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Edit because some people cannot read: I'm not saying Manjaro is bad but there's a gap it filled, yet at a cost. Even so, this gap ought to be filled and Manjaro showed us how big this gap is.

IIRC a lot of the Arch User's hate against Manjaro/Endeavour came from bad/repetitive forum questions of things that were actually well-documented in the wiki and clear to anyone who'd installed it manually... or already fixed in Arch but not in Manjaro.

That really poisoned the well and I still don't like the "Arch but easy" marketing of some parts of their community. Manjaro and EOS (just like Arch) can and will break and one shouldn't expect otherwise.

Ironically the quality of Arch makes it appealing to not only those who want to learn deep distro internals and fully control their system (which is how it used to be). So there's a real demand for something that has some of the upsides of Arch (a great package manager like Pacman, a flexible and incredibly huge amount of packages in the AUR) without requiring to learn Arch. There's no reason why you shouldn't have one w/o the other. But IMO Manjaro/EOS ain't it, because of the reasons above.

I'm mostly hoping for fedora (Silverblue) to fill that gap as an accessible, up to date, vanilla and fully stocked (with Flatpak) distro.