Why you leave Arch family (ex: Manjaro) ?
10 years ago, I was Arch User. This is good linux distro because I can learn from install core to desktop. During that period, I use LXDE desktop. This is fun and excite for me. Also, Arch have AUR that can easy to install packages, ex: Caffe or ML .
But after install several more times, it become boring that I create some scripts to speedup install again. This trigger new question: In this case, why don't I just use easy install ver. So I transfer to Manjaro and xfce ver is light enough (LXQt is not so popular) .
Then after years, I get more suffer from update, usually get conflict issue that I need to downgrade some packages.
Well, I admit this is more like a trade-off that one of set:
- arch series: easy to install special packages(AUR), but need more effort on downgrade other thing.
- other linux distro : easy to update ( dont need to downgrade), but need some steps to install new requirements.
Then finally, the tables have turned. With container like nv-docker, Now I don't need such Qt or other large monolith env like KDE. It's easy to have env to dev with dockerfile or image.
That is, the steps to prepare dep is almost non, even better than use AUR. Because I can keep env outside is clean, ( but I still suffer from downgrade ) . Moreover, if I want to write some GUI, just use modern webtech such js or react that can run in docker.
So, I convert to other family have LTS distro.
How about your story?