"Auto Update" vs "Breaking after long time without updates"

[Aragorn]

@soundofthunder

Observation:- They rarely bother reading any tutorials, or related posts, even when directed to them; the trend is they ask a vague question; wait 2 minutes for an answer; and then leave.

Or, am I being too harsh?

No, they wait longer than two minutes. About twenty minutes. And then they start a duplicate thread.

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@michaldybczak

Also, since Manjaro is targeted for less technically inclined users

Please don’t buy into the marketing slogans on Manjaro’s main website. As the matter of fact, I have a Feedback draft for a complaint about that, but I haven’t gotten around to posting it yet. And part of this protest — which several of the team members support — is why I wrote this…

[Consideration] Is Manjaro the right distribution for you?

Manjaro is NOT suitable for absolute beginners No, it’s not. And we — as the helpful community members of this forum — regularly have to explain this to the newcomers. Or at least, if we get the chance, because it is not exactly unheard of that a vocal newbie throws it out there themselves in a fit of frustration — if not arrogance or entitlement, because there’s a lot of that going round as well. So why is Manjaro not a distribution for absolute beginners? 1. Manjaro is a rolling-release d…

Manjaro is a community-driven distribution with a commercial arm, and like all commercial businesses, this commercial arm seeks to attract as many users as possible, which is why Manjaro is being profiled on its main website as suitable for absolute newcomers to GNU/Linux and for hardcore gamers, while Manjaro is definitely not suitable for that type of users.

@michaldybczak

I’m sure, that most of the users that chose Manjaro, did it because it has access to AUR.

I for one did not, because I didn’t even know what the AUR was until after I had already installed Manjaro and signed up at (the previous iteration of) the forum.

I did however have certain for myself required packages in mind before I installed Manjaro, and most of them were in the repository. One was not, but I built that one from sources, and in the meantime it has also already long been added to the repo.

This is not to say that I don’t have any AUR packages installed. On the contrary, I have quite a few. But they were not a requirement when I installed Manjaro.

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@Teo

ubuntu has probably 10 times more userbase withouth AUR.

Ubuntu does have something similar. I’ve never used Ubuntu, but I’ve been a resident of alt.os.linux.ubuntu on Usenet for over a decade — among many other GNU/Linux and generic UNIX discussion groups — and so I know of its existence. It’s called “the PPAs”, and they are third-party repositories. And there are many of them.