I read these comments from followers and and criticizers of each distro. The “pros” and “cons” of each brand distro are so strongly but, in fine, the looser is the Linux OS ! Microsoft has then many reasons to show how Linux is less serious system than Windows, and they are right to say !
I’ve been using FreeBSD and Linux (starting with Yggdrasil in october 1992) for 2 decades now. I’ve been using the different vbariants of Linux includinf : RH—>Fedora, Debian—>Ubuntu, Suse—>OpenSuse and finally keepin using Arch since 4 years now and keep going with it.
In the sttrugling field of Linux distros, the end user might feel really lost. Why all of these “things” showing “Linux” but not compatible at all ? Why OS X, based on FreeBSD, is not fighting against the latter as Manjaro, Chakra, ArchBang, Bridge …do with Arch?
I came to try all of the mentioned distros. Ok. They all seem good for the beginners and advanced users as weel. But why not work together to make a Linux OS work better against Windows 7 and 8 ?
Arch is, by far, the best and better way for Linux to work for the masses but still hard to make it work out of the box. Manjaro has a very good tools to put nvidia work fine, like their mhwd-nvidia. Why not joining Arch and contibute to improve it rather creating one more distro and fragmenting the Arch one more ?
I understandthat some people leaving Arch community to buikld their own system but, why ? There are many distros around and some dying ater one, two or more/less than that. Maybe manjaro will survive longer or messer, but at the end, it’s Linux that fails in gaining respectability and trustness. The guys from manjaro team are, no dobt, a very good devs, why do they leave a so promizing system as Arch is, to build a new distro that’ll never reach the masses ? What to say about Gentoo/Sabayon and so on ?
Trying to make my printer working on Manjaro… Leads me to Arch repos to install the drivers…
It’s a joke. Isn’t it ?

Thanks for eading. I know. There couldn’t be any asnwer. So, come back here in… 5 years ?
Good luck for the Manjaro team and hope see you back to the home.

And your comment about the ext4 issue shows that you really have no idea what it was… and given it affected version 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 – it was not moved to [core] – it was in [core] for about half a year. (As it was in Manjaro).

Do your research before responding again…

Another example was the ext corruption (a securryty problem that as far I know affect reaaly users), In place of wait for the addresing the problem or watch if a patch exist, you push the kernel whit the problem on [core]

I am new to Linux & after initially settling on Mint, I tried my hand at installing Arch on a 2nd laptop & failed. I then installed Manjaro & am loving it. I feel your piece about Manjaro “ignoring security for stability” misses the wider picture, which is that as a young, upcoming distro, it is fulfilling a need for users who want the benefits of an Arch based system, but in a manner that doesn’t require the same level of technical expertise.

There’s nothing wrong with that. The wonderful array of alternative operating systems draws many away from Windows and will hopefully continue to do so. So what if the user you quoted at the start of your piece ditched Arch after 2 years and is now happy with Manjaro. No doubt there will be disaffected & disappointed users going the other way.

That’s the beauty of choice.

Long live Linux!

Newbzki.

A month? Nah. I’ll leave you to your logs.

And as I said, have you actually read at what cost waiting to update comes at? They do not have the team to even attempt to review the security implications of all [core] package updates, so important update sit and wait. That is the wrong approach to stability…