• LurkingLuddite@piefed.socialEnglish
      39·
      9 days ago

      Not just with their web hosting. I’ve had so many updates break random crap it’s not even funny. Recently, a random update I did not approve suddenly had kwallet not working. A core piece of a DE they provide a bundled version for. I had to start kwalletd myself every time I wanted to use it.

      It didn’t start that way on the fresh install. I didn’t do anything myself except reboot. Then suddenly my scripts that nab from the keystore are failing and asking me for passwords and what a mess.

      That’s just a more recent example. I remember having quite a few random issues on update in the past, though the only other one I explicitly remember is the DE suddenly failing to start. Like, at all. Luckily I had a recent timeshift backup saved elsewhere, restored, and ignored the update notifications for a long while…

        • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
          20·
          9 days ago

          The one thing manjaro had going for it was it was easy install arch. Now we have endeavor, garuda, cachy, and several other easy install arch. Including archinstall. Who all follow vanilla arch much closer, not introducing major breaking changes. There’s literally no good reason to still use manjaro.

          That said the servo aur is currently broken under catchy. Unable to update for the last couple of weeks. But that’s been my only hiccup. And a negligible one at that.

        • eli@lemmy.world
          7·
          9 days ago

          I tried it out like 5 years ago. A month after using it a random update broke the DE.

          Right then and there I wrote off the whole distro and haven’t touched it since.

          I don’t know why people are even using it all these years later.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    37·
    8 days ago

    Let’s Encrypt’s free and automatic certificate management has been around since November 16th, 2015, by the way.

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      Let’s Encrypt has also started offering 7 day certs for people who are confident that they spent more than 5 minutes to setup their cert management lol.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        You don’t own the root certificate even when you aren’t using Let’s Encrypt, unless you self sign or want to become a certificate authority. Am I missing something? Is there some controversy about Let’s Encrypt I’m unaware of?

        • slowcakes@programming.dev
          1·
          7 days ago

          I just mean they own it, I know that you can’t decrypt encrypted messages with root certificate, but you can abuse it in the case of being man in the middle. Of course I don’t think that let’s encrypt are doing that, but there other entities that would really enjoy having that toolset for hundred of millions of services that rely on let’s encrypt.

          And if you look at the ones who sponsor Lets encrypt, I don’t think that any of them would bat an eye (except for EFF) if for instance the pedophile chief decided that they need to change leadership. Or hey, we NSA also have access to the credentials to the root certificate.

          Something being free is not always the best option, when it comes to security. And it’s not impossible that such a large entity can become compromised through pressure, especially when they live on support from private organizations, who have time and time again, shown that they are not trust worthy and would choose to do unethical thing, if that benefits them.

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            7 days ago

            I’m a little confused why you view this as an issue because in the alternative, manually installing certificates instead of using Let’s Encrypt’s tool, you still wouldn’t own the root certificate.

  • sonofearth@lemmy.world
    24·
    9 days ago

    Why don’t people just use Arch directly instead of using derivatives? Well… I can understand using something like CachyOS as it has a different kernel with optimisations but Manjaro feels very irrelevant. If you just want Arch Linux with simple installation, just use the archinstall script. Regardless of which derivative you use, Arch based distros are going to be heavy maintenance than something like Bazzite, Mint or Ubuntu.

    • herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml
      18·
      9 days ago

      I used Manjaro for a few years before switching to Arch. Manjaro finds a nice sweespot for “Arch but also nice”. Furthermore, Arch has gotten much more user friendly in the last 5 years or so. Back in late 2010s, Manjaro was adding a lot of value on top of Arch.

      What really bothered me about Manjaro was the “forum cops” they employ, who are super aggressive to newcomers and unhelpful. It was not a nice experience to seek help. Say what you will about Arch people, they are at least helpful.

      I finally switched to Arch when I got my new machine. I recommend the same.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        8 days ago

        Just to add to the 2010s bit, I tried Arch in like… 2015 I think it would’ve been. I followed the wiki to the letter. It was not my first Linux install, I’d been experimenting with a lot of distros for five years by then. I could not get it to work. To be fair, I still haven’t tried Arch in 2026, I use CachyOS, but I think back then Manjaro was really the only thing providing that type of experience. Everyone holds the Arch wiki on a pedestal because it’s so useful, but the install guide and state of Arch back in 2015 simply wasn’t what it is today. I haven’t ever used Manjaro so I can’t really speak for it, but that’s just sort of my guess as someone who had difficulty with Arch from that era. Luckily we have CachyOS, EndeavorOS, and, presumably, a better install process on vanilla Arch now.

    • someonesmall@lemmy.ml
      1·
      8 days ago

      Back in 2015 for gaming PC: Steam and Nvidia driver updates via package manager, Xfce (used it before on multiple laptops), promise to be more stable than vanilla arch.