Until you do a dist-upgrade and random shit breaks (:

+1 for using "You're"

so that still counts, right?

Still counts. You now have to say you use arch every hour, otherwise you'll implode.

manjaro has had a lot of drama and problems in the past and i don't think it's really a good distro to use. they forgot to renew their ssl certificate multiple times, they break software due to their weird update strategy (they use custom repos which hold back updates mostly arbitrarily for a week) which breaks dependencies and sometimes breaks the entire system, and their gui package manager once overwhelmed the AUR with traffic.

a better alternative with an easy gui installer would be endeavouros or cachyos. endeavour is basically manjaro except competent and with regular arch packages. cachy has its own repos (in order to build specialized versions of packages), but it keeps in sync with the regular arch repos.

though of course if manjaro is working for you that's great and any amount of linux use is good. manjaro is just a bit temperamental. i also understand that some people can't just distrohop, for example because they don't have a separate home partition, or not enough space to copy important files elsewhere before wiping their partitions.

No, it doesn't count. You only get BTW privileges after installing Arch at least once.

Oh did they renew their ssl certs so their repos work now?

Lol I cannot understand how anyone can trust those idiots at this point.

Isn't ltsc frozen in features with only security updates or something?

Hannah Montana

Half a dozen of them have real cost/benefits trade-offs that make preaching for a single one harmful. The other thousand are just completely useless waste of time not worth mentioning.

A man of taste.

yeah, after switching i found rolling release upstream arch derivatives (namely endeavor and cachy) to be the least confusing ones to work with on a pc

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

First would be programming and second gaming. Not all my games I own, do work with ProtonDB and with programming, well parts we use, don't work with Linux. We tried. Its probably just figuring out the right settings but spending several hours tweaking everything, in the hope to get it properly running, isn't worth it, when it all runs on Windows out of the box.

Not OP, and i main linux on all fronts, but still have to have a few windows machines around:

There are still some viable gaming reasons, There's still software like blue iris and corporate crap (Outlook, Office and you need to collaborate with office users). There are Adobe products, Autodesk products.

You can try to play swapsies with things here and there, but sometimes it's more work than it's worth and sometimes you're straight up not allowed to swap.

In my case, my GPU (Nvidia 1060 something) has problems with Linux, games don't run as well as on Windows by a huge margin.

Fear and ignorance