I don’t think I ever wanted to like a distro as much as I wanted to with Manjaro. Perhaps if I tried more distros I’d find something better, but I don’t distro hop as much these days as I use too. This last year, Manjaro’s been trying so hard to be a professional distro. However I guess I just cant get it through my thick head that a distro that looks professional, just can’t manage to do what my “noob” distro Linux Mint has consistently done for years! And that is to reliably apply updates!
Anyway the timing’s good. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed recently installed.
Also my Manjaro desktop would get hosed all the time when as a new Manjaro user I tried to update using the Gui tool.
So here is my latest attempt to update Manjaro which reported that 234 Updates were needed (this took about 10 seconds)…
[bill@bill-ms7b79 ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for bill:
:: Synchronizing package databases…
error: failed retrieving file ‘core.db’ from linorg.usp.br : The requested URL returned error: 404
core is up to date
error: failed retrieving file ‘extra.db’ from linorg.usp.br : The requested URL returned error: 403
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade…
:: Replace libcanberra-pulse with extra/libcanberra? [Y/n]
:: Replace qca with extra/qca-qt5? [Y/n]
resolving dependencies…
looking for conflicting packages…
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing alsa-lib (1.2.5-2) breaks dependency ‘alsa-lib=1.2.4’ required by lib32-alsa-lib
:: installing expat (2.4.1-1) breaks dependency ‘expat=2.3.0’ required by lib32-expat
:: installing libcap (2.50-1) breaks dependency ‘libcap=2.49’ required by lib32-libcap
:: installing libelf (0.185-1) breaks dependency ‘libelf=0.183’ required by lib32-libelf
:: installing libcanberra (0.30+2+gc0620e4-4) breaks dependency ‘libcanberra=0.30+2+gc0620e4-3’ required by libcanberra-gstreamer
[bill@bill-ms7b79 ~]$