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It feels like a fork for the sake of "I use arch BTW"
It doesn't add anything of value on top of "vanilla" arch, but they still manage to break stuff that works in Arch, occasionally ddos AUR and if I recall correctly there was some controversy because the developers were assholes
Except of course that more ex-Manjaro people move to EOS than vanilla Arch. I have no data on this but there are certainlymore EOS commenters on Manjaro threads than pure Arch ( though often those groups overlap a lot as many people use both ).
I do not know anybody that uses both Manjaro along with any other Arch distro. You are either in or out on Manjaro.
That's wrong though, isn't it? AFAIK, Manjaro hosts their own repos with a focus on up to date but slightly more stable packages
That's the main repos, not the AUR.
For sure, but the AUR poses a risk to any system if you're not careful. I don't think it's really fair to blame Manjaro for that
But it is other way around. Manjaro clients were spamming requests to AUR taking it down.
I wasn't aware of that. That definitely seems like a fair thing to criticise then