Happy Manjaro user here. "Mommy knows best" approach greatly helps to get onboard with Linux without shooting yourself in the foot.
If I would be offered to start my journey with Arch, I just wouldn't begin this transition to begin with.
And now, I can enjoy a lot of benefits of Arch, be it rolling release, independence, AUR (carefully though), from the comfort of a nice and easy to understand system designed with regular user in mind.
I'd argue that Manjaro just doesn't implement similar procedures with AUR because it's insanely labor-intensive, all while repos are doing great.
As per the delay - the packages that cause troubles within this 2-week window are not updated until they're fixed, that's why this period exists in the first place.
I've heard a lot of negative experiences around Manjaro, but most commonly they refer to an experience that has been long ago. As a 1,5-year Linux enjoyer who started with Manjaro and keeps to it for the desktop (though I played around with Arch, Endeavour, and currently have Debian on my laptop), I had no serious issues with the distro - except one time Pamac updated the kernel while I turned off PC. For that, yeah, some guardrails wouldn't hurt.
Always had - they even have names!
But the numbering is fairly arbitrary, as you can guess, and number normally changes with bigger updates.
And forcing the PlayStation Plus subscription.
Pretty sure it's actually gonna happen
At least premium.
Yeah, dracut and some small differences here and there just make it more complicated to no gain, and I just don't comprehend why would someone who installs Endeavour wouldn't just install Arch and not depend on some random distribution that does little beyond easy set up (which has recently been shown as problematic when Endeavour team dropped ARM support).
Arch is alright btw. It has its audience, and it serves them well. Besides, it's an independent, but highly popular distro, which I value. It's snappy, configurable, well-documented, and no-fuss.
Besides, it would be weird to use Manjaro and hate its upstream. Though Mint people can experience such vibes...
Kinda hated, but not as much as Manjaro.
Manjaro guy's perspective - nicer than Endeavour, at least there is some functionality that is actually useful and justifies it being a separate distro.
Normally, Arch folks hate Chaotic-AUR as part of Garuda, the bloat™, and the fact it's heavily designed with hypergaming styling, which is not only not pleasing for many, but adds extra hurdles on the way to ricing.
Same
But Manjaro is king
Exactly! That is my neverending conundrum with people going for Endeavour.
Like, why not Arch at this point?
Thanks for your voice!
As an outside reader (and Manjaro fan), this absolutely came off as as opinion that doesn't call for arguments.
You did a great job sharing your experience. Heavy AUR users should definitely NOT use Manjaro - even Manjaro devs warn against it.
Hope mainline Arch serves you well!