Review: Manjaro 18.1 'Juhraya'

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[kolyoivanov]

My favorite distro. Realy good job for Manjaro team

[jasonk]

WOW. Finally a Linux Youtuber who actually shows us software installed on real hardware. There are thousands of "Linux YT channels" and all they do is "install" linux distros on Virtualbox. Thank you for being a real Linux Youtuber. Thumbs up.

[markwagie]

Add/Remove Software (pamac-gtk) does indeed have Categories and one of them is Games. I can't believe you missed that.

[little_forest]

I changed to Manjaro about one or two months ago on my main PC and I am really happy with it. I also do like xfce a lot, I know many don‘t, but I think it is just how the surface of an operating system should look like.
Two other things:
In my experience, publishers think of Words just the same as of any other everyday unprofessional text editor, like libre office for example. Working in Science, I use LaTeX and that is more to the liking of publishers.
And the other thing: I was wondering about steam being preinstalled and that might be a problem, if one is using manjaro at a company. Would one actually install an arch-based rolling release distro when working at a company, or wouldn‘t one rather use something more stable like anything based on debian/ubuntu? Or are there instances when a rolling release is more suitable for working at a company?

And btw: really like your reviews! And I am looking forward to more manjaro related videos (or also MX Linux ;) ), since I‘m using those two distros.

[GoatzombieBubba]

First thing I like to do with a new install of any distro is removing desktop icons.

[BackWoodsWisco]

Regarding LibreOffice, I concur that it is a great software suite. I typset and published a book with it years ago, and the print version turned out superb. Great tool, you just have to have an eye for typography.

[budd]

Manjaro is pretty awesome. It is definitely the way to go for Linux pc gaming. Includes Nvidia drivers and Pacman has so many repositories that have all the wine, proton, protontricks/winetricks packages. Gaming on manjaro takes a bit of setup but with some persistence it's absolutely amazing. Also Kde plasma 5 is the gui to go with for gaming.

[arcticjoe]

Impressed that you did it all on real hardware (as opposed to in a virtual environment). Question though: How did you make the recording look so impressive during the pre-OS phase of the install (ie: how did you do screen records without an OS already installed and running a screen recorder?)?

[fubaralakbar]

It's like a sane version of Ubuntu (although I'm more of a KDE man).
Also, that is a smexy keyboard in the background :D

[ciferl]

Thank you for your album recommendation. and as always great review.

[rphuntarchive]

I recommend FreeOffice over LibreOffice. I was running into some really pesky bugs in Libre with tables and lists ans compatibility w/ MS. So far FreeOffice is better for me.

[pvirgenc]

Omg there are a video in your comercials.

[KushalPandya]

I'd really want to meet IT person of such a company who's managing a fleet of employee workstations running a rolling-release distro of Linux 😂

[richmattisson]

You should include a welcome greeting and increase volume fade speed on intro music.

[bert]

Thank You for the music recommendation! :-)

[DBZwnz]

Thank you for a good insight into Manjaro!

[dave_w]

I've used softmaker office (the paid for version of free office) on both Windows and Linux. The Windows version has a couple of advantages the first being that you can just install the individual components rather than the whole office thing, so in my case this is just textmaker and planmaker. It has a much smaller footprint even when you install the whole suite and I have found it far more responsive than libre office . I also think that saving in docx or xslx format is more accurate than libre office. The downside under Windows is that it is not as fully featured as libre office (which is probably why it has a smaller footprint) and also somehow it just feels a bit 'clunky' whereas libre office is slick and just flows well. Several years ago I used softmaker under an LTS version of Ubuntu and It worked quite well with one caveat - occasionally the format wasn't accurately preserved when opening the same saved document in the windows version. Also when the next version of Ubuntu was released I seem to remember that it didn't work straight away but did when a patch was released. That has been my experience.

[gerald]

Jay, I’ve got Manjaro Gnome 18.1.1 on one of the SSD’s and it works really well. Another has Ubuntu 19.10. Debian 10 Buster on a third SSD. Debian works well but the older SW is annoying. Tried to uninstall Firefox ESR and it was set to install Chromium. All that’s dependent on it is help html files such as LibreOffice. I have yet to find a way around it. I installed the latest Firefox directly From Mozilla. Made it default and still could not remove it. By the way I’m very close to Detroit as well.

[IaMaWeSoMe]

Also Manjaro is pronounced like
manJAHRO not manJAYRO. Like Mount Kilimanjaro(Sorry I gotta be that one OCD guy). Btw great video!!

[rustyheckler]

I'll just stick with Libreoffice, wps and free office have some rather suspect behavior.