Manjaro MATE: First Impressions and Overview

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[j.s.]

You can have multiple kernels installed and switch with boot option. Grub is hidden, but with i.e. escape or shift (depends on) you can enter grub menu.

[pedrosmmc]

I had Manjaro some weeks ago! And then I decide to teste Pop!_os because of the ready on boot Nvidia driver for CUDA + Tensorflow development, and it's much better. I don't need to tweak around every time I need the gpu activated. And I loved everything else. The only thing Manjaro deals better is the standby. I cannot suspend or hibernate on pop!_os with my Dell XPS 15 9570 :(
Manjaro is very very good (just tried gnome) if you don really need nvidia...

[ccroy]

Lollipop is great if you are missing album art. Super easy to download art. To me visually it looks a lot like iTunes. I like it.

[wernerclaassen]

Please do a review of gecko linux from install to running it?

[MRLIROCK]

Does Manjaro preinstall the Mate-tweak-tool which makes Ubuntu-Mate so special?
You are absolutely right the default Mate themes are atrocious!

[perdomot]

I'm wondering would this be a better version of mate than Ubuntu mate?

[lennywilliford]

It's asking for a dynamic user password after install, any ideas?

[mikeelek]

I had no idea that was pronounced, "mah-tey."

[divootiroll]

Mr Jay, how does the MATE version differ from the XFCE version? Because they look...the same?

[sajinjozfsj]

What about plasma5 kde?? Is it better than this distro?

[mirceavasile]

Latest version of Firefox is 66.0.3 - you have 66.0.2. I don't understand it. I'm also running Manjaro (KDE) and have the 66.0.3. Also Win 10 and there also is 66.0.3. WTF!?

[premier]

Manjaro doesn't seem convenient. i just installed it in virtualbox and it didn't auto install guest additions. Mint does.