Did I just find next distro to try? :) Kudos to them anyway (yay, that's the kind of news I want to hear)
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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.
Honestly good on them. I hope they succeed and bring the project back to life.
Switching distros was not on my agenda. 🙃
Me neither. The more I dwell on it, the grumpier I'm getting. Distro hopping is a young man's sport. I've got work to do.
Thankfully, I learned the hard way a long time ago that my files are almost entirely on a secondary drive and my home folders are all simply symlinks to folders there, so I won't lose any data since that drive won't be wiped. But it's just such a pain in the butt to set up everything the way I like it.
Gnome has a Save Desktop app which backs up your desktop config, list of Flatpak apps, and the folders you choose. I use Bazzite but I'm not locked in.
That would require that I use Gnome. Which would be worse than reinstalling everything.
I like to have a separate partition for /home Whatever happens I can wipe root safely and install something else.
I used to bother doing all of that too. I just found symlinking achieved the same results without a bunch of manually configuring of mount points.
The fact that CachyOS more or less successfully replaced Manjaro's purpose I guess is evidence of Manjaro's issues.
I forgot but I think Bazzite had similar complaints (due to its use of silverblue) in which case it was just more straightforward to use Fedora or OpenSUSE if you don't want to work with the read only root system.
Downstream distros need to bring additional value to the table to be worth using, otherwise there's really no need if you can make a package group that accomplishes the same thing in one go.
I had been using Pop-os for about a year but wasn't completely happy with it. A friend suggested Bazzite and, to me, it was a lot better in some ways and worse in others. I've since switched to Fedora and don't really have any complaints. I don't plan on switching again baring something I don't see coming.
Looks like a decent plan. I'll have no problem with supporting non-profit
Aragorn writes that Philip Müller (the project lead) has been running Manjaro as his own personal venture rather than a community effort, keeping a tight hold on access to both the codebase and the infrastructure.
These weasels never care about the actual thing that is being built, its just a way to make money for them.
Hope they kick that Philip guy out and get back to making this a passion project.
Burn it down
I started using Manjaro long before all this crap started going down, and I've been holding on hoping this all gets sorted because I hate distto hopping.
But sadly I don't think its going to happen. I've got a new PSU coming to fix a burnt out one that has left my desktop turned off and unupdated for two months. Might be time for an install of something new rather than updating afterwards.
I moved to endeavour. With the same de it feels very similar.
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Huh, that's too bad. I used it for years to get comfortable with an rolling release arch distro. I thought it was good, but it would break from time to time. Thankfully, Arch is easy to install and maintain these days.
Manjaro was quite messy last time I tried it a couple of years ago.
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