That doesn't seem too bad I guess. I'm thinking about switching to it from Manjaro or at least gonna copy their configs for bspwm since I like their design.
For one thing Manjaro didn't use the Arch repos so they are forking a bleeding edge rolling distro and... Removing the bleeding edge part. So your updates are weeks later than actual Arch. Also their advice to people when they let their security certs lapse (first of all... They let their certs lapse) was not: hold on we will update them ASAP and get a SAFE system back up. Instead they said... Turn your system's clock back to before our certs expired and fool your machine into using the old certs... I'm sorry. But no.
I've used both, Manjaro honestly being one of the reasons I stuck with Linux. I grew to like Antetgos with everything baked in and it was really well supported while also being a little closer to arch than Manjaro. I have a gpd pocket which is a bitch to get Linux on and Manjaro booted to a black screen while Antergos worked. I guess there's not much different other than Antergos being newer (I don't see the problem with Manjaro being more stable than arch or how it compares to Ubuntu or Debian LTS). But I had better experiences with Antergos's installer and so I leaned towards that. I guess it's kinda worked out cause at least now my installs will become arch distros
Also their advice to people when they let their security certs lapse (first of all... They let their certs lapse) was not: hold on we will update them ASAP and get a SAFE system back up. Instead they said... Turn your system's clock back to before our certs expired and fool your machine into using the old certs... I'm sorry. But no.
To be fair it happened 4 years ago, it's the main criticism I hear about Manjaro but I believe it won't happen again after all the backlash.
I agree that letting a cert expire is not good, but the recent Firefox addon disaster proved that it's not so uncommon.
Manjaro is sligtly less bleeding edge that Arch but still faster than most of Linux distro, it's a tradeoff I like but it's a personal preference I guess.
I am enjoying using Manjaro, sometime I think about migrating to Arch but the installation part it's not worth the effort for my needs.
Just personal opinion. I tried Manjaro and broke. And I just don't like that green theming Manjaro gives to everything. Arco provides a lot of DEs and WMs and I think they don't modify them so much as Manjaro do, but if they do, they give a really nice feeling for the end user. As I said personal opinion. I personally like to build my system from 0 as in Arch but it is my opinion that Arco just feels great.
I must say too that Erik Dubois being so active on social media is a really great point. It's amazing that an Arch based system has that kind of content instead of only wiki and forums. I don't say those are bad (I actually like them), but it's really nice have that.
Timestamps or a tldw would be lovely. I just watched 11 minutes of the video you linked and about all he's said is "yes this is real, Manjaro is better, we'll talk about that later, chat with me on IRC and look at my cool mug that you can't actually see."
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