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Always wanted good defaults and landed on Manjaro as a daily driver. Should I look at cachy or is it not worth it? I do have the feeling this community is smaller and there are not so many maintainers. But maybe this will grow.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily driver OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"}, {"id": 791139680, "item_id": 49446230, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446230", "by": "hochmartinez", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I resucitated and saved from the landfill a laggy and almost unusable laptop with Window 10, 4GB RAM and a Celeron processor, how?... Installing Manjaro (Arch), XFCE and kernel 6.18.", "excerpt": "It's not obsolete at all. Install Linux to unleash the full potential of your M1 (or to liberate any other system with a BloatOs, like macOS or Windows). I resucitated and saved from the landfill a laggy and almost unusable laptop with Window 10, 4GB RAM and a Celeron processor, how?... Installing Manjaro (Arch), XFCE and kernel 6.18. ZSwap and MGLru do wonders with memory and cache management. It's fast enough with ", "context": "", "use_case": "reviving old laptop, daily driver", "switched_from": "Windows 10", "story": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"}, {"id": 786240147, "item_id": 49140009, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140009", "by": "ninefathom", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "OpenBSD has also been my daily driver in the past, though that's currently Manjaro", "excerpt": "Presently in my home you'll find Debian, Alpine, and Manjaro Linux installations running almost constantly (plus Android if you wish to be pedantic), each for their various niches. You'll also find more esoteric stuff like OpenVMS/VAX 7.3 (on actual VAX hardware), Mac OS 7.5.5 and 9.2.2 and 10.4.11 (each on their native hardware as well), and occasionally 9front or Haiku or QNX or OpenIndiana for various purposes. Th", "context": "", "use_case": "daily driver", "switched_from": "", "story": "NetBSD 11.0 Released"}]}, {"text": " and as an easy, convenient way to run Arch, with one user reviving a low-spec laptop with it.", "cites": [{"id": 784471766, "item_id": 49029485, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029485", "by": "didriksg", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'd also check out Manjaro which runs arch in the background.", "excerpt": "I'm actually in the opposite position. I've used Linux for 10 years until I recently had to switch to Mac due to work. I started off in Ubuntu in 2016 and moved to Arch in 2018. I ran it until I started in a new job. One thing that Linux just gets right compared to macos and windows is the package managers. Brew is nice and all, but it's nothing compared to pacman/apt. I also miss it for the window managers. Coming f", "context": "", "use_case": "beginner-friendly Arch", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?"}, {"id": 747932003, "item_id": 46745750, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745750", "by": "godelski", "date": "2026-01-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "as easy as using Endeavour or Manjaro and  those are very convenient distros for Arch", "excerpt": "That's unfortunate to hear. I'd give kde a shot. It's been my preferred DE for years. But check out the below wiki and poke around for what your style is. The beauty of linux is adapting to you and switching DEs is a quick change (you do not need to change your DM to change your DE). If you're interested on Arch then give something like EndeavourOS a shot. Cachy is getting popular these days too but I haven't used it", "context": "", "use_case": "Arch-based distro", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"}, {"id": 791139680, "item_id": 49446230, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446230", "by": "hochmartinez", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I resucitated and saved from the landfill a laggy and almost unusable laptop with Window 10, 4GB RAM and a Celeron processor, how?... Installing Manjaro (Arch), XFCE and kernel 6.18.", "excerpt": "It's not obsolete at all. Install Linux to unleash the full potential of your M1 (or to liberate any other system with a BloatOs, like macOS or Windows). I resucitated and saved from the landfill a laggy and almost unusable laptop with Window 10, 4GB RAM and a Celeron processor, how?... Installing Manjaro (Arch), XFCE and kernel 6.18. ZSwap and MGLru do wonders with memory and cache management. It's fast enough with ", "context": "", "use_case": "reviving old laptop, daily driver", "switched_from": "Windows 10", "story": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"}]}, {"text": " Complaints are few: a former user warns that its layer on top of Arch adds new ways for things to break,", "cites": [{"id": 754291536, "item_id": 47143221, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143221", "by": "Mond_", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "A layer of abstraction on top of a stateful legacy system often doesn't result in a simpler system, it just introduces exciting new failure possibilities.", "excerpt": "I used Manjaro for a few years. That's how I learned a pretty important lesson about software engineering that still informs how I work to this day. \"A layer of abstraction on top of a stateful legacy system often doesn't result in a simpler system, it just introduces exciting new failure possibilities. 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Always wanted good defaults and landed on Manjaro as a daily driver. Should I look at cachy or is it not worth it? I do have the feeling this community is smaller and there are not so many maintainers. But maybe this will grow.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily driver OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"}, {"id": 791139680, "item_id": 49446230, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446230", "by": "hochmartinez", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I resucitated and saved from the landfill a laggy and almost unusable laptop with Window 10, 4GB RAM and a Celeron processor, how?... Installing Manjaro (Arch), XFCE and kernel 6.18.", "excerpt": "It's not obsolete at all. Install Linux to unleash the full potential of your M1 (or to liberate any other system with a BloatOs, like macOS or Windows). I resucitated and saved from the landfill a laggy and almost unusable laptop with Window 10, 4GB RAM and a Celeron processor, how?... Installing Manjaro (Arch), XFCE and kernel 6.18. ZSwap and MGLru do wonders with memory and cache management. It's fast enough with ", "context": "", "use_case": "reviving old laptop, daily driver", "switched_from": "Windows 10", "story": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"}]}, {"label": "Easy Arch", "summary": "Recommended as a convenient, beginner-friendly way to get Arch.", "quotes": [{"id": 784471766, "item_id": 49029485, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029485", "by": "didriksg", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'd also check out Manjaro which runs arch in the background.", "excerpt": "I'm actually in the opposite position. I've used Linux for 10 years until I recently had to switch to Mac due to work. I started off in Ubuntu in 2016 and moved to Arch in 2018. I ran it until I started in a new job. One thing that Linux just gets right compared to macos and windows is the package managers. Brew is nice and all, but it's nothing compared to pacman/apt. I also miss it for the window managers. Coming f", "context": "", "use_case": "beginner-friendly Arch", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?"}, {"id": 747932003, "item_id": 46745750, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745750", "by": "godelski", "date": "2026-01-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "as easy as using Endeavour or Manjaro and  those are very convenient distros for Arch", "excerpt": "That's unfortunate to hear. I'd give kde a shot. It's been my preferred DE for years. But check out the below wiki and poke around for what your style is. The beauty of linux is adapting to you and switching DEs is a quick change (you do not need to change your DM to change your DE). If you're interested on Arch then give something like EndeavourOS a shot. Cachy is getting popular these days too but I haven't used it", "context": "", "use_case": "Arch-based distro", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"}]}, {"label": "Laptop friendly", "summary": "Reported to run well on laptops, including one designed for Linux.", "quotes": [{"id": 802681072, "item_id": 50167567, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167567", "by": "graemep", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Even running a rolling release distro (Manjaro) has been fine on a laptop", "excerpt": "I think its very dependent on hardware. The worst my family have had was an MS surface running a rolling release distro because it was the only way to get the touchscreen working which failed at a bad time. Now switched to a more stable distro and looks OK. On the other hand most laptops and all desktops have been trouble free. Even running a rolling release distro (Manjaro) has been fine on a laptop that was designe", "context": "", "use_case": "family laptop OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "NixOS is making me less afraid"}, {"id": 791139680, "item_id": 49446230, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446230", "by": "hochmartinez", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I resucitated and saved from the landfill a laggy and almost unusable laptop with Window 10, 4GB RAM and a Celeron processor, how?... Installing Manjaro (Arch), XFCE and kernel 6.18.", "excerpt": "It's not obsolete at all. Install Linux to unleash the full potential of your M1 (or to liberate any other system with a BloatOs, like macOS or Windows). I resucitated and saved from the landfill a laggy and almost unusable laptop with Window 10, 4GB RAM and a Celeron processor, how?... Installing Manjaro (Arch), XFCE and kernel 6.18. ZSwap and MGLru do wonders with memory and cache management. It's fast enough with ", "context": "", "use_case": "reviving old laptop, daily driver", "switched_from": "Windows 10", "story": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"}]}, {"label": "Revives old hardware", "summary": "Turned a slow 4GB Celeron Windows 10 laptop into a usable daily machine.", "quotes": [{"id": 791139680, "item_id": 49446230, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446230", "by": "hochmartinez", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I resucitated and saved from the landfill a laggy and almost unusable laptop with Window 10, 4GB RAM and a Celeron processor, how?... Installing Manjaro (Arch), XFCE and kernel 6.18.", "excerpt": "It's not obsolete at all. Install Linux to unleash the full potential of your M1 (or to liberate any other system with a BloatOs, like macOS or Windows). I resucitated and saved from the landfill a laggy and almost unusable laptop with Window 10, 4GB RAM and a Celeron processor, how?... Installing Manjaro (Arch), XFCE and kernel 6.18. ZSwap and MGLru do wonders with memory and cache management. It's fast enough with ", "context": "", "use_case": "reviving old laptop, daily driver", "switched_from": "Windows 10", "story": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"}]}, {"label": "Good defaults", "summary": "Chosen by a user who wanted sensible defaults out of the box.", "quotes": [{"id": 737677440, "item_id": 46104840, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104840", "by": "ensocode", "date": "2025-12-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Always wanted good defaults and landed on Manjaro as a daily driver.", "excerpt": "Thanks for the post. Always wanted good defaults and landed on Manjaro as a daily driver. Should I look at cachy or is it not worth it? I do have the feeling this community is smaller and there are not so many maintainers. But maybe this will grow.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily driver OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"}]}, {"label": "Nvidia support", "summary": "Noted for direct Nvidia GPU support.", "quotes": [{"id": 747932003, "item_id": 46745750, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745750", "by": "godelski", "date": "2026-01-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "as easy as using Endeavour or Manjaro and  those are very convenient distros for Arch", "excerpt": "That's unfortunate to hear. I'd give kde a shot. It's been my preferred DE for years. But check out the below wiki and poke around for what your style is. The beauty of linux is adapting to you and switching DEs is a quick change (you do not need to change your DM to change your DE). If you're interested on Arch then give something like EndeavourOS a shot. Cachy is getting popular these days too but I haven't used it", "context": "", "use_case": "Arch-based distro", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Extra abstraction", "summary": "A multi-year user says its layer over Arch introduced new failure modes.", "quotes": [{"id": 754291536, "item_id": 47143221, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143221", "by": "Mond_", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "A layer of abstraction on top of a stateful legacy system often doesn't result in a simpler system, it just introduces exciting new failure possibilities.", "excerpt": "I used Manjaro for a few years. That's how I learned a pretty important lesson about software engineering that still informs how I work to this day. \"A layer of abstraction on top of a stateful legacy system often doesn't result in a simpler system, it just introduces exciting new failure possibilities. This especially applies when the owners of the legacy system have no responsibility over the abstraction layer.\"", "context": "used it for a few years", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate"}]}, {"label": "Certificate issues", "summary": "A daily user is uneasy about the project's recurring certificate problems.", "quotes": [{"id": 754295440, "item_id": 47143465, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143465", "by": "aslihana", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Manjaro too much, use it as daily distro", "excerpt": "I love Manjaro too much, use it as daily distro but their certificate issues and its recursive behaviour threaten me a little bit.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily driver OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate"}]}], "who": [{"by": "burningChrome", "context": "dev and photo/video worker", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796792", "date": "2026-01-28"}, {"by": "shevy-java", "context": "compiles from source, LFS-inspired", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46356414", "date": "2025-12-22"}], "tags": ["for Arch newcomers", "for old hardware", "for laptops", "for Nvidia GPUs"], "use_cases": ["daily driver os", "family laptop os", "reviving old laptop, daily driver", "daily driver", "daily os", "beginner-friendly arch"], "compared": [{"slug": "slackware", "name": "Slackware", "co": 2, "switched_from": 2, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "debian", "name": "Debian", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "arch-linux", "name": "Arch Linux", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "nixos", "name": "NixOS", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "ubuntu", "name": "Ubuntu", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "cachyos", "name": "CachyOS", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141385", "title": "Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165484", "title": "NixOS is making me less afraid", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433292", "title": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136736", "title": "NetBSD 11.0 Released", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056351", "title": "Systemd Linger", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029345", "title": "Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-02": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 802681072, "item_id": 50167567, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167567", "by": "graemep", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Even running a rolling release distro (Manjaro) has been fine on a laptop", "excerpt": "I think its very dependent on hardware. The worst my family have had was an MS surface running a rolling release distro because it was the only way to get the touchscreen working which failed at a bad time. Now switched to a more stable distro and looks OK. On the other hand most laptops and all desktops have been trouble free. Even running a rolling release distro (Manjaro) has been fine on a laptop that was designe", "context": "", "use_case": "family laptop OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "NixOS is making me less afraid"}, {"id": 791139680, "item_id": 49446230, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446230", "by": "hochmartinez", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I resucitated and saved from the landfill a laggy and almost unusable laptop with Window 10, 4GB RAM and a Celeron processor, how?... Installing Manjaro (Arch), XFCE and kernel 6.18.", "excerpt": "It's not obsolete at all. Install Linux to unleash the full potential of your M1 (or to liberate any other system with a BloatOs, like macOS or Windows). I resucitated and saved from the landfill a laggy and almost unusable laptop with Window 10, 4GB RAM and a Celeron processor, how?... Installing Manjaro (Arch), XFCE and kernel 6.18. ZSwap and MGLru do wonders with memory and cache management. It's fast enough with ", "context": "", "use_case": "reviving old laptop, daily driver", "switched_from": "Windows 10", "story": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"}, {"id": 786240147, "item_id": 49140009, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140009", "by": "ninefathom", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "OpenBSD has also been my daily driver in the past, though that's currently Manjaro", "excerpt": "Presently in my home you'll find Debian, Alpine, and Manjaro Linux installations running almost constantly (plus Android if you wish to be pedantic), each for their various niches. You'll also find more esoteric stuff like OpenVMS/VAX 7.3 (on actual VAX hardware), Mac OS 7.5.5 and 9.2.2 and 10.4.11 (each on their native hardware as well), and occasionally 9front or Haiku or QNX or OpenIndiana for various purposes. Th", "context": "", "use_case": "daily driver", "switched_from": "", "story": "NetBSD 11.0 Released"}, {"id": 784929249, "item_id": 49058078, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058078", "by": "shevy-java", "date": "2026-07-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I am currently using manjaro which uses systemd", "excerpt": "So, I disagree about your statement here, but let's for a moment assume it were correct - so let's not evaluate THAT particular statement, thus. You most likely refer to sysinit or something like that, right? Because to what else do you compare it to? Shell scripts? Shell scripts in general are crap. I don't understand why linux systems use them. When I transitioned to linux a long time ago, I wrote - and still write", "context": "", "use_case": "daily OS", "switched_from": "Slackware", "story": "Systemd Linger"}, {"id": 784471766, "item_id": 49029485, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029485", "by": "didriksg", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'd also check out Manjaro which runs arch in the background.", "excerpt": "I'm actually in the opposite position. I've used Linux for 10 years until I recently had to switch to Mac due to work. I started off in Ubuntu in 2016 and moved to Arch in 2018. I ran it until I started in a new job. One thing that Linux just gets right compared to macos and windows is the package managers. Brew is nice and all, but it's nothing compared to pacman/apt. I also miss it for the window managers. Coming f", "context": "", "use_case": "beginner-friendly Arch", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?"}, {"id": 754295440, "item_id": 47143465, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143465", "by": "aslihana", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Manjaro too much, use it as daily distro", "excerpt": "I love Manjaro too much, use it as daily distro but their certificate issues and its recursive behaviour threaten me a little bit.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily driver OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate"}, {"id": 754291536, "item_id": 47143221, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143221", "by": "Mond_", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "A layer of abstraction on top of a stateful legacy system often doesn't result in a simpler system, it just introduces exciting new failure possibilities.", "excerpt": "I used Manjaro for a few years. That's how I learned a pretty important lesson about software engineering that still informs how I work to this day. \"A layer of abstraction on top of a stateful legacy system often doesn't result in a simpler system, it just introduces exciting new failure possibilities. This especially applies when the owners of the legacy system have no responsibility over the abstraction layer.\"", "context": "used it for a few years", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate"}, {"id": 748748672, "item_id": 46796792, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796792", "by": "burningChrome", "date": "2026-01-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "after using Manjaro recently", "excerpt": "Kind of interesting after using Manjaro recently, I had stayed away from Ubuntu for a while and started researching to see if it had gotten any better. I found a bunch of blog and reddit posts about how Linux sucks so bad and how much superior Windows and MacOS are. Only to see this article today. lol I guess at this point, whatever works for you and your situation is what you should use and ignore all the static. I ", "context": "dev and photo/video worker", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"}, {"id": 747932003, "item_id": 46745750, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745750", "by": "godelski", "date": "2026-01-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "as easy as using Endeavour or Manjaro and  those are very convenient distros for Arch", "excerpt": "That's unfortunate to hear. I'd give kde a shot. It's been my preferred DE for years. But check out the below wiki and poke around for what your style is. The beauty of linux is adapting to you and switching DEs is a quick change (you do not need to change your DM to change your DE). If you're interested on Arch then give something like EndeavourOS a shot. Cachy is getting popular these days too but I haven't used it", "context": "", "use_case": "Arch-based distro", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"}, {"id": 741702624, "item_id": 46356414, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46356414", "by": "shevy-java", "date": "2025-12-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I may use Manjaro typically these days, simply because it is the closest to a modern slackware variant", "excerpt": "Debian is kind of slow in adapting to the modern world. I kind of appreciate that debian put FOSS at a core value very early on; in fact, it was the first distribution I used that forced me to learn the commandline. The xorg-server or rather X11 server back then was not working so I only had the commandline, and a lean debian handbook. I typed in the commands and learned from that. Before this I had SUSE and it had a", "context": "compiles from source, LFS-inspired", "use_case": "daily Linux distro", "switched_from": "Slackware", "story": "Debian's Git Transition"}, {"id": 737677440, "item_id": 46104840, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104840", "by": "ensocode", "date": "2025-12-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Always wanted good defaults and landed on Manjaro as a daily driver.", "excerpt": "Thanks for the post. Always wanted good defaults and landed on Manjaro as a daily driver. Should I look at cachy or is it not worth it? I do have the feeling this community is smaller and there are not so many maintainers. But maybe this will grow.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily driver OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"}]}