Holy shit was that a long read. Incredibly in depth though and very interesting

Nah Kubuntu is fine. Look up the reasons people don’t like cononical to see if you personally care (I do but I’m weird) but sincerly kubuntu is chill.

If you’re new I can’t fully reccomend endeavor. Well made, great distro, but built for people who are ok with managing their system manually. If that’s your vibe though great choice. Want something that looks like Kubuntu, is easier to manage, not cononical, with a rolling release model? OpenSuse tumbleweed with KDE plasma is chill.

Still though nothing wrong with sticking to Kubuntu.

now switching to Gentoo on the other hand will make you 2x hotter

Their devs constantly make mistakes that harm the ecosystem, they suggest poor practices, and are generally incompetent.

They ddosed the aur twice the second time the exact same way as the first. No solution was put into place to fix the root cause and it caused a major issue. They didn’t learn.

The lead arm Dev pushed an update to Asahi (trusted, due to their position) that broke the system for half of the users (those using xorg) showing the dev didn’t test it on xorg at all. The problem? They upped a version for a dependency which had nothing to do with their code. The issue was documented. This dev, their lead arm dev, didn’t check the docs before upoing the version. Didn’t test at all either. This is a lead dev. That’s their standard

Before asahi was released they claimed manjaro worked on the m1 macbooks with a marketing page and all shipping a random dev version of the Asahi kernal known to not even boot. This was lucky as if it could, the build had a chance to break the computer. What did they do this? Who knows.

They forgot to update their SSL certs 5 times telling people to change their system clocks the first time. You can automate SSL cert renewal by the way. It’s easy and takes at max twenty minutes if it’s not cooperating and you’ll never have to worry again. This shows, again, they’re not competant and don’t learn from their mistakes.

They suggested, and strongly defended, using sudo pacman -Syyu which forces a database refresh for every install. This is not likely ever needed unless something fucks up bad and puts unnecessary stress on the repos.

A lot more too but I’m sleepy. I rarely say a distro is a bad choice but manjaro is the strongest exception for me. You can’t trust their devs. Of course the entire AUR and update issue but that’s hit or miss on whether it effects you

If you want a semi rolling release like manjaro I’d suggest OpenSuse tumbleweed. Same release idea but with consistantly competant devs.

Manjaro is a wet fart. I don’t want them sitting in my lap man