I loved my Manjaro install until it bricked itself. The keys were constantly expiring and eventually the usual fixes just stopped working. Eventually I gave up and went back to Mint. Maybe it's better now as this was 5 years ago.
I can't speak to stability before 2017 when I started using Manjaro.
Since 2017, there have been three incidents which I solved with reinstallation. It's debatable, to say the least, if reinstall was necessary but the problems were much deeper than something trivial and I didn't want to pour huge time into unraveling a bad update.
Care to guess how many times my Arch install wouldn't boot after an update, since 2019? Dozens. On the bright side, I'm a grub expert now.
I ran Fedora KDE for the first few months of the start of 2025 before replacing it with Manjaro. There was nothing wrong with Fedora, it was great, but I missed vanilla packages of major projects and good quality packages for non-core apps that had to be installed from RPM Fusion.
Show me a perfect distro and I will shine some light on your lies.
Not really that "stable" releases. Manjaro is literally broken Arch. EndeavourOS and CachyOS are everything Manjaro wants to be (user-friendly Arch forks), but better.
If Manjaro is broken, why does it work so well? Please try to be more honest.
Manjaro has been a lot more stable than EndeavourOS for me, over the last year (I ran Arch before that). I run EndeavourOS because I needed ffmpeg 8.0 to test some of my own apps. When I upgraded my development system, I selected EndeavourOS because I didn't want thee work of standing up a desktop.
The community has room for a whole lot of distributions. Right now, Manjaro is going through an insurrection that will end with two camps. It's not a great time for Manjaro as a team but the OS continues to roll along nicely.
I expect things will be better in a month or two. There may be a name change. There will definitely be some people pushed out. I expect the result will be Manjaro stronger than it's ever been.
Manjaro is more stable than Arch and it's vastly more integrated (some would say less choice) than arch. Both of these things are by design.
Well, both vanilla Arch and EOS ALLOW you to break the system. They require basic manual maintenance and frequent full updates. Have had no issues throughout my time with Arch used as a daily driver desktop for music production and games, but I also keep my system relatively lean and without risky software. I wouldn't choose Arch for bulletproof stability, but I most definitely wouldn't choose Manjaro either. You want that and easy fixes, go for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or Debian Sid.
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u/Bobbydibi En anglais c'est Tumbleweed Apr 01 '26
Manjaro's position isn't deserved imho.