The tradegy of manjaro

This one isnt done yet.

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Introduction

Manjaro (also known as: Manjarno) is a GNU/Linux distro based on Arch Linux. It ""focuses"" on accessability (lie), user friendliness (big lie), and stability (lmfao)

Hovewer, most of what Manjaro did is harm the Linux community, since it gets new users, breaks on them, and makes them avoid Linux till the end of time.

Stability

Manjaro claims to be a ""stable"" distrom but all they do is hold Arch packages back for a week or two. They claim this is for testing, but they dont actually test anything (because even if there is an issue, and a fix to it comes out, it also gets delayed by a week. oh well).

Manjaro also says that it can access the AUR, and while yeah it can (just like every single distro if you know how to read PKGBUILDs), using the AUR in any way, shape, or form, causes a partial upgrade, which then breaks the system. Very nice and user friendly!

So using the AUR breaks the system. Very nice. But what if you try to get support? Well, the Manjaro devs tell you that they actually dont support the aur! Yeah, thats right, they use the AUR as a main selling port, but then claim its not supported if it breaks. Very nice.

User Friendliness

Considering the stuff I said above, I think its fair to say that manjaro is not a user friendly distro. I mean when your devs yell at the users because they used one of the advertised features of your distro (which is also its main selling point), thats not very friendly

lmao /g/

Here ill talk about some things that the manjaro devs did that are >lmao /g/ worthy

SSL certification issues

On three four FIVE seperate occasions, the manjaro devs forgor to renew their SSL certificates. The 2nd time that this happened, they asked their users to rollback their clocks as a fix. Im ok with the fact that they forgot, it happens, but asking your users to rollback clocks is stupid.
The fifth time was their forums page, which nobody uses anyway so who cares lmfao

The treasury incident

Manjaro had a controversy with their treasurer. The manjaro team lead purchased a laptop for 2000 euros, and the treasurer asked him to explain this purchase. The team lead then kicked the treasurer. Congrats.

DDoSing the AUR (twice)

Manjaro's AUR helper, pamac, shipped a version with a bug on 2020-04-26 that accidentally sent thousands of requests to the AUR per user. This rendered the AUR offline for all users across every Arch-based distro for a few hours.

And then again. On 2021-10-14, Manjaro once again shipped a bad version of pamac, resulting in pamac being blocked again. This may have been the cause for the day's earlier outage.