• TwilightKiddy@programming.devEnglish
    71·
    5 days ago

    For the love of all that’s saint, can we please stop recommending Manjaro to people, especially newbies?

    It’s not really a preference thing, Manjaro team did plenty of questionable stuff with it, as in DDoSing AUR, mind you, twice, or letting their server certificates expire, also more than once.

    It also routinely shows more stability issues that led to the infamous “I swear to god, if it’s Manjaro again…” in AUR discussions. Apart from AUR problems, they also shipped alpha quality things to their users, like this and this.

    I’ve used Manjaro myself for around a month. If you are treating it as a regular Arch installation, you will break it.

    If you want something up to date, but more stable than Arch, just use Fedora. If you insist on it being Arch-based, use something like CachyOS. Or you can read the wiki and install Arch itself. Arch is a DIY distro, after all.

      • coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        41·
        2 days ago

        There’s a difference between getting hacked via an exploit, and letting your certificates expire out of sheer carelessness.

        • dumbpotato@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          11·
          4 days ago

          Right.

          Getting your website hacked and serving malicious ISOs is way more dangerous for users.

          Or maybe this isn’t about security at all? Just jumping on the hate-bandwagon to fit in with other people?

          I know what I’d put my money on.

    • TerHu@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      i also used manjaro, and whilst they had a pretty looking theme on grub, it broke on me three times, where i managed to repair it the first two and then just installed fedora the third time. never looked back. when i installed manjaro i ran an update after boot and immediately lost a bunch of manjaro theming in my DE… wth?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    31·
    5 days ago

    Step one: ignore all video guides because I’d rather read about tech at the pace that I read, not at the pace that someone presents it.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      Why not just… not watch?

      Why tell everyone that you don’t like videos or what this person on YouTube is doing with their time?

      • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        To inform people that their reach decreases when they don’t provide their ideas in text. I mean, they already have the script. All they need to do is upload it somewhere.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
      21·
      5 days ago

      Meh, everyone has different preferences, I’m firmly on the side of the written word myself, but I don’t mind the occasional video presentation of something lol

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        4 days ago

        I don’t mind a video for a review. But for instructions, I want to be able to easily skim and skip over things that I already know or that don’t apply to me.

  • 0101100101@programming.devEnglish
    11·
    4 days ago

    I don’t get it. An OS is to help you do stuff and not get in your way. Why do people argue over which is the best one to use and why is it Debian? No one cares what you use, just shut up and be productive.

      • HakunaHafada@lemm.ee
        4·
        4 days ago

        Original SoundTrack, such as the music that’s used in movies and video games.

        It’s not the definition you’re looking for in this context, but it is a definition for OST.

        Sorry, couldn’t resist. I’ll see myself out now.