Pretty much the title. Where’s the hate towards Manjaro coming from? I was pretty much a Ubuntu/Fedora user for years but never got too technical. Used almost always gnome, but recently got interested in tiling wm and have done some searches and stumbled upon the Manjaro Sway edition and everything works quite well, but I keep seeing people bashing on Manjaro and I don’t know exactly why. So if I were to use sway in Arch or Arco (way friendlier to install) if there any simple way to replicate the makeup sway default configuration?
Thank you all for your time.
Just use Manjaro, it’s a great distro. I switched from Arch a few years ago because Arch kept changing the tools from the installer so every time I had to read the wiki to know how to install it, and that’s not fun.
In general people don’t like Manjaro because it’s a week behind Arch, so if you install things from the AUR you’re likely to break stuff (although that has never happened to me, it is a possibility). Also because since it’s simple to install a lot of people without technical knowledge have started using it and they say they use Arch, so they get replies which assumed they read the wiki, and they get angry, which makes them seem more annoying, which makes the whole thing escalate.
You’re not really more likely to break stuff.
Things in the AUR are built for Arch, so they use the libraries that Arch uses, which means that whenever Arch increases major versions of libraries AUR packages get rebuilt for that version and fail to work on an older one. If you use the packages that build from source you’re less likely to be affected, also this is not such a huge issue because AUR packages take a while to get updated and most of these changes are backwards compatible (so they don’t break on Arch), but I’ve seen it happen plenty of times, almost every week someone using Manjaro would come to the arch subreddit to ask help because a package from AUR had stopped working. And if you don’t believe me, at least believe the guys who wrote the Manjaro wiki
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