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For those who want to preemptively block these requests, the domain is metrics-api.manjaro.org. Taken from their repository: https://github.com/manjaro/mdd

Makes me a little sad, I'm super comfortable with my current Manjaro Cinnamon setup. This ain't a big enough issue to migrate, at least not yet... but I'll definitely keep an eye out for more shenanigans and jump distro if it ever becomes too much.

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That's the kind of thing you do with spy- or ad-ware. What does Manjaro offer over plain Arch that is "super comfortable"?

I meant it more in the sense that I got everything running the way I want to and I don’t want to go through the trouble of setting everything up again just yet: fixes for weird issues specific to my laptop; custom scripts to switch between DNS-over-HTTPS and local DNS; my overly complicated integration with my password manager; etc

It’s taken me a while to tweak the environment to my liking, and right now my priorities are elsewhere; I don’t want to have to distro hop and do all of this yet again.

I would think Arch is close enough to Manjaro that it wouldn't be too tricky to migrate. You would probably get most of the way there by simply copying home and etc and then reinstalling the all of the installed packages.

It's not that hard to convert a manjaro install into plain old Arch. Did it a couple of times.

Do you have a link to a good guide? I still have references to Manjaro all over the place.

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