Author should have focused on Arch instead. Especially since they use Arch themselves.
I am guessing they are not aware what Manjaro really is, and how it is run.
quite the contrary, https://github.com/arindas/manjarno
[0] https://github.com/arindas/manjarno . EndeavorOS seems like a pretty good "Arch but easy" distro these days, and maybe Manjaro's improved since the last time I ran it (a few years ago now)
Big ones are: shadiness with funding, letting their SSL certs expire 4 times, and the fact that their idea of stable isn't additional testing, but just letting the packages sit for a week.
There was also a recent kerfluffle not covered there where they shipped a broken kernel to Apple Sillicon users without contacting the Asahi devs: https://twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/1576356115746459648
- https://github.com/arindas/manjarno
- https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/
There are only 3 distros worth using. Fedora KDE Plasma upgrading after stabl-er point releases, Arch and openSUSE Tumbleweed.
Everything else is very unprofessional or full of technical or human issues. I'm not trying to gatekeep newbies, like, if you use elementaryOS or Linux Mint you're still using Linux. No elitism intended I'm just giving you my opinion.
For exploration or self inflicted harm you can also use NixOS or weird small distros. Although I like Nix' concepts I don't like their implementation or approach to users.