Manjaro 0.8.8 / ManjaroBox Review

In November of 2013 Manjaro released a new snapshot of their excellent distribution. With it comes some very important updates as well as a new take on the Openbox edition, now dubbed ManjaroBox.

[ott]

For some reason its just recently I have come across your reviews, I find them to be concise and thorough, as an intermediate linux user such as myself,

[runlevelzer]

an excellent question Mr. Chang and the answer is an easy one. Just go to the settings menu, then Openbox Configuration Manager. The second tab is Appearance. Near the bottom of that tab is an area where you can set the fonts used by the system. You can adjust both the menu headers and items independently to suit you liking. Thank you for watching.

[NainoaKumaaHoku]

Been using open box distro for quite a few months and I'm very impressed with Manjaro so far. As always very informative on your overviews with Distros. Xfce is still my top choice because of customizability. Great job on this review hope to see more in the future! And yaourt is so awesome! Who needs a graphical software manager! :)

[It_Matters_Not]

Hi there,

Thanks for the review (I designed and created ManjaroBox). Just to let you know that about three or four alternative tint2 configs were also included. Just click "open" on TintWizard to see them.

[runlevelzer]

The Manjaro live disks SHOULD log you in automatically. If it doesn't, you may have a corrupted disk/download. Both the username and password for the live disk is manjaro.

[cbrash]

G'Day RunlevelZero, Great video, I might give Manjaro Box a go, try and build my own system, always stuck with debian, Ubuntu / Mint however this approach might teach me some extra knowledge of Linux. Wish me luck and keep up the good work.

[raulgirao]

Great video! Thanks a lot. By the way, you are not a teacher, are you?? (the way you show/comment/explain things...lol.)

[justanotherjeff]

A very good over all review, editing this comment because I was on a soapbox earlier..great rundown of the system, especially showing how easy it is to install Chromium but I dont think you're giving Manyaro/Arch enough credit for actually making Linux actually even more usable than Windows....Manjaro and its variants are IDEAL for novice users, if for no other reason that it finds and configures just about every wireless adapter automatically.  This is something that no others distros, Ubuntus included, seem to be able to do.

[supertombrown]

Openbox is my favourite DE. Marry that with manjaro and you get an excellent system. I always add docky at the bottom of the desktop with a classy 3D background. To the docky I add all the applications I mostly used. Thus, launching programs becomes so much easier. That's why I always prefer to have the panel at the top. The only problem I'm having with this latest release is that when I transfer the panel to the top, it covers the date and the clock. I couldn't configure how to pull the date, the clock and the conky a little bit down so that i could place the panel at the top without trouble. Please let me know, if you've got a solution.