I'm talking about a consumer grade implementation of KDE I can recommend people over Windows. Manjaro has no MAC, has an unstable release cycle, doesn't have the manpower to maintain that testing window I describe, and is reliant too much on the AUR to a fault. Arch gets away with the AUR because the audience is power users. You cannot push a consumer grade distribution with access to arbitrary software installers that have system level access that anyone can upload.
Like I said, it would take commercial level support and infrastructure and work. To make consumer grade Arch would take sallaried testers and auditors of the software "store" that the AUR would be, except what you would be doing is maintaining your own repository of AUR packages you trust and maintain yourself, and would need some means for users to get their software approved. And like I said, you need security profiles for every package, and pacman doesn't support per-user application installs, and has nascent delta support (that is there, but sadly not mainstream).
Manjaro is a start. Netrunner Rolling is too. Chakra is a third. But none take the task seriously enough, because they are made to be less rapid Arch's, not a consumer product. Its simply not something a hobbyist community can accomplish because inherent to being a community distro is the inability to design and target those outside it effectively. Its simply a problem that requires money and commercial support that could be easily picked up and done by any company that wants to take it on but it isn't something the community can make themselves.
Like I said, it would take commercial level support and infrastructure and work. To make consumer grade Arch would take sallaried testers and auditors of the software "store" that the AUR would be, except what you would be doing is maintaining your own repository of AUR packages you trust and maintain yourself, and would need some means for users to get their software approved. And like I said, you need security profiles for every package, and pacman doesn't support per-user application installs, and has nascent delta support (that is there, but sadly not mainstream).
Manjaro is a start. Netrunner Rolling is too. Chakra is a third. But none take the task seriously enough, because they are made to be less rapid Arch's, not a consumer product. Its simply not something a hobbyist community can accomplish because inherent to being a community distro is the inability to design and target those outside it effectively. Its simply a problem that requires money and commercial support that could be easily picked up and done by any company that wants to take it on but it isn't something the community can make themselves.