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Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project (itsfoss.com)
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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

As others suggest, why stay attached to Manjaro at all? Instead of forking, what about expending that energy on a rising distro without such reputational damage?

CachyOS is very close “in spirit” if they want to develop modified/custom packages, but there are plenty Arch downstream distros with less toxic communities.

They could even fork some other project and make the changes they like. It’d be a saner base than Manjaro at this point.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 5 hours ago

EndeavorOS too, which is even closer to "vanilla" Arch than CachyOS.