Is there anybody whose had experience with both?

I’m trying to decide if I want to go back to Manjaro or get into Endeavour.

  • thingsiplay
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    1211 months ago

    @neurodivergentAF Go with EndeavourOS. I used Manjaro for 1.5 years and a little more. Just switched to EndeavourOS. I’m not listing here all the stuff that Manjaro did wrong, but rather point out a specific problem. Manjaro holding packages is a problem, if you ever use the AUR. Because the packages on the AUR normally expect the newest versions from Archlinux. So the mixture of hold back packages from Manjaro and the newest one from AUR can cause problems. And you can wait weeks before Manjaro updates the packages. And also I personally encountered 2 bugs with the pamac tool (which is recommended over pacman and handles the AUR as well), which one of them I reported and it got fixed.

    I switched to EndeavourOS since half a year and don’t have any of these AUR concerns. The distro maintainer aren’t doing any obvious stupid stuff as well. It’s closer to real Archlinux and overall feels great.

    • @HobbesHK
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      511 months ago

      I’ve been on Manjaro for about 1.5 years now too. I switched over to the Unstable branch a while back, which fixed this issue for me. This branch seems to be getting all packages at the same speed as regular Arch. Plus, I still get the Manjaro-specific kernels, access to their repos, integrated pamac, etc. For now, I’m sticking with Manjaro this way.

      • ares35
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        111 months ago

        i’ve been using manjaro on an olderl desktop at the office, and in a vm at home, for a couple years now. i’ve never had an issue with it on either. i’ve used it enough to prefer onlyoffice now, over the other free msoffice alternatives.