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  • Aganim@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLOL
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    1 month ago

    Debian was a horrible choice actually, my laptop’s WiFi card didn’t have a kernel driver available at the time. Tracking down the correct one was an interesting journey by itself, getting it compiled and loaded was another. In my 20 years of Linux experience I’ve compiled my fair share of drivers from source, but this thing was a complete disaster and simply refused to work.

    I even tried Ubuntu (still feel dirty about that one): also no support out of the box.

    So I needed a rolling release, as kernel support would drop fairly soon. Being downstream from Arch I reckoned any major issues will be worked out in Manjaro before hitting their release.

    So far I’m actually quite happy with it, my only gripe is the stability of Pamac. The frontend tends to hang during updates from time to time or require a manual database update to show available updates again.

    And of course the issue with packages not building anymore, until you clear the build cache. The (bi-) weekly reboots because of kernel updates are annoying, but something I can live with.


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    Meanwhile:

    My W11 Pro PC: I’ll wait installing my monthly updates until you give me the okay. And I’ll wait for the reboot until you say so.

    My Manjaro laptop: sorry, I couldn’t build package X. Go f*ck yourself while I provide you with no information on how to fix this.

    *A manual build cache clear later*: all good! But now perform our weekly reboot.

    It’s ironic, but these days Windows updates actually give me less issues AND require less reboots than Manjaro. 😞






  • Can you enlighten me how that would work, as that makes no sense to me from a technical standpoint?

    I fail to see how Reddit would be able to know how you are communicating with a random recursive resolver on the internet. Or are you running your own recursor and trying to use DoH to access their authoritative servers?

    Edit: I hope I don’t come across as harsh, it’s meant as a genuine question and not to doubt your story. 🙂