I think it's clear that nobody is right here. For one, I think it's perfectly fine to say that you're only intending to ship to experienced users who can bootstrap their own system properly; Arch has always been about shipping a very minimal base system, and it's just outright not going to work for the average user. I mean, the biggest thing it has going for it is a community package repo that is quite literally just comprised of glorified shell scripts - it's a dangerous system.<p>Sure, I get the appeal of trying to get average users into Linux, and I can even sympathize with people who truly love the underlying structure of modern *nixes. But if you see yourself as someone "liberating" Arch, you're obviously going to see their developers as captors. In reality, this is what consensus-based software development looks like. These people are doing their thing, you're doing yours.<p>> Sorry other Arch users, like it or not, you’ll have to support Manjaro users. Same way Ubuntu users look to Debian documentation for help<p>Arch quite explicitly *doesn't* offer support on <i>anything</i>, not just Manjaro users. That's the point of rolling-release distros; they're giving you a chance to build a towering software stack that can collapse at any moment, and it's your responsibility to make sure it doesn't tip over. Your desktop environment could completely change in an innocuous update. Your kernel could be swapped out with the wrong package. These are not tiny non-issues, they're problems that will stop novices in their tracks when they would have otherwise been perfectly fine on a stable distro.