Manjaro is the worst of the most popular distros.
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2026
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oh my god AGAIN?!
They gotta be trolling the entire linux userbase at this point.
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I thought this was an anniversary of a funny event that happened one time type of meme. But no. It has happened NINE TIMES, including today.
some iconic duos in the Linux community: Arch and AUR malware, Ubuntu and bad updates, NixOS and community/team members leaving, Manjaro and failing to renew its cert.
Welcome to Linux, do you want the BenevolentDictatorOS, WeaponsManifaturerOS, MalwareOS or Debian?
WeaponsManufacturerOS is Nix, obviously (they've since dropped Anduril as a sponsor but we're never going to let them live it down), MalwareOS I'm guessing is Arch, but what's BenevolentDictatorOS?
AUR malware
Really, something like this ever happened lol?
I'm sure it has. The idea that it's frequent is unhinged.
And @rotten@lemmy.today
Wait...please tell me y'all heard of that crazy drama recently where there was tons of AUR packages getting infostealer malware added in.
They got a lot more cautious after that incident but... I'm less keen on the AUR now...
Edit: https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/
Ubuntu and bad updates
This is the only drama in your list I'm not familiar with already. What/when did they last break?
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you forgot the oldest of them all, Debian and the its museum, their repos
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I like a distro with problems that I can relate to.
Bad memory/routines? We have to be related. Since that feels like me.
HOW THE FUCK DID THEY MANAGE IT AGAIN
They managed this again by not actually managing it... again.
Why set a reminder when an expiration will do the same job
They have embraced the meme
This is literally why I stopped using Manjaro.
Iβve botched 2 Manjaro installs just doing a pacman -Syu while their certs were expired and I ended up with an incomplete upgrade.
Never once had this issue with EndeavorOS.
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Again????? Again???????????
BINGO!
In fact I got a full 5x5 card of bingo because I wrote "Manjaro doesn't renew its cert" in all of the boxes.
Manjaro once again demonstrating they're not a serious distro/project, hahaha
At this point, it's a tradition!
The funniest thing about this is that it needs a single Bash script and a cronjob to solve (unless they got a REALLY bad hoster).
That bash script probably exists a bazillion times already⦠so even an LLM could spit it out for them.
Their organisational structure must be abhorrent for nobody to feel even remotely responsible for this.
Most web server have ACME support built-in nowadays, setup is a matter of minutes, no scripting required. This has been a solved problem for years, any sysadmin who can't handle this basic task has no business running public-facing servers.
Yeah, caddy automatically renews certs by default, as does traefik as far as i can tell, and certbot installs a timer for this.
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Yep... Validation of my decision to cachyos after my last drive needed surgery.
Why isnβt this an automated processs for them?
Why isnβt this an automated processs for them?
Because manjaro.org is controlled personally by Phil, the CEO of the company, who's paranoid about letting anybody else handle it. And also can't figure out how to renew automatically, apparently. People have to remind him on Discord. π€¦
Everything else *.manjaro.org (forums, mirrors etc.) is handled by different people and have never expired afaik.
It's literally just the main webpage that has this problem, everything else about the distro is never impacted.
Why isn't it for everyone? How often I see this with, I mean, major actors is head shakingly baffling.
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A little stability and consistency in the world, manjaro always delivers when it comes to this.
Holy shit this is so stupid I can't defend them anymore ππ
Like, when you... "get" the certificate... Doesn't it say... "on it" exactly which date it expires? So maybe set a thing in your calendar or an alarm on your phone or some shit? How hard can this be?
LetsEncrypt also gives you a month to update certificate, you don't even have to do it yourself, just run a script once a week in cron. That's such a level of incompetence I wonder why anyone will trust them with a distro when they can't even do such a simple task.
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Wait, again?
Is there a running tally somehwere? I need something like the credible defense guys' "0 days since airplane dropped in oceans"
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