Probably no need for a reinstall, for that? 
Even that’s not really necessary — or at least, if it’s the same computer. Just install the correct firmware modules, rebuild the initramfs and run update-grub, and you’re done. 
I am very relieved that it is now moving forward again and I sincerely wish all the involved parties all the best.
To be honest even if this didn’t concern me or our company I am very interested in Manjaro and I am convinced that Manjaro has the potential to be the perfect distro for german local authorities, healthcare, transport agencies Municipalities etc. I want to see manjaro succeed and I am sure with the right business connections to get a foot into the door Manjaro would be the distro of choice for german businesses. It already has the potential.
My brother build new PC, so he gifted me this one. Everything was working fine, but just in case I reinstalled OS. After few months xD
Im so happy that Philip finally responsed. I hope they can work it out and i would love to see Philip still with a lead status, but maybe just with decreased power.
Since he said this:
This made me think there is maybe some misunderstanding/beef in the past and he still believe somehow in the project. I think its important that both sides put their card’s on the table to meet somewhere in the middle.
Fixed standpoints could hurt both parties when the focus is to have a good outcome, both parties should be ready to trade their goals to meet somewhere in the middle.
And hopefully Philip change is mind, about financing the project.
Someone in recent days thanked everyone for Manjaro being so “boring” – probably one of the best accolades any Linux distribution could get.
I mean, to be honest I kinda get this and side with them. Dare I say that here 
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They aren’t Manjaro, and never supported Manjaro. Just because Manjaro made it that you can install stuff from their repro doesn’t mean they need to support it. The Manjaro forums would be the place to go imho.
Over the years they’ve had quite some Manjaro people come over, often with less knowledge than they generally expect you to have (making it harder to help, or requiring more explaining) due to Manjaro being easier to start with (and Arch purposefully not made for starters), reporting problems that turn out to be Manjaro specific. I guess that combined with (I say this with love) the average Arch users being a rather typical autistic, opinionated nerd who’s not naturally great at socialising…
I mean, if you use something in an unsupported way, you generally loose support. That kinda counts anywhere. At best you get best effort type support, and I guess Arch people aren’t very keen on making that effort for non-Arch users. I mean, fair I guess.
But if I’m honest, I tend to get along well with Arch users, even if they knów I use Manjaro. Outside of some bad jokes, we’re generally good. But I also need little support. So maybe I just have easy talking. Or maybe I’ve got too used to hearing “you’re not on an supported OS” as answer from commercial support too much to mind. An issue any Linux user will face (and even more on distro’s not Debian/Red Hat related).
We cherish “upstream” as much as any other Arch-based distribution. Some members of the Arch forum fellowship may seem callous, even obtuse, at times – this is not necessarily a reflection of Arch (proper), but of the world we live in – people are people.
I’m often amused by those who like to flaunt “I use Arch, BTW”… to which, I might often respond with “I use [insert list of OS here] and BSD, BTW”.
That usually creates a lull in conversation.
Don’t be too worried. In spite of the current drama, the only danger you face is if the person who is not was not communicating gets sick or is in some other way incapacitated.
The whole point of this exercise is to ensure that can never happen.
So hold on, enjoy the drama, and more importantly enjoy using, arguably, the best Linux based OS around.
Hello my dear Manjaro friends,
I had to read a lot and couldn’t login until changing my mail back and forth.
First of all I want to deeply thank the whole Manjaro team for making the greatest OS to date to me. I started using it 2018 and came from LMDE after a plain arch install failed several times 
I learned more from this OS than every other and I started with Mandrake in '99 but couldn’t get the essence at that time.
I returned to Knoppix the early 2000s with an old laptop with no HDD, but a floppy disk as the only persistence option while booting from a live cdrom.
Later came Suse ~2004 and nothing really caught me.
I started working with Linux servers professionally and slipped into administration step for step and really started to love Debian (NOT the desktop)
Around 2012 I started to use Mint (with Ubuntu base) and shortly after discovered LMDE,
it was already a game changer compared to regular Mint, gnome2/mate was was great and the Ubuntu layer gone completely. It taught me a lot more than regular Mint could do.
And then after a conversation at some ccc event I came across Manjaro…
It changed everything for me and my knowledge would build up way better as I would ever have expected by just using Linux just for some tasks, like Mint was.
The inherent desire to understand how things work just got amplified and I couldn’t stop ever since.
I never had any serious problems unless I caused it myself, mostly by ignorance (who said .pacnew?) and @Aragorn helped quite a lot with his comments all over the forum, specifically regarding this important topic
So yeah here I am, I’m staying* regardless which direction this goes. And if I could sign, I would in an instant.
*well I have to admit, that I’m running the Cachyos kernel with BORE and other optimizations for quite a while and I would love to see the project adapting these improvements as well.
I’m also ready to support the project, maybe as “Fördermitglied” or full member if there will be an E.V.
And one last thing, if the decision goes to fork, please keep ‘#1abb9b’
I love this color and modified almost everything regarding terminal and gui to use it, PLEASE
and to my fellow Germans in the project, Vielen lieben Dank für alles, was natürlich für alle gilt <3
Given Philip’s very positive reply earlier tonight, it would appear that we’re not going to be forking the distribution — luckily, because that would have been a lot of work, and it would have been very bad for the community.
We will therefore now be moving forward with the creation of the e.V., and then seek to restructure everything so that Manjaro’s old problems can be avoided from now on, and that both the Manjaro distribution and the Manjaro GmbH company will benefit from this new collaboration.
As for the color, you might be interested in the two new Manjaro wallpapers I’ve recently created. 
Well I took it from one of the first i3 versions released and I’m used to it now
and yeah, it’s pretty close, the distro might have been community, I’m unsure if there was ever an official i3 image
2022 also indicates a later date as the 2018 hex code
the latter also goes better off the tongue 
Hi,
I hope it’s ok to put it here but I think it would be important to keep the community discussion open.
There might be more people want to support that whole ‘make it better’ effort and these might not get heard without an ongoing public discussion.
I would also argue, that including the previous history is required to help build a relevant opinion.
Much love for the project but this feels like an unnecessary cutoff from the discussion, thank you for considering this.
EDIT
sorry this did overlap with the response via dm
Sorry, you edited your post since my last comment.
i3 was (and is) a Community edition.
It’s still available, but the ISO might be generally behind the official images. Nonetheless, once installed and synced via the official repos, it remains on par with other editions from an update perspective.
Reposting publicly here to clear up various rumors going around regarding the current state of the project.