so a common claim I see made is that arch is up to date than Debian but harder to maintain and easier to break. Is there a good sort of middle ground distro between the reliability of Debian and the up-to-date packages of arch?
Manjaro has no purpose, it’s half-assed at being arch and it’s half-assed at being stable.
My experience with Manjaro and Fedora, OpenSUSE etc. contradicts yours. Manjaro has the best balance between stability and rolling out of the box I’ve seen.
“Out of the box” is key here. You can tweak any distro into doing anything you want, given enough time and effort. Manjaro achieves a good balance without the user having to do anything. I remind you that I’ve tested this with non-experienced users and they have no problem using it without any admin skills (or any admin access).
Debian testing is a rolling.
It is not.
AUR isn’t a problem in Manjaro because of lack of support, it’s a problem because packages there are made with Arch and 99.999% of its derivatives in mind, aka latest packages not one week old still-broken packages.
And yet I’ve managed to install dozens of AUR packages just fine. How do you explain that?
Matter of fact, I’ve never run into an AUR package I couldn’t install on Manjaro. What package is giving you trouble?
Manjaro literally accidentally DDoSes the AUR every now and then because again they’re incompetent.
You’re being confused.
AUR had very little bandwidth to begin with and could not cope with the rise in popularity of Arch-based distros. That’s a problem that needs to be solved by the AUR repo first and foremost. Manjaro did what they could when the problem became apparent and has added caching wherever it could. Both Manjaro and Arch devs have worked together to improve this.
How do you explain that?
Easy: You were merely lucky that they didn’t break.
And no it wasn’t just a rise in popularity of Arch it was Manjaro’s PAMAC sending too many requests DDoSing the AUR.
You were merely lucky that they didn’t break.
Lucky… over 5 years and with a hundred AUR packages installed at any given time? I should play the lottery.
I’ve noticed you haven’t given me any example of AUR packages that can’t be installed on Manjaro right now, btw.
it wasn’t just a rise in popularity of Arch it was Manjaro’s PAMAC sending too many requests DDoSing the AUR.
You do realize that was never conlusively established, right? (1) Manjaro was already using search caching when that occured so they had no way to spam AUR, (2) there’s more than one distro using pamac, and (3) anybody can use “pamac” as a user agent and there’s no way to tell if it’s coming from an actual Manjaro install.
My money is on someone actually DDoS’ing AUR and using pamac as a convenient scapegoat.
Last but not least you’re trying to use this to divert from the fact AUR packages work fine on Manjaro.
