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  • Veraxis@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Manjaro 2.0 ManifestoEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Also, if a pkgbuild was updated for security reasons, now Manjaro is putting users at risk by continuing to serve the old version

    Hold up, isn’t that last point just a criticism of delayed updates in general? By that logic, would Manjaro be putting users at security risk by holding back the main packages?

  • Veraxis@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Manjaro 2.0 ManifestoEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Interesting. As a former Manjaro user (several years ago now), my problems with the distro were more with their approach to package management and the AUR. They withhold packages for the main repositories, but the dependencies for AUR packages will always assume the latest packages, so I would constantly get into these dependency deadlocks where I could not install or could not update certain AUR packages because the necessary dependencies were the incorrect version. I view this as a fundamental technical problem with their approach, and was my main reason for switching away.

    Hopefully the new structure/leadership will result in technical changes which fix their issues. Though if I am being honest, the vision of a Manjaro with rolling packages is basically just a reskinned EndeavourOS, so I am not sure what they would need to do for me to recommend this distro to anyone.

  • Veraxis@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    6 days ago

    The best way to go into it is to think of it as learning a new skill. Some things are done differently, some things may require a bit more setup the first time you do them, but once you have your system where you like it, it should be possible to use without thinking about it too much.

    Printers generally work fine in Linux. This is one area where Linux does surprisingly well.

    For all the games, I’m not sure. They may just work with Wine or Proton, but it is far from guaranteed. I have had good results running even quite old games from the late '90s through platforms like GoG, though.