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Good.
As a long time Manjaro user is good to see something happening.
As to why I'm a Manjaro user: I installed it on my laptop years ago and it served me well, with only a couple of hiccups (the now famous SSL certificate issue and some repo keys that were broken), nothing too difficult to overcome but that points out some major organizational problems.
Other than that, it just works wonderfully and I'm too lazy to hop.
Manjaro is the distro that made me ditch Windows completely. I even bought a Tuxedo Laptop with Manjaro preinstalled a few years ago, and I almost never had any problem. I love this distro, but if the financial situation is bad enough for them to fire the only full-time developer, it's time to change things. If the community hard forks, I may follow. Or begin to distrohop.
I got a little bored with the anxiety of point version upgrades that standard distributions follow every 6 months or so.
Rolling distros like Manjaro work much smoother for my use case (web browsing, some gaming, light coding).
Isn't Fedora kind of rolling but not really ?
Maybe, I don't know. I tend to stay on the .deb side of the fence.