Linux sucks, but the intention of the Manjaro distro is good and therefore beaten over the head by the community. They take Arch Linux and hold packages for 2 extra weeks for testing in an attempt to make a rolling release that doesn’t break as often. - And by the evidence in the image: success! (The SSL certificate has nothing to do with their distro: just their website.)

The image is from the manjarno site, a site dedicated to dumping on Manjaro Linux. The site made false claims about Manjaro’s financials and recanted it, but Linux users long after were repeating the misinformation even after lots of corrections. It had become ‘cool’ to dump on Manjaro with propaganda from this site (while making little actual sense).

Manjaro allows use of the AUR, but does so with caution. The things to be concerned about most though also affect people using it in Arch as well (conflicts, keeping things up-to-date, packages aren’t vetted).

Telemetry. -Turning a blind eye to the overwhelmingly used-as-default web browser’s use of it, they pick apart a whole distro for proposing the use of it. Telemetry helps identify and diagnose bugs and performance issues for faster resolutions, as well as helping developers to focus on the common issues users face or the most features used. Telemetry can assist in detecting unusual behavior that may indicate security threats or vulnerabilities. Monitoring system health can prevent potential future failures or downtime. Data can offer insights to trends, demographics, and regional preferences allowing for better marketing. All these benefits are simple mindedly lumped into their commonly used term ‘spyware’ when actual security and privacy are 99% on the user.

Manjarno tells us Arch was more reliable for them. -We don’t share the same experience at all. Every distro launch is met with major problems and Manjaro is relatively new.

Manjaro for the most part has the benefits of Arch while reducing the issues. It provides the most user-friendly / easy to use / get started version of Arch I’m aware of. It’s live disk was one of 4 live disks I tried and was the best of them and allowed me to make repairs easier as a new user. Some of the rare people that openly use it have stated they’ve been using it fine for years (take that with a grain of salt as the types evangelizing Linux aren’t particularly honest about issues).

Manjaro is a victim of the Linux community they serve.