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Isn't Manjaro the distro that previously planned to drop LibreOffice from its installation and include the proprietary word processor FreeOffice instead? [0]

I guess my point is, this is kinda par for the course.

[0] https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-freeoffice-manjaro-linux/

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Both Manjaro and its parent Arch Linux aren't distros oriented to pure FOSS. The community repository contains a mix of open and closed source applications. And there's AUR to build your own custom packages, which most of them are just a PKGBUILD file.

The PKGBUILD downloads the source, patches it (if required) and compiles it to create the desired package. If the package is closed source it just downloads the binaries and repackages the result as a Pacman package.

So they can offer both open and closed source editor suites and you're free to install whatever you want. I've tried several office suites and FreeOffice is quite faster than LibreOffice actually. I've also tried one suite which was an electron app (OnlyOffice) and LibreOffice felt faster than a plane compared to it.

To be clear, that was sort of my point. This is being viewed as a loss to FOSS, but I think Manjaro was never a FOSS purist from an ideological standpoint to begin with.

Pretty much, nothing of value was lost today. It would be more surprising if Fedora started to bundle not legally available applications [0] or Debian added the nvidia or amdgpu-pro drivers by default.

[0] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/setup_rpmfus...

I thought your point was that Manjaro isn't afraid to try to introduce commercial software into the default installs...

(The FreeOffice version included was essentially feature-limited shareware, also requiring registration after 30 days)

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