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> As said before, in this tutorial we will be using Manjaro due to it:

> * containing a fully configured system (yes bloat, idc its a beginners tutorial)

So is it for beginners or power users? Or can that be the same person? Choice of Manjaro is also curious, considering its history.

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> So is it for beginners or power users? Or can that be the same person?

Reasonable and good question. I tend to see that as orthogonal (but with some overlap) as "power user" is more of a mindset to me.

I see it as "power user" meaning "a power user of Windows."

You can drop in replace Manjaro with EndeavourOS to achieve Arch on easy mode these days.

Arch has easy mode built in¹ these days.

1: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall

I must've used this a dozen times in the last few months helping friends. It never fails to amaze me. Has options like a btrfs layout with sane defaults, choice of DE and Tiling, etc.

I'm writing this from an installation I made today using it.

it's for power users of proprietary OSes who are beginners to Linux

> considering its history

Can you elaborate?

I don't know everything, but I do know they've let their HTTPS cert expire a few times [1], and they apparently delay package updates from upstream for like 1wk for "stability" reasons... which doesn't really add any stability, and just slows down releases.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/wr2dps/manjaro_let_t...

The package delays also apply to security updates btw. There's no procedure to get them in faster.

Ironically, on mobile Manjaro has shipped unstable and WIP patches, leading to issues and annoyed maintainers [0]

0. https://dont-ship.it/

It's amateur hour over at Manjaro. They've pushed breaking updates, insecure settings, etc. Their infrastructure is poor, as well.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230708070056/https://manjarno.... (original domain expired)

https://github.com/arindas/manjarno

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