Manjaro nowadays has become a hassle. It used to be really solid around 5-6 years ago. I had it for 3+ years. Then it started breaking a lot. I switched to EndeavourOS 1.5 years ago, been solid since. The jre/jdk issue was pretty painless to deal with as well.
The jre/jdk issue was pretty painless to deal with as well.
What’s driving me away is that I have to deal with it at all. The command just fails and leaves you to google the solution. That’s annoying and unnecessary.
I know now that Manjaro isn’t the OS for me if I’m not willing to do that.
Fair enough. IDK how Manjaro dealt with it. But for me (on EndeavourOS), pacman just asked if I wanted to replace jre-headless with jre or not. I said yes, and that was it. Same should be the case for people with jdk. But it’s fair that you feel annoyed. Note, though, issues like this will be more common for non-rolling distros when you try to move between major releases.
Manjaro nowadays has become a hassle. It used to be really solid around 5-6 years ago. I had it for 3+ years. Then it started breaking a lot. I switched to EndeavourOS 1.5 years ago, been solid since. The jre/jdk issue was pretty painless to deal with as well.
What’s driving me away is that I have to deal with it at all. The command just fails and leaves you to google the solution. That’s annoying and unnecessary.
I know now that Manjaro isn’t the OS for me if I’m not willing to do that.
Fair enough. IDK how Manjaro dealt with it. But for me (on EndeavourOS), pacman just asked if I wanted to replace jre-headless with jre or not. I said yes, and that was it. Same should be the case for people with jdk. But it’s fair that you feel annoyed. Note, though, issues like this will be more common for non-rolling distros when you try to move between major releases.
If you like to tinker but still have some consistency, I’d suggest gentoo. It’s been really solid for the last 16 years for me.