Manjaro? So it will break after a few updates?
Edit: I want more competition. Don’t get me wrong. The more handhelds, the more linux, the more innovation!!
Manjaro isn’t that fragile on its own. No, seriously, their goal is to make a stable version of Arch. No wait stop laughing —
The majority of issues with Manjaro itself (notwithstanding the team’s other issues) would be fixed by retiring the AUR as an official software source altogether. It simply isn’t a repository built with Manjaro’s slower burn in mind; it demands a bleeding edge system. If you don’t use the AUR, Manjaro is as stable as any other system. It just sucks for many other reasons, which is why I personally wouldn’t use it.
i use manjaro for about 3 years as my daily driver and do not have problems at all.
Is it really that bad? Had manjaro as daily driver for about 4 years and the only time I broke was when I tried dangerous stuff xD. The main argument I keep hearing, is the they had invalid certs on their site. Is there anything else? Back ten it seemed like a great ateway into arch. Not using arch BTW. :-P
Not really, the organisation behind Manjaro introduces a bug every two years or so (I think their software manager caused excessive requests to the Arch repos at one point?) and sometimes their website’s certificate renewal breaks for a few days, but that’s about it.
The biggest breakage problems occur when the AUR gets ahead of the Manjaro packages and compiles and upgrades fail, but they don’t leave you with an unbootable system unless you ignore a lot of warnings and try to force your way through a doomed upgrade.
It’s no worse than Arch, except installing Arch is so difficult that the people who don’t know why they broke their installs will veer off to another distro instead. Manjaro users also have a tendency to go to the Arch forums for support which annoys the Arch people for good reason, but I doubt they’d be any less annoyed if the people who couldn’t even be bothered to check if they’re on the right forum did install Arch.
Manjaro does tend to distribute code that’s nowhere near stable yet as part of their “standard” releases, which causes annoyances for others (notably the Asahi folks, because the ARM Apple CPUs were nowhere close to prime time yet when Manjaro announced Apple support based on Asahi) but the same can be said for Arch, or any Arch split-off like Endeavour, because bleeding edge support will always be painful for new software packages.
Even a non-aur build has broken for me. You cannot just take a snapshot of a bleeding edge distro and call it stable and then blame the end users when a normal operation like building from source breaks things (because that’s all the AUR really is. As long as you meet the dependencies, the software in the AUR should just work, I’ve used pkgbuild files to compile stuff from source and use on RHEL without issue)
I’ve been burned by Manjaro a few times, I refuse to let it go.
I’ve been running it for years, on a laptop with an Nvidia card no less. Manjaro seems to be more unstable than Ubuntu in terms of regular updates. Even with the AUR, you can just wait for the packages to get updated for the breakages to go away. Every major breakage I’ve encountered was either an upstream issue (yay, rolling releases!) or an AUR package not indicating its dependencies properly (producing errors like “libgarglesplurt.19.0.so not found” on startup). Arch installs have broken for me in the same way, usually at the same time.
If you’re complaining that building shit from source breaks, maybe put the blame on the packages that apparently refuse to build if you’re missing a minor update, or the kernel modules that claim support for the latest kernel but just don’t compile.
Arch isn’t stable. Manjaro is a tiny bit more stable. If you want stable, pick Fedora or SUSE or Ubuntu.
I used it as a daily for about 2 years. The cert issues is just negligence but I had major package breaking and found the NVIDIA configuration they used to be broken.
Looked great and ran awesome on first install it felt like if you don’t update right away you’re gonna hurt.
So…this doesn’t run on an Orange Pi SBC?
Also Manjaro is such a bad choice that it seems intentional. Like “see we made Linux handhelds and no one bought/liked them!”
Like you could have chosen from many of the dedicated OS’s designed explicitly for this purpose?
More gaming on linux, yayyy!
Glad to see a company finally use track pads on their device. Though I personally am not looking for a new device.
Neat, but looks rather like a mix out of steamdeck, rog ally and its super weird because of it. Because it doesnt have the same level joysticks you cant easily swap between joycon and trackpads and the page looks definitly not like some jpg slammed together. 100% not scammy looking.
And charging port on the bottom, yuck!
It looks like it has a usb c port on the top and bottom so it might be wired where you can charge with either/or?
Now that would be awesome.
Maybe they figure people will use it docked? And phones have ports on the bottom, they’re not so bad to use while charging.
I use it handheld primarily. The difference in my phone is weight. With the port on the bottom, handheld charging becomes almost impossible without constantly putting pressure on the cable and port.
90 degree angled USB cables are a godsend for this.
Let me tell you that as someone who lays on their back while playing, I truly hate charging points on the bottom. If I’m not exactly mobile, I’m plugged into a charger because why waste battery life? Having that port on the bottom makes relaxing comfortably much harder.
I was excited when i saw the trackpads. It faded away when i saw the lack of grip buttons.
So Raspberry Pie and Orange Pie? 😸
(I’m not really a fan of that website being just a bunch of images …)
