Manjaro

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 14 threads.

People raised many different problems with Manjaro, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 15 complaints

Running an update right after installing broke the whole system, leaving the user stuck2025-08-29
Updates break things, leading to hours of troubleshooting why an update broke or wouldn't install2024-12-26
Installer crashes during encrypted LVM setup and restarts everything from scratch2023-08-27
Install instructions were vague, forcing user to consult outside sources2022-08-18
Placing an app on the home screen is broken and the OS feels slow2022-01-18
Getting the boot loader running was so frustrating the commenter quit Linux on Macs2021-10-05
Nvidia update left black screen on boot and no way back to usable state2021-06-28
Left clicks stop registering until the computer is restarted2021-06-27
HDMI audio stops being the default output after the display wakes up2021-02-15
Manjaro Lomiri breaks on upgrades, making it impossible to use day to day2020-12-08
Installer fails without telling the user what went wrong2020-09-05
Nvidia driver breaks after kernel updates and must be reinstalled every few months2020-06-02
Update fails after pressing Enter on the default options, forcing the user to think about the prompt2020-01-12
Can't find the setting to stop Firefox opening to manjaro.org, so resorted to uninstalling and reinstalling2019-03-01
After a bad update, fixing things requires entering arcane CLI commands2019-02-27