Orange Pi Neo is new handheld powered by AMD and comes preinstalled with Manjaro

Manjaro? So it will break after a few updates?

Edit: I want more competition. Don't get me wrong. The more handhelds, the more linux, the more innovation!!

Manjaro isn't that fragile on its own. No, seriously, their goal is to make a stable version of Arch. No wait stop laughing —

The majority of issues with Manjaro itself (notwithstanding the team's other issues) would be fixed by retiring the AUR as an official software source altogether. It simply isn't a repository built with Manjaro's slower burn in mind; it demands a bleeding edge system. If you don't use the AUR, Manjaro is as stable as any other system. It just sucks for many other reasons, which is why I personally wouldn't use it.
i use manjaro for about 3 years as my daily driver and do not have problems at all.
Is it really that bad? Had manjaro as daily driver for about 4 years and the only time I broke was when I tried dangerous stuff xD. The main argument I keep hearing, is the they had invalid certs on their site. Is there anything else? Back ten it seemed like a great ateway into arch. Not using arch BTW. :-P
- I used it as a daily for about 2 years. The cert issues is just negligence but I had major package breaking and found the NVIDIA configuration they used to be broken.
  
  Looked great and ran awesome on first install it felt like if you don't update right away you're gonna hurt.

So...this doesn't run on an Orange Pi SBC?

Also Manjaro is such a bad choice that it seems intentional. Like "see we made Linux handhelds and no one bought/liked them!"

Like you could have chosen from many of the dedicated OS's designed explicitly for this purpose?

More gaming on linux, yayyy!

Glad to see a company finally use track pads on their device. Though I personally am not looking for a new device.

Neat, but looks rather like a mix out of steamdeck, rog ally and its super weird because of it. Because it doesnt have the same level joysticks you cant easily swap between joycon and trackpads and the page looks definitly not like some jpg slammed together. 100% not scammy looking.

And charging port on the bottom, yuck!
- It looks like it has a usb c port on the top and bottom so it might be wired where you can charge with either/or?
- Maybe they figure people will use it docked? And phones have ports on the bottom, they're not so bad to use while charging.
- Let me tell you that as someone who lays on their back while playing, I truly hate charging points on the bottom. If I'm not exactly mobile, I'm plugged into a charger because why waste battery life? Having that port on the bottom makes relaxing comfortably much harder.

I was excited when i saw the trackpads. It faded away when i saw the lack of grip buttons.

So Raspberry Pie and Orange Pie? 😸

(I'm not really a fan of that website being just a bunch of images ...)

The whole idea behind Manjero's update scheme is just generally a landmine. LTS releases typically work by maintaining a older branch that gets updates. In this way you delay features not patches. If you run Firefox on such a system it will be Firefox LTS with this week's patches (this is kinda important for security reasons). Manjaro doesn't do this instead it just holds everything back artificially one or two weeks.

Bluntly doing this with a browser or other security critical software should be a crime.

Manjero just generally feels very amaturish and its history of taking down Arch's servers is not helping here.