I’ve been distrohopping for a while now, and eventually I landed on Arch. Part of the reason I have stuck with it is I think I had a balanced introduction, since I was exposed to both praise and criticism. We often discuss our favorite distros, but I think it’s equally important to talk about the ones that didn’t quite hit the mark for us because it can be very helpful.

So, I’d like to ask: What is your least favorite Linux distribution and why? Please remember, this is not about bashing or belittling any specific distribution. The aim is to have a constructive discussion where we can learn about each other’s experiences.

My personal least favorite is probably Manjaro.

Consider:

  • What specific features/lack thereof made it less appealing?
  • Did you face any specific challenges?
  • How was your experience with the community?
  • If given a chance, what improvements would you suggest?
  • @Shamot
    6•5 months ago

    I don’t like Ubuntu because of their forcing method to use Snap package manager.

    I don’t like Manjaro because of its poor dependency management. Many dependencies are not declared, so that if you update a package, it won’t update the undeclared dependency and it won’t work any longer. You have to update everything or nothing, and when disk space becomes low, updating everything at once is impossible.

    • yianiris
      2•5 months ago

      I assume that Manj follows #Arch and doesn’t improvise on sys dependencies. Definitely not poor.

      Arch-archives by date, means you can build a system exactly as it was fully upgraded on a specific date, and the system works just like it used to.

      Other systems that may carry 3 versions of the same library because different sw use different versions are the ones with the problem. Except for redundancy and space the system is not very coherent…

      @Shamot @gianni

    • yianiris
      1•5 months ago

      partial upgrades on distros without hard linked dependencies is a disaster caused by the user.

      You should never have a system with less than 20% free space, but I mean system, not /home, not /var/cache/ of /var/cache/pacman,
      Make partitions and mount things separately, especially /home

      In a pinch you can live without man-pages remove /usr/share/{doc,man,html}/*
      and on /usr/share/locale/* keep just the ones you use

      When you need a man page reinstall the pkg.

      @Shamot @gianni