During the first impressions of said distro, what feature surprised you the most?

  • the16bitgamer
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    For me it was installing apps from the AUR, like Intel Compute. Had dependency issues and errors every time other packages updated and when I tried to fix it, other modules would uninstall, and break my DE, or put my machine in an unrecoverable state.

    It’s not as bad as that time my btfs file system broke randomly in Fedora, since I was able to recover my data. But it always felt like an endless battle with the distro to keep it going. Which is why I moved to mint.

    I know it was a Manjaro issue since when I attempted to move to EndevorOS the issues were gone though I dont like it as a distro (I.e. why isn’t a package manager gui installed by default)

    • lemmyvoreEnglish
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      I believe intel-compute-runtime is in the official packages, why install from AUR?

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        Can’t remember any more, either it was installed along side another package, or it was installed because of intel openCL support. Either way it’s been over a year since my last Manjaro install borked, and I’ve been running (and upgraded) Linux Mint.