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Discussion on: Au Revoir, Gentoo - Sell Me A New Linux Distro

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Ben Lovy

Good points, all - true enough re: install time. Doesn't Manjaro keep its own package sets on top of the base Arch stuff?

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Charles Banas

It has a few packages written by someone who clearly has no clue what he's doing, but no, all it does is hold packages back a week, and occasionally backports security patches and doesn't publish the PKGBUILDs for them.

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Ghost

something you have to consider is that if you come from a GEntoo install, Arch would be even easier given that most of your config would be just copy files from your existing Gentoo /etc; when I moved from Void - Arch - Gentoo, the whole install where mostly just copy/paste. So maybe in your case Arch maybe is actually faster to install than Manjaro.