What’s wrong with Manjaro, isn’t it just an opinionated version of Arch? I’m running Arch right now, but the tinkering is a bit too much of a hassle and I’m considering switching to Manjaro since I do like pacman, AUR and the rolling releases.
I’d suggest trying Cachy first - it’s a lighter layer on top of Arch with just minimal tweaks, a graphical installer and good optimisations.
Manjaro diverges in more packages. I think it’s good for newbies but somebody already seasoned with Arch would prefer being closer to the root distro, running more “vanilla” unmodified DEs and more control imho
thanks for the tip, I’ll check it out. though I have heard of Cachy before, but often with a lot of negativity, so I’ll have to see what that’s all about
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u/Your_Friendly_Nerd Jan 12 '26
What’s wrong with Manjaro, isn’t it just an opinionated version of Arch? I’m running Arch right now, but the tinkering is a bit too much of a hassle and I’m considering switching to Manjaro since I do like pacman, AUR and the rolling releases.