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[–] someonesmall@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Thank you for explaining and sharing your journey.

Regarding 1: A system not booting anymore really is a major issue. Maybe I was lucky to not have encountered that, maybe didn't happen because I use a custom kernel. Regarding the certs: Honestly I don't really care about the Manjaro website. The certs of the package repositories are important to me though.

Regarding 2: I'm using the AUR to install some third-party applications like "gpu-screen-recorder". If you use it for system packages it will cause problems, because the Manjaro repos are delayed on purpose. One would encounter the same problem when using Debian stable and installing system stuff from a PPA.