As containers are isolated - it’s mostly a security issue for the container itself. It may become an issue, though, if the container is allowed to freely interact with filesystem, for example.

Apps like Flatseal allow you to easily control such variables using a GUI instead of tinkering in the terminal.

Flashing Lenovo A6000 failed when I did it about a year ago.

Bricked the phone, didn’t manage to fix it even with Qualcomm tools.

Wasn’t worth pursuing further to me back then. Would love to know if someone succeeded!

Solved for larger laptops.

Macbooks are significantly slimmer, and have way less internal space that could be used to make a combined cooling system that would be passive most of the time.

Installing a fan negatively impacts the passive cooling ability (at the absolute least by taking space that could be occupied by a bigger radiator and by obstructing the airflow), so it’s always a tradeoff.

Apple wanted to make it passively cooled, and it wouldn’t be possible at decent loads if a fan would be installed alongside passive cooler.

Not necessarily. I own a passively cooled x86 laptop that runs just fine without throttling - granted, it’s based on Celeron series CPU, but when we talk of ARM laptops, we normally don’t talk powerful machines - Macs are rather an exception.

Mine too

Looks like Mistral was trained more on proven academic data and less on Facebook posts. This does make it a bit less variable in answers, but at least it says very little bullremoved.

Windows -> Manjaro.

Never looked back. Debian works on a laptop, amazing too!

Yes, kernel level access is what makes it a much bigger deal.

Kaspersky actually has a good track record of NOT being anything malicious (Except for old times when it seemed to flag pirate software quite often).

However, if the tool is closed-source, this is naturally against Linux ethos and is generally something to avoid, given extensive permissions.

I don’t know how many time it should be said.

If you want to go Linux, DO NOT GO FOR UBUNTU

It was a solid choice 10 years ago, but now it’s a piece of headache.

Go Manjaro/EndeavourOS if you need ease of use and relatively bleeding-edge experience. Check Fedora if you want peace of mind. Check Mint once your tools appear in latest mainstream Ubuntu. Do not go for actual Ubuntu.

As much as I love Manjaro, same issue here. Wayland just blackscreens on an Nvidia card, and that’s a 1060, mind you, not something bleeding edge.

Yeah, it’s never visible. I normally figure it out when I go check if Timeshift is operational (it always is, I just love double checking).

Current (1,5 years in) Manjaro user here. If I’d want just an installer for Arch, I’d go with Archinstall. And I doubt I’m 1%, though nice installer might be a selling point for absolute Linux noobs.

There is plenty of experienced people using Manjaro and recognizing its strong and weak sides.

And yes, I don’t understand EndeavourOS as a separate distribution either.

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!

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.

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