Welcome and introduce yourself - 2020

For those small problems, you might be able to re-write the guides and credit the original authors. I am sure the newbies seeking help will appreciate the fresh take on old advice.

Because Google has all of the answers. No, actually. They’re the reason why they lead on search. Though, I do wish more smart devices could be hacked to use Mycroft instead.

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I’ve been using Manjaro for about 3 years now. I really love it. I started with Manjaro KDE and stuck with it. I’ve introduced many of my friends to Manjaro and most of them fell in love with it. Just wanna thank the team for building such an wonderful distro! Best wishes!

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Hi, I’m Dave from the UK, I’ve been using Windows since 3.1 and have thought about trying Linux off and on but a number of things annoyed me about windows 10 and decided to switch about 3 weeks ago and so far liking it a lot better

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Hi everyone,
I’ve moved to Manjaro about 2 months ago because of a colleague of me. I stuck to Windows just because of Gaming before, but after he showed me how easy it is to get Games working on Manjaro, I moved. Except some Titles like Valorant or Warzone which aren’t work due to anticheat software, everything runs flawlessly for me.
Thank you for your good work!

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Hi from France everybody,

My name is Anthony, and my first contact with GNU/Linux was in 2007/2008 when my mom brought a laptop from work with ubuntu installed on it, but wifi card didn’t work so I didn’t give it a try back then.

Fast forward to 2013 when I was a freshman in engineering school, their computers had Fedora and Windoz 7 in dual boot and we had courses to learn using command line. At the same time I got my 1st laptop and I had ubuntu installed next to W8 on it, mostly because I hated Windows since xp but kept it for some specific things, I didn’t know about alternatives back then.

About 2 years ago, I got more seriously into learning to use command line and read about Arch, that’s how I first discovered Manjaro. Finally on February I bought an OSless new laptop and directly installed Manjaro plasma on it and it’s simply great :metal:t5:

Today I’m still reading about more low level distros (mostly Arch/Artix and Gentoo), I like the facts that you gotta instell these distros in command line and that NOTHING comes pre installed, so I’ll definetely check one of em some day.

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A post was split to a new topic: Can’t install rtl8188eus driver

Im not new but looks like i am again, my old account is gone. Just wonder how long until i can paste links and pics again? How do i get that ability back again asap?

Thx.

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Hi. Read announcement about old forum crash and this forum restart. To gain trust level just continue to use the forum, read several topics and so on.

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Great, Thank you.

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To keep spammers out, the limit was raised to Trust Level 2:

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Hi my name is Kilian. I live in the Netherlands but I am German. I’ve been using Linux since 2007 and Arch since 2012. Manjaro came a while later and I use it on my personal laptop as well as on some of my families machines, as a more stable and more easily configurable alternative to Arch.

As a “Fachinformatiker / Systemintegration” -> low tier IT guy, I got a basic understanding of computing and networking, which I apply together with my Linux experience to help on this forum. Computers and Linux became a hobby for me, after I started my study in veterinary medicine, which is nearly finished.

I’m very grateful for the whole Open Source Community and their efforts to provide open and free alternatives for humanity. That’s why I want to do my part via helping on this forum.

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^^ That sort of thing is one of the reasons I won’t use Windows 10. I do not want bugging devices in my home. I once caught Cortana trying to do a search on something it had heard on the TV, even though I thought it was turned off (a Windows Phone in this case) … in later versions of Win10 I believe it can’t be turned off.

So glad I made the switch to Linux, as I’m sure you are! :smiley:

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My name is Ed and have been arround on the old forum for about a year or so

Like many others i started using Linux about 3 years ago with Linuxmint. Tried Ubuntu but didn’t like it at all.
It realy took of when Windows 10 came arround, i hated it! I decided to learn Linux, never recret it!

Since about a year i use Manjaro Cinnamon as my daily driver and i’m very pleased with it :grinning:
It is stable and works great, AUR is very nice and works great.
I switched to manjaro because i was sick and tired of old software and ubuntu kernels that didn’t seem to work on my recent hardware. Manjaro works flawlessly on my hardware!

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Its amazing isn’t it. Huawei and ticktock get banned in the USA, we hear in the media about Russian cyber spies yet people willingly give 100x more information to Google, apple, Microsoft and Amazon. They don’t bat an eyelid over it

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Could I suggest starting your own topic for this? Otherwise it will likely just get lost in the thread here as it’s really aimed at introductions.

All the best :slight_smile:

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I guess that’s because their services are “convenient”, and also probably because most of people are not aware about all that spyware stuff in proprietary software.
I personally don’t get why so many people are complaining about W10 with all its forced updates that mess up the system and erases personal data (did read it several times), that cortana thing that eats like 3/4 of the RAM, ads in start menu … and yet they keep using it anyway :astonished:

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My name is Clay, in the Seattle area of the United States.

I’m actually super new to Manjaro, having only installed it about seven days ago. But my dad has been a Linux guy since Torvalds’ email, and I grew up using CentOS and then Ubuntu (4.04 to 20.04). I switched recently to get at the newer kernel for hardware support, and like the feel of the community and the OS a bit more than Canonical or IBM/RedHat provide. Although I keep a Ubuntu 20.04 machine too, for when some programs are only (.deb).

I’m a linguist by training, analyst and part-time translator (中文) by profession.

Happy to “meet” everyone, it is so amazing to see posts from all over the world!

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Hi all!

My name is Vasilis and I’m from Greece.

I’m using Manjaro since March 2018 on my desktop, where I have two partitions - Xfce and i3wm. I’m mainly using the i3wm edition.

I was a member of the old Manjaro Forum. It has been great to be part of this community.
I’m really glad to be part of this Forum again!

A big “thank you” to the Manjaro team for all the hard work! :+1:

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Welcome (back).

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Hi.
I’m also back. Same name as in the “old” forum. :wink:
My name’s Thomas and I’m from Austria.
I’ve been around in the Manjaro world for quite a time now, don’t know the exact date however.
Originally I’ve used Linux Cinnamon Mint as my daily driver, after the obligatoric dual boot phase, like most of you. :smiley: :wink:
Then I switched to Manjaro cinnamon, and now I’m using Manjaro awesome Edition as my Daily driver.
My Manjaro-PC did a really good job during Corona-crisis, when I had to stay in homeoffice.

I just love Manjaro. It’s stable and mature and the community is probably the most awesome community in the internet. :slight_smile:

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