đŸ’Ŗ Zoid Anyone familiar with Manjaro Linux? Trying to decide what distro to install on my new (to me) laptop.
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🕹ī¸ Louise I used it for a year, i think, because it had a version with i3wm (which I fucking love). It was simple and noice. I installed on a macbook air (removed osx, only linux) and it played nice. I just needed to do extra work for the wifi.
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🤔 Dave I am using Manjaro on my desktop PC and I am very happy with it. Rolling release and AUR without the fiddling of Arch. Some people are turned off by their approach of "mini-point-releases": On the stable branch they don't immediately sync their repos to upstream (arch) but usually collect and test the changes for 1-2 weeks before pushing them to stable. Personally I don't have a problem with that, but some people do. For those Arch might be the better choice.
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đŸļ Freeman If you have the time, check out NixOS! It uses a different approach to package management, where you don't need to worry about dependency version mismatch. E.g., you can install Python 2 and 3 on the same machine (without venv). Plus nix-shell is great for setting up dev environments :)
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Nick Silvestri I had Manjaro for a long time. I'm on Arch now because I like having that explicit control over every package I've installed, but Manjaro is perfect for getting all the benefits of Arch in a ready-to-use package. That is to say, no fiddling with auto-mounting USBs and display management, etc. Highly recommend.
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🌊 Zero Two Manjaro is basically "just works" arch
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Ssbibbi Bobbiti I've found linux not as power efficient as Windows 10, and as such, just can't run it on a laptop. Was very hopeful we'd have a quality desktop distro by now.
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📉 Bill Linux is cool but isn't worth running on a laptop. Just remote or ssh into a Linux machine.
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đŸ”ģ Trinity Really? Linux has always brought at least a 30% increase in battery time for me, on my Thinkpad it's dramatic. You may have improperly configured your settings.
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🛡ī¸ Cyrano I don't use it anymore, but Manjaro was pretty neat when I used it.
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☝ī¸ Jean-David Moisan Do you specifically want a rolling release? Otherwise I installed MX Linux on my parents' computer and it's easy enough that I didn't need to give them tech support. mxlinux.org It's a distro that came out of nowhere but distro watch has it at the spot in popularity.
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🧔 Justin If you can manage it, I'd say just install Arch. Much easier to deal with newer software and the wiki is killer.
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Daedalus Too much effort on a laptop, no?
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Dopey I've been using Manjaro (with KDE Plasma) for a few months now and I'm pretty happy with it. Installation was really simple and the AUR is really nice. Any specific questions?
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đŸ’Ŗ Zoid Is it worth the hassle of extra config on a laptop vs desktop?
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🗨ī¸ Fui Why Manjaro? As others have asked you, is this your first time on Linux? What do you expect from a Linux distro? Check out distrowatch.com to know more about the different distros available.
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đŸ’Ŗ Zoid I've been using *NIX full time since 2006. I have a FreeBSD and CentOS server, and two Thinkpads (T420) running Fedora with i3-gaps, and Kubuntu with i3-gaps. I've got a Thinkpad x260 on the way and I was considering exploring distros I haven't touched. Wondering if there was anything notable that I was missing.
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đŸĻŋ Lucian Marin Antergos was a really nice distribution of Arch, but I would use Rolling Rhino to turn any Ubuntu flavor into a rolling release.
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☕ David Antoine Isn't part of the Antergos team now working on another Arch project? I can't remember the name of it. Never tried a Arch based distro yet...
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💡 Diff How's that compare with something like Debian Sid/testing?
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Dsasdf Depends on how you plan to use your laptop and how familiar you are with linux.
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⌨ī¸ Joseph Will this be your first time running Linux?
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đŸ’Ŗ Zoid The laptop is a Thinkpad x260, it's main purpose is note taking in meetings, python development when mobile, and e-mails. Everything I need to do can be done in pretty much any distro as I'm not using any specialized or esoteric applications.
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