As an ex Ubuntu user, you should be able to use a GUI.
The most Ubuntu friendly installation method involves opening the ‘add’ program (called Pamac) from a menu.
When I open mine, I then type ‘inkscape’ and have options for:
- Official Repositories 162.2 MB
- Snap (not sure)
In a terminal, you can do ‘pamac search inkscape’ and find:
inkscape 1.0.1-3 extra Professional vector graphics editor
I do like to use ‘yay’, and yay inkscape
brings up the same option, but with a size:
1 extra/inkscape 1.0.1-3 (18.0 MiB 154.7 MiB) Professional vector graphics editor
In a browser, you can find inkscape has options for Flatpak and for Snap, on Ubuntu it’s a dreaded ppa option which is liable to cause no end of problems.
The snap is 107MB, and I’m not sure how big the Flatpak version would be, but definitely I’d say over 100MB, and I’d say surely on Ubuntu the Snap would be the best option… so the worst you can say is that Manjaro offers exactly the same option.
My advice is to learn and compare the tools available, starting with the ‘add/remove’ gui, open also pamac in terminal, and maybe another terminal to look at ‘yay’ (you can do `pamac install yay’ to compare those).
I don’t think 100MB is huge for inkscape. I think Inkscape is, indeed, a large software.
To get information on my screen, I use two tools - xsensors is a good way to put up a window showing data. For monitoring, I generally open up a conky which has 3 windows. One is persistent and shows network activity, a clock, RAM and CPU bars. The next runs for 2 minutes and shows disk activity, disks and temperatures, CPU frequency and temperatures and fan speed.
The last one is just a quick one, showing the last timeshift snapshot, and the result of ${execi 5000 df -h --total /mnt/*} which lists all my mounted drives (all mounted on /mnt).
I’d suggest starting with pamac install xsensors
and find ways to put salient data into a small conky.
xsensors uses data which needs this:
1 extra/lm_sensors 3.6.0-2 (135.4 KiB 478.2 KiB) (Installed)
Have fun