Bug 971

[Dirk Hohndel]

On August 10, 2016 1:12:38 PM HST, Gaetan Bisson <bisson at archlinux.org> wrote:
>[2016-08-11 00:42:35 +0200] Robert Helling:
>> sorry if I got this wrong. He says he uses manjaro. I had never heard
>of that and googled where I found that it’s Arch based, where I
>(erroneously) stopped reading and concluded that it must be you.
>
>I see.
>
>Manjaro is essentially one person that took Arch, changed the name, and
>messed with anything they felt like, often creating subtle issues in
>the
>process. I would not recommend it, and it is definitely not supported
>by
>Arch Linux.
>
>The official subsurface package in Arch switched to Qt5 a year and a
>half ago. So what a Qt4 build is doing in Manjaro, I don't know...

That's one of the plights of Linux and why I like AppImages so much. There are so many strange distributions and most of them have incompetent maintainers.

Arch is one of the shining exceptions that tends to do really well. It's what i use, btw :-)

/D