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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I've been iso live testing Manjaro KDE Plasma lately and it looks very polished.

On the other hand, there is a negative vibe towards it.

Why the hate?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Besides the points made - using their own repos. It kind of defeats an important point of using Arch, if you don't use the official repos as your main source of packages imo.

It's a rolling release. You have to let it roll. Arch already has testing repos, there is zero need to test outside of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

there is zero need to test outside of them.

Then how do you explain Arch users have to deal with breakages Manjaro users do not because the Manjaro team doesn't push updates as quickly?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because they don't push updates as quickly, which reduces the chances of something slipping through, be it their merit or not. This comes at the expense that it sometimes breaks dependencies and still has close to zero real benefits:

You are better off simply using snapshots. Then you don't depend on the testing of either party.
Even if the Manjaro devs do to find bugs, they could have found them in Arch Testing as well, which benefits everyone.

I stand by my point that the update strategy is not a feature.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have snapshots included as well.
Bugs found even in Testing and Stable can be prevented from entering Manjaro repos!

I stand by my point that the update strategy is a feature. You might not understand this, but my experience speaks for itself!