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Also heard about Manjaro, but from what I've seen several people say it's not ideal.
The maintainers have slipped up a couple of times, mostly their website's SSL certificate expiring, but it has never affected me really.
people will usually send you to this lovely website but it's been a while since the maintainer's last felony.
If you're concerned about the stability of the AUR then you could simply switch Manjaro to Unstable, so that the repos are synched with Arch.
Manjaro considers Arch unstable, but itself stable?
But then they release it and ask in the forums "We released a new update. Did we break anything for you?" instead of actually performing integration testing.
No matter how much you test, you'll never hit every edge case.
Just let users tell you what problems they faced, put their feedback under the update page on the forum, users open the forum page for the update they're about to install and they see all the problems people faced, it's a very good idea.
No:
It considers the AUR, and Manjaro's new tools unstable when they enter the unstable branch. Please read the notes.
Thanks I have been using Manjaro for a few years now and like it, but didn't know about those issues. Like how aur scripts are not checked. Maybe it's time to switch around again.
The only reason I switched from Mint to Manjaro was that my new laptops video card wasn't supported (like mint wouldn't boot). But that was a few years ago, so it's probably not an issue anymore.
I used to like Ubuntu but hated Unity and hate snap.
Linux Mint turned snap off back in 2020 and replaced the snap packages with debs again.
I couldn't boot Linux Mint unless I switched from UEFI to Legacy so after 2months of using it I switched to Fedora and then Manjaro.
To this day Kali Linux and Linux Mint cannot boot on my device if it's using UEFI. I tried searching around, asked on forums and nothing came out of that, it's really weird.