Taking Another Look at Manjaro

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[Zoltar]

I'm using Manjaro KDE. And as you said, it's a fantastic distro. Since I installed it about 6 months ago everything just works. No problems whatsoever. It's just boringly (in a positive way) stable, no need for tinkering and searching for solutions . I can't say that about any other distro I was using. There were always some little, annoying things that went wrong. Not in Manjaro. It is and will be for a while my distro of choice.

[joschafinger]

I've been using Manjaro (GNOME) for a few months now - before I'd been on Ubuntu for some ten years. It's awesome.
Installing it was just like installing Ubuntu but faster (had to disable 'Secure Boot' though). At first I used the same old Unity-themed GNOME as before, now I'm on vanilla GNOME. So nice!
The package manager, Pacman and its GUI implementation, Pamac, is powerful and simple beyond anything I knew. You want bleeding-edge on this app, but stability on the kernel? You got it. You want the stuff Arch users are playing around with while having a rock-solid system? No problem.
Manjaro allows you to use Flatpak and Snap, but it won't tie you into either - my main reason for the switch.
You have a bit of time on your hands and would like to check out that new kernel? It's fairly easy to install various kernels on Manjaro and simply load into the one you want right now. If it doesn't work, or if it doesn't improve your experience, get rid of it.
Manjaro is definitely worth a try. On a machine that can handle something heavier I definitely wouldn't pick XFCE, but that's just the personal preference of someone who has to work on XFCE on obsolete machines at school, so no offence meant.

[emjaycee]

Have always loved Manjaro. Easy to install. Easy to set up and use. Wouldn't recommend it for Linux newbies or novice computer users though, the updates require a bit of extra thought/work. I'm using TTY updates for my KDE and Cinnamon versions to stay safe. Personally, I also stick to LTS kernels. Good review, excellent distro. Oh, another nice Arch based Xfce is Salient... especially if you're a gamer.

[SandorDaroci]

Used it before Arco came out. Was very good. Now I prefer Arco XFCE!

[fabianaguilar]

I dual boot Manjaro Gnome and Ubuntu. I like Manjaro, but like most rolling releases it sometimes breaks and I still need to do my work so Ubuntu is always there to save the day.

[sushantprajapati]

Had installed it instead of Ubuntu, but it would not detect my external display monitor at all. That was a bummer 😕😕. So I tinkered around a bit, but made it even worse. So I switched back to Ubuntu.

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

I am conflicted. Someone I trust ran into a problem with Manjaro, could not solve it, then gave up on the distro (for now at least).

[baruchben-david]

One disadvantage of rolling releases is that you may accumulate cruft over time. It's something to watch for.

[mereramkrishna]

I'd heard forum members support, hey I didn't get any support. After raising my issue in forum I did not get any reply so moved to Windows because it supports my laptop in all way

[peterjansen]

I noticed that you used the mouse to click on the menu item while it was already highlighted. Foce of habit. XFCE is not my favorite DE but this they get right: it automatically highlights the top-item in the menu when you press the Windows-key and have typed one or more letters. Just press enter to load the item. I dislike them including MS-online. A matter of preference, I get why they do it but I don't think that it will draw any Windows user over the line to give Manjaro a chance who wasn't already openminded to Linux. Something which is objectively a problem: on my Manjaro KDE you get green highlighting on green letters when you use LS to show the contents of a NTFS-partition, making it unreadable. I removed the color-scheme completely, now I need to figure out how to get it properly. I added a man-color-scheme, it surprises me that they don't do that by default, it makes reading the man-pages so much easier and much more pleasant.

[thomaz]

just a thought about "welcome back to my chanel" not everyone watching this video is a returning user... ;)
great content though - thanks a lot for your work.

[hermanzhong]

有没有中文版，很想体验一下。Is there Chinese version? I really want to experience it.

[orcaflotta]

4.19 only? Man, I'm on Namib GNU/Linux which is already on 5.0.5-arch1-1-ARCH.

[bertnijhof]

Nice video, but with a rolling release you have the risk of breaking your system on each upgrade and not mainly on release upgrades :) :)