Made the switch, never happier.
Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?
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Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?
#22Snaps are awful. Even simple programs like 'calculator' take multiple seconds to start. I'm planning to bail on Ubuntu soon as well.
Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?
#23I said bye to ubuntu after the snap debacle. Using debian now.
Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?
#24I only know Manjaro in name from the disgust-filled messages in the #archlinux IRC
Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?
#25I still use (K)Ubuntu desktop, but for servers I feel Centos Stream 9 is best choice for a homelab at the moment. Debian is also good. What these two distros have over Ubuntu, is easy and clear documentation. Ubuntu Server adds so much noise, they are changing too many things over the years. Network configuration documentation is a mess. I'm tired of googling for an example thats updated. For Centos I easily find examples that includes how to configure network services correctly with SELinux. Extra security without time wasted is good!
Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?
#26I see all of this complaining about snaps and the "direction" Canonical takes as a purity constest. Yes, Snaps can be annoying (it isn't in my case). Yes, Canonical is far from perfect.
The Snap hate is really overblown. I'm using some to work daily and, apart from the annoying notification that appears far less than before (like once by a blue moon now on my system), they work exactly like .deb files.
Every OS suck in their own specific way. Fix the problems or move on to your new and shiny evergreen OS.
Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?
#27I've been using Regolith (Ubuntu + well-integrated i3) happily for a while, but the Snap moves from Ubuntu are a massive turn-off.
Looks like Regolith can in theory be installed on top of Pop!_OS which seems to target the same audience while going in a more sensible direction. Anybody tried that combo, or have any feedback on PopOS in general?
Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?
#28Manjaro is a nice hobbyist distro but it's not a distro to be taken seriously.
I've been using Manjaro for three years without issue. What gives?
Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?
#29I gave up on Ubuntu after some snap frustrations.
I tried Nix but couldn't figure out how to install some software I needed (dealt with plugins).
I tried Manjaro but the system was unbootable after a software update soon after install and I just don't want to fight problems like that anymore.
I've been using Mint but recently am giving PopOs a try but they've not fixed enough of the Gnome 3 usability problems.
Been a deb used for decades at this point but maybe I'll give Fedora a try next, either going with XFCE (like I did with Mint) or KDE.
Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?
#30Lately I've been running Fedora. Early Ubtuntu & Mark Shuttleworth were a big part of my teens and my first real experience with a Linux Desktop and Philosophy tied to Open Source Software. It's been fun watching Ubuntu evolve over the years and see distros like Mint evolve off of them as well.
Devil's advocate...how much do we really care about these different distros at this point. The world lives out of the browser. As long as I have chrome and VS Code I'm pretty good to go.
Imo package managers/repos, update cycles, and installation process can still be a reasonable differentiator between distros. Admittedly these decisions are fairly minor -- most popular packages are available on the major repos and you probably aren't installing your distro every day. But even though most the time I'm just living in nvim and Firefox, if adding or changing something becomes a chore it can really expand quickly as I might avoid making a positive change to my system just because I can't overcome the initial inertia from having to bend my distro to my will. Then again, that's probably a sign that I should swallow my pride and switch from Arch to Manjaro at some point.