I want to say thank you to all the developers and everyone involved in the Manjaro distribution. You know your stuff and you’re doing a great job. I’ve never seen a more stable distribution, even though I’ve tried many others. Yesterday, for the first time in 227 days of use, something broke on my computer. the system, and it was just browser icons, they just disappeared after the browser update, but I wrote about it on the forum, and a few hours later, another browser update came out and fixed the error, I don’t know if the developers read my bug report or if it just happened, but guys, 227 days without any system crashes, even minor ones, I haven’t seen that anywhere else, not in any stable distribution, Manjaro is the best distribution with responsible and knowledgeable developers, thank you! You’re the best!
My experience with Manjaro is also very smooth, not a single system breakage yet…
Well done on this to both Manjaro and Arch devs, and I hope things continue this way going forward after all management issues get resolved.
Aye. I have been using Manjaro since 2018. It crashed only once due to SSD damage in the past 8 years.
I have been using it in my equips for many years, I think my main pc has been running it with out issues for about 3 incarnations.
That’s over six years in three different hardware configurations (at least cpu and motherboard changes), the same install, it’s great!
Now that Manjaro default is btrfs, it is very easy to be immune to these types of failures too. The if not obvious caveat, is you need a spare equivalent or bigger size drive. But it really is basically two commands to build in redundancy. (Which you can perform on a live system.)
A nice bonus is you practically double the read performance. (When using similar devices.)
Well it hasn’t all been plain sailing. Eg 3 years ago there was a problem if you were an Xfce user as I was then. And the introduction of .pacnew files caused me some confusion at first. And the odd AUR package consistently breaks with an update, one of them permanently now, it would seem, although I’ve replaced it using Flatpak (reluctantly), where it works fine. Other than that things have been pretty stable. I’ve always liked the look and feel of Manjaro, despite all of the disparaging criticisms I’ve seen about it on Youtube, such as this one.
However if I’ve got it right, one of the chief members of Manjaro’s development team has quit, and recently there have been rumblings in here and elsewhere whether Manjaro has a future, especially as there was a big delay to updates in January when the rumours were spreading. I have an alternative distro to ‘flee to’, should things go seriously awry with Manjaro, but I’ll cross that bridge if it comes to it.
Many of the first batch of developers have quit over the years, and others have joined up in their place. This happens with all distributions.
Having gone from Slackware → Arch → Manjaro, I’ve been really satisfied with it. Arch took way too much of time fixing, fiddling and tweaking. To be fair, it was around the time Arch adopted systemd and it caused havoc on my system. I’ve also looked at backup distros last week and tried Void and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, but Manjaro is still one of the most solid distros in my opinion.
Nor can I, and I’ve been a Linux user since 2000.
I want to thank the entire Manjaro Team from the bottom of my heart. Your hard work has made my Linux experience easier and more enjoyable than I ever thought possible.
Like many beginners, my Linux journey started with Ubuntu, after a friend recommended I give Linux a try. Several weeks later, he mentioned another distro called Manjaro. He said it was a bit more advanced than Ubuntu but still a good option for newcomers. I stuck with Ubuntu for a few more months, constantly messing things up, trying to fix them, or having to reinstall the whole OS.
Then I remembered what my friend had said about Manjaro, so I tried the live session just to see what it was like. It blew my mind — it offered much more freedom, and I was able to remove Snaps in just a couple of minutes (something I really hated about Ubuntu). The next day, I switched to Manjaro 100%, and five years later, I’m happier than ever.
Of course, I’ve messed things up many times over the years — running into update errors or system crashes — but the community has always come to the rescue. I also want to thank them for their help and for teaching me to be more careful.
I can’t post in the other thread about the current issues, so I hope you can read this here:
I just wanted you to know how much we value your hard work. My sincere hope is that you guys can reach a constructive agreement soon, so Manjaro can continue thriving and moving forward stronger than ever.
Thank you again, and I wish the whole team all the best.
Hear, here! I am coming up on nine years using Manjaro for everything I do on computers. I, too, am awestruck that I have been able to learn so much and do so much using this beautiful OS that others have clearly (and generously) worked so hard on. I feel guilty that I have so little to contribute in return, but I am old and the time and resources I have are spread very thin. I have invested a lot of what little I have into computers, software and peripherals over many years, and I have been able to keep benefiting from all that using virtual machines running on Manjaro KDE (including every version of Windows 2000 Pro, XP Pro, 10 Pro and 11 Pro (
)). I’ve tried to learn about Linux and other distros in general using VMs, too. So I was particularly distressed to read about the possibility of Manjaro not being maintained in perpetuity. It really scares me, and just because I have tried to be proactive in case of force majeure I have tried to find a viable alternative and there is none. That includes having learned to install and maintain Arch with KDE and all the apps I run on Manjaro. Talk about a rabbit hole - phew! It’s my opinion we all suffer from “Future Shock” in this chaotic and increasingly dystropic world. There are really good and amazingly talented and hard-working people in this Manjaro community and I will forever be in all your debt.
There was a delay on updating January’s stable branch and a thread about it, where it was mentioned about the turmoil behind the scenes at Manjaro, and developers quitting which I had no idea about at the time. Since the update the thread seems to have disappeared so can’t remember the full detail, but suffice it to say it was worrying. This should shed more light on what’s happening.
As far as Arch based distros are concerned I’d say Endeavouros is as good. I’ve only used it since December, but so far it’s been very reliable with updates coming through most days. It’s minimal when it’s installed, eg it comes without a GUI software centre/manager, but you can add one, as well as other features that come ready-installed with Manjaro.