjaro takes more time than Arch to update software versions. To me both are rock solid. permalink fedilink source parent [–] idefix@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Still no breaks on my side after 3 years of daily use. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] VoltaicGRiD@mastodon.social 5 points 2 years ago (8 children) @nerdschleife @valentino Eek I just finished installing Manjaro to test it out. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 16 child comments replies: [–] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago Manjaro still hasn't broken once for me. I probably have more AUR packages than ones from the official repos at this point, and I've used the three branches it offers. permalink fedilink source parent [+] clobubba@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] skyeye@fosstodon.org 1 point 2 years ago @clobubba @valentino @nerdschleife @VoltaicGRiD I did the exact same thing. Mint and then manjaro got me to stick with Linux but I’d never recommend it now when endeavor os is right there permalink fedilink source parent [–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) Manjaro is fine. Ran it for a year straight before I broked it. My 2 cents is this. Don't install from AUR unless you have to. Thats how i broked my manjaro install when i was uninstalling packages to fix a bad install. So my install order to protect myself is: Main Repo Flatpak (if its not a system tool like an IDE) AUR permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) But the AUR is the best part of Arch. I agree with you but why not use Arch or EndeavourOS and be free to use the AUR without fear. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago Yes the AUR is the best feature of Arch, which is why I am still using an Arch distro and not Fedora or Debain. However one of Manjaro's features which other Linux distros don't have, is how much of the OS's troubleshooting and repair is in GUIs. For the most part I can setup a fresh Manjaro install without touching the command line once. And that's how I want to use my machines, I want to just browse the web, play games, or do office tasks (the reason I use a computer), not trying to figure out how to install a GUI package manager from the AUR in EndeavourOS since it doesn't come with one. permalink fedilink source parent [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago “Ran it for a year straight alright before I broked it”. Exactly. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child) It's fine. I have a dozen installs of it out in the wild, with very illiterate users, and have had almost no calls from them for problems in the 5+ years that they've been using it. Everyone likes to hate Manjaro, but frankly it's bulletproof. Aaaaand.... commence the downvoting. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 2 years ago* You have to keep updating it fairly often, otherwise things slip through the cracks. Most recently on a machine that hadn't been updated in about a year it wasn't able to install anything because it couldn't update its GPG keyring anymore. I find the solution to be pacman-keys --refresh-keys or something like that. Why they can't do that as part of one of the updates, I don't know. There's also small things that crop up during normal installs but that's to be expected on any distro due to bugs in various packages. permalink fedilink source parent [–] BrianTheFirst@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago I personally found Manjaro to be pretty nice, but i do have a lot of linux experience permalink fedilink source parent [–] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago RIP permalink fedilink source parent [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago Manjaro is amazing ( for a while ). permalink fedilink source parent [–] valentino@lemmy.ml [S] -5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Great, just in time. Uninstall it and try a serious distro like Fedora or Opensuse TW permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago I wouldn't consider Fedora or Opensuse TW better than Manjaro. Just trading one issue for another. Honestly I replaced my 1 year old Manjaro install (when I borked my DE) with Fedora. Fedora lasted 1 month before the btfs filesystem broke and I lost all of my files with no way to recover. Ontop of the difficulty of adding community copr repos for features like XPadNeo, DNF being so slow that Discover would barley function, and being about 2 months behind software fixes for a specific graphic driver bug that prevented me from playing some UE4 game. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago Manjaro still hasn't broken once for me. I probably have more AUR packages than ones from the official repos at this point, and I've used the three branches it offers. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] clobubba@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] skyeye@fosstodon.org 1 point 2 years ago @clobubba @valentino @nerdschleife @VoltaicGRiD I did the exact same thing. Mint and then manjaro got me to stick with Linux but I’d never recommend it now when endeavor os is right there permalink fedilink source parent
[–] skyeye@fosstodon.org 1 point 2 years ago @clobubba @valentino @nerdschleife @VoltaicGRiD I did the exact same thing. Mint and then manjaro got me to stick with Linux but I’d never recommend it now when endeavor os is right there permalink fedilink source parent
[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) Manjaro is fine. Ran it for a year straight before I broked it. My 2 cents is this. Don't install from AUR unless you have to. Thats how i broked my manjaro install when i was uninstalling packages to fix a bad install. So my install order to protect myself is: Main Repo Flatpak (if its not a system tool like an IDE) AUR permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) But the AUR is the best part of Arch. I agree with you but why not use Arch or EndeavourOS and be free to use the AUR without fear. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago Yes the AUR is the best feature of Arch, which is why I am still using an Arch distro and not Fedora or Debain. However one of Manjaro's features which other Linux distros don't have, is how much of the OS's troubleshooting and repair is in GUIs. For the most part I can setup a fresh Manjaro install without touching the command line once. And that's how I want to use my machines, I want to just browse the web, play games, or do office tasks (the reason I use a computer), not trying to figure out how to install a GUI package manager from the AUR in EndeavourOS since it doesn't come with one. permalink fedilink source parent [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago “Ran it for a year straight alright before I broked it”. Exactly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) But the AUR is the best part of Arch. I agree with you but why not use Arch or EndeavourOS and be free to use the AUR without fear. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago Yes the AUR is the best feature of Arch, which is why I am still using an Arch distro and not Fedora or Debain. However one of Manjaro's features which other Linux distros don't have, is how much of the OS's troubleshooting and repair is in GUIs. For the most part I can setup a fresh Manjaro install without touching the command line once. And that's how I want to use my machines, I want to just browse the web, play games, or do office tasks (the reason I use a computer), not trying to figure out how to install a GUI package manager from the AUR in EndeavourOS since it doesn't come with one. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago Yes the AUR is the best feature of Arch, which is why I am still using an Arch distro and not Fedora or Debain. However one of Manjaro's features which other Linux distros don't have, is how much of the OS's troubleshooting and repair is in GUIs. For the most part I can setup a fresh Manjaro install without touching the command line once. And that's how I want to use my machines, I want to just browse the web, play games, or do office tasks (the reason I use a computer), not trying to figure out how to install a GUI package manager from the AUR in EndeavourOS since it doesn't come with one. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago “Ran it for a year straight alright before I broked it”. Exactly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child) It's fine. I have a dozen installs of it out in the wild, with very illiterate users, and have had almost no calls from them for problems in the 5+ years that they've been using it. Everyone likes to hate Manjaro, but frankly it's bulletproof. Aaaaand.... commence the downvoting. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 2 years ago* You have to keep updating it fairly often, otherwise things slip through the cracks. Most recently on a machine that hadn't been updated in about a year it wasn't able to install anything because it couldn't update its GPG keyring anymore. I find the solution to be pacman-keys --refresh-keys or something like that. Why they can't do that as part of one of the updates, I don't know. There's also small things that crop up during normal installs but that's to be expected on any distro due to bugs in various packages. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 2 years ago* You have to keep updating it fairly often, otherwise things slip through the cracks. Most recently on a machine that hadn't been updated in about a year it wasn't able to install anything because it couldn't update its GPG keyring anymore. I find the solution to be pacman-keys --refresh-keys or something like that. Why they can't do that as part of one of the updates, I don't know. There's also small things that crop up during normal installs but that's to be expected on any distro due to bugs in various packages. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BrianTheFirst@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago I personally found Manjaro to be pretty nice, but i do have a lot of linux experience permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago Manjaro is amazing ( for a while ). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] valentino@lemmy.ml [S] -5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Great, just in time. Uninstall it and try a serious distro like Fedora or Opensuse TW permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago I wouldn't consider Fedora or Opensuse TW better than Manjaro. Just trading one issue for another. Honestly I replaced my 1 year old Manjaro install (when I borked my DE) with Fedora. Fedora lasted 1 month before the btfs filesystem broke and I lost all of my files with no way to recover. Ontop of the difficulty of adding community copr repos for features like XPadNeo, DNF being so slow that Discover would barley function, and being about 2 months behind software fixes for a specific graphic driver bug that prevented me from playing some UE4 game. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago I wouldn't consider Fedora or Opensuse TW better than Manjaro. Just trading one issue for another. Honestly I replaced my 1 year old Manjaro install (when I borked my DE) with Fedora. Fedora lasted 1 month before the btfs filesystem broke and I lost all of my files with no way to recover. Ontop of the difficulty of adding community copr repos for features like XPadNeo, DNF being so slow that Discover would barley function, and being about 2 months behind software fixes for a specific graphic driver bug that prevented me from playing some UE4 game. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zucca@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) Wasn't Manjaro supposed to be the stable version of Arch? That's what I've heard. The few years I had with Arch was pretty nice, but when something broke, it was pain to get it back working because downgrading wasn't (isn't?) supported. I guess I should have used snapshots of my whole system back then. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] nerdschleife@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago Honestly straight arch was more stable for me. I barely knew anything about the AUR back then, I didn't break it installing or tweaking anything. I just customised KDE a bit. I didn't even have a dedicated GPU - I was using Intel integrated permalink fedilink source parent [–] idefix@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Stable is a vague concept but Manjaro takes more time than Arch to update software versions. To me both are rock solid. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nerdschleife@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago Honestly straight arch was more stable for me. I barely knew anything about the AUR back then, I didn't break it installing or tweaking anything. I just customised KDE a bit. I didn't even have a dedicated GPU - I was using Intel integrated permalink fedilink source parent
[–] idefix@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Stable is a vague concept but Manjaro takes more time than Arch to update software versions. To me both are rock solid. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] idefix@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Still no breaks on my side after 3 years of daily use. permalink fedilink source parent