Wherever people say “Manjaro just broke” it’s good odds they tried to use it like an Arch install. Installing drivers “the Arch way”, pointing the repos at Arch, using bleeding edge kernel versions etc.
It may be Arch but it’s been set up in a certain way and if you mess with it it won’t work. Not messing with it is the whole point of the distro.
It does have a wiki and forums etc. so I feel that if people read a bit before doing stuff we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
zloubida explained it with the link well enough. More importantly for me, the package repository seemed to stop being maintained, because many of my packages had no updates for a significant amount of time (and they had been updated elsewhere when I checked).
Conflicts between the project leadership and the developers. I stayed on Manjaro though, this kind of things is in fact good news: it means that people in charge care, and I think things will be better thanks to that. I’ll just follow the devs if things don’t go better.
my manjaro has been running the same install for 6 years on ext4 no separate home partition…
what are yall doing to brick your machines?
Right? The OP describes me (except I like to think I’m not that sweaty) and I don’t remember ever having reinstalled because things were broken.
I remember using manjaro vanilla and breaking it in a single month of use.
No aur enabled, no nothing - it just broke, it wasn’t even funny
Wherever people say “Manjaro just broke” it’s good odds they tried to use it like an Arch install. Installing drivers “the Arch way”, pointing the repos at Arch, using bleeding edge kernel versions etc.
It may be Arch but it’s been set up in a certain way and if you mess with it it won’t work. Not messing with it is the whole point of the distro.
It does have a wiki and forums etc. so I feel that if people read a bit before doing stuff we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
The funny thing is that i did none of that, the hardware i was using didn’t need additional drivers and i didn’t add any extra repos.
Perhaps i did something wrong, or autoupdates were interrupted but i don’t remember doing anything extraordinary with the install.
Manjaro isn’t Arch. Doesn’t use the same repos.
You’re still using manjaro after all their drama? I jumped ship.
What happened?
zloubida explained it with the link well enough. More importantly for me, the package repository seemed to stop being maintained, because many of my packages had no updates for a significant amount of time (and they had been updated elsewhere when I checked).
Conflicts between the project leadership and the developers. I stayed on Manjaro though, this kind of things is in fact good news: it means that people in charge care, and I think things will be better thanks to that. I’ll just follow the devs if things don’t go better.
It still gets updates and still works so why jump ship.