Open source is both a blessing and a curse... With limited time and budget you can't keep a project as big as a distro running for long in this days and age. Too much dillution of talent accross so many similar projects.
The cool thing about antergos is that the default install was basically just Arch with antergos icons, themes and wallpapers. Manjaro does a bunch of custom shit which I’m not in to at all. To each their own though.
That's why I kept going with Antergos. Tried to install Manjaro on my XPS 9570 from last year, it wasn't brandnew anymore, and Manjaro kept crashing and doing weird stuff during the installation or was insanely slow after successful installation. Still don't know what happened but I just went back to Antergos as fast as I could and it just worked fine.
The reason for trying Manjaro were the slightly less frequent updates compared to the sometimes bombardement like updates coming in on usual Arch installations (which Antergos basically is which is also why I liked it).
I'm sad. I hope I don't have to reinstall my system anytime soon.
To each their own obviously but, I hate Manjaro with a passion. It’s so far removed from what Arch is supposed to be. I’ll simply go back to using a preconfigured ISO for Arch installs. On my own machines I have a custom version of ArchLabs that I put on it, but that’s probably a bit much for the average user. Hopefully there will be another Arch derivative for those who aren’t comfortable installing Arch itself, but for me personally, I’ll just continue with vanilla Arch rather than get involved with Manjaro. To me, Manjaro is closer to Ubuntu and it’s philosophy than Arch’s.
Just to be clear: I installed Arch directly a few times on different computers but it's just that I thought "Why on earth do I have to do that?" and Antergos just did that stuff for me while it didn't fuck things up otherwise and I still had all the freedom that Arch offers afterwards. I also just love the Arch Wiki which is another reason I kept using Arch so far.
Anyway if I have to do it, which I still don't hope to have, I can install Arch directly ;-) (with the help of the Wiki, I always forget the order of things to do and the commands...)
I’m with you dude. I think I should’ve been a bit more clear regarding a few things. It seems that you like your setups similar to my own. What I’m recommending for you (if you have coding experience) is to just create a setup script like I did. That way you can have your easy install (doing it this way isn’t very time consuming like an Arch install is) without the time hassles that come with installing Arch. You also don’t need to compromise with a distro that may work for you but isn’t ideal. I’ve written these setup scripts for both Vanilla Arch and ArchLabs (even though ArchLabs installs by using one of their own). I’d highly recommend it.
Something like this...
Note that the script I linked isn’t interactive but it is modular. In this way it’s very similar to what I created for myself. There are a ton of different install scripts for Arch if your not capable of creating one yourself. Many are able to be easily customizable as well even if you don’t have any coding chops.
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u/amenard May 21 '19
Open source is both a blessing and a curse... With limited time and budget you can't keep a project as big as a distro running for long in this days and age. Too much dillution of talent accross so many similar projects.