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[–] DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

mint or manjaro are better anyways

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But how is a new person supposed to know that? Ubuntu is still at the top of many charts. And has years of previous positive reviews.

i feel like anyone switching os should look a bit into what they entail and then its our responsibility to tell people what is better

[–] kronarbob@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Mint is far better, I usually recommand it. But Ubuntu is still more popular.

I didn't use Manjaro in many years, so I can't judge it. The biggest problem I see with Manjaro is that it has access to AUR.

Manjaro has its own repos, and they take more time to release packages than Arch, which can be a good thing stability wise. But if you have applications from AUR installed then you might have conflicts with the dependencies needed and the dependencies used by the system.

As I said, I didn't use Manjaro in a while, so I don't know if it still a problem. If it is, then it's a shame that the biggest advantage of Arch, the AUR, become that much a risk for the system.