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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

My package manager has 400+ updates, but I can’t install them because some packages are conflicting, and I don’t have the willpower to untangle that mess.

~~I use arch btw~~. I use the arch-derivative Manjaro, btw.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

~~First time?~~

jdk-openjdk vs jre-openjdk? archlinux.org mentions it, although the workaround it provides is fake news and also results in pacman complaining about conflicts.

I just removed stuff, abused pacman --nodeps and prayed that my backups would be sufficient to restore my inevitable fuckup (no fuckup happened, somehow). Try that at your own risk though...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I think I’ll just switch to something more user-friendly again. When I installed Manjaro, I thought I liked tinkering. But since then I’ve started working and just want to get home to a functioning computer.

I appreciate the effort, though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Arch and Manjaro tend to have that effect on people, it's understandable

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I feel this, Fedora filled the gap for me. I needed more current software, but if that isn't a priority Debian is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Manjaro nowadays has become a hassle. It used to be really solid around 5-6 years ago. I had it for 3+ years. Then it started breaking a lot. I switched to EndeavourOS 1.5 years ago, been solid since. The jre/jdk issue was pretty painless to deal with as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The jre/jdk issue was pretty painless to deal with as well.

What’s driving me away is that I have to deal with it at all. The command just fails and leaves you to google the solution. That’s annoying and unnecessary.

I know now that Manjaro isn’t the OS for me if I’m not willing to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you like to tinker but still have some consistency, I'd suggest gentoo. It's been really solid for the last 16 years for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i just updated jdk-openjdk by it self then did the system update and it worked (endevaros/i3)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I ran into this on Manjaro today too. Definitely don't have the capacity to sort it right now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

have a manjaro desktop (with cinnamon) at the office that gets used daily. haven't seen this here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The issue probably depends heavily on the installed software and might surface for some while others don’t have it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It looks like it's a bunch of conflicts with kde stuff

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yay, I’m not alone. :'D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same - it is probably why I will change soon. Manjaro has been a bit too flaky I think. Still nice, but annoying with things like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Join us in glorious GarudaLinux land. I swear they don't pay me to shill this distro every other day.