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Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation by e3bc54b2 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:05AM (#33730860)
They had multiple issues with opsec in the past. Something that when repeats, makes people skittish. Fool me once and al..
Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation by hutzlibu on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:11AM (#33730919)
I am not aware of critical issues, but there was indeed a time of confusion, when the dev leadership changed. So sources please for current flaws?
Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation by stryan on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:48AM (#33733378)
This Github repo has the most common issues I've heard of: https://github.com/arindas/manjarno .

Big ones are: shadiness with funding, letting their SSL certs expire 4 times, and the fact that their idea of stable isn't additional testing, but just letting the packages sit for a week.

There was also a recent kerfluffle not covered there where they shipped a broken kernel to Apple Sillicon users without contacting the Asahi devs: https://twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/1576356115746459648

Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation by hutzlibu on Thursday November 24, 2022 @03:29PM (#33735875)
Well, the funding issue I find to be quite trivial and of no big concern to me, but the repo issues are indeed something that has bothered me at times, where I ended up modifying repos to get the most up to date ones.

The recommendation from the repo, EndeavourOS sounds interesting, though.

Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation by E39M5S62 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:48AM (#33733382)
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4inrut/manjaros_ssl_...

The link for the post is dead, but they've let their SSL cert expire multiple times. While it happened a few years ago, I find that a hard thing to come back from.

Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation by seized on Thursday November 24, 2022 @12:01PM (#33733531)
I think the most recent incident was a few months ago...
Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation by E39M5S62 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @02:48PM (#33735460)
Good lord.
Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation by oynqr on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:02AM (#33732826)
It literally took them two months to push the critical expat update on aarch64.