Hello, I am Ólafur. I have started my Linux journey in 2009 when I tried out Ubuntu. Like many, I started on Ubuntu/Linux Mint to begin with. I started trying Manjaro out maybe 3 years ago (the very first time), and now I have ran this distro as my main for almost a year.
I am very happy with the stability, friendly support, and I have tried to help when I can. I LOVE AUR!!! If I can think of it, it is probably in AUR. And that is the point. On Ubuntu based distro, I sometimes had to install from repository, but here pamac/pacman has all the answers.
Manjaro is in my opinion easier than Ubuntu, and I can not complain about the stability. Hoping to be a dedicated Manjaro user for many years (and yes, when I get a job, I will support the project).
I’m from Poland, but spent almost my life in Rome. Now I’m back to Poland after 23 years, but still have Rome in my heart. I’ve made some changes in my life, and now I’ve got my own family with two babies, so I’ve fall into Linux in this technological era
My change to Linux was about 4 months ago, starting with some videos on yt, then searching, learning from books and curses, changing distros from Mint to Ubuntu, finally trying Arch (after 5 wrong installations I did it), then discovered Manjaro. And I think I’ll stop here, because it suits me very well.
So happy to be here and thanks for all the work you made
I’m glad I’m not the only person who spent half their time swearing at windows. The amount of times I’ve stuck 2 fingers up at a pc while running windows and tried to throw it out of the window.
Hello there! I don’t want to say my name due to personal information. I am from Australia and previously used Ubuntu one year ago. That PC blew up so one of my family members gave me this old laptop I am using (I am getting a new one soon). I decided to switch to Linux because when I used Windows 10, I started researching about Linux and found out that Linux is better. I took a quiz and popped up with Manjaro and openSUSE Tumbleweed. I chose Manjaro because it said openSUSE Tumbleweed is designed for users of openSUSE and not Linux beginners. I don’t regret switching to Linux and I don’t use Adobe anyways. I heard of LibreOffice and GIMP which I both had experience with before (I never use GIMP that much because I am rock bottom noob at it). Manjaro is awesome and when I was watching a video on Manjaro, I HAD TO GET THE CAT WALLPAPER. Please welcome me into this community and I hope I have an awesome time on this forum.
Hello Everyone! I’m not new to Linux having used prior distros, mostly deb distros starting with Ubuntu and other flavors and switching to Mint and a few others but none of them ever stuck for everyday use. I feel still very much a beginner. I installed Manjaro about 2 weeks ago and the install was pretty easy although it broke my booting into windows. But between the forum and google, I was able to resolve it although I couldn’t find the exact error. Manjaro ended up being set in the UFEI as the first bootable device, once removed and rebuilding grub I was able to get back into windows. So far I have exclusively used Manjaro for all my personal stuff only dual booting to windows for work purposes, I have an Exchange 2016 Messaging Lab I run on my personal laptop for testing.
It’s time for me to Introduce my self so here goes nothing
I’m from the USA But been living in Germany for the last 10 years
I fall in Love with Manjaro just be reading the Wiki, This is not my first time installing manjaro , In the Past I was trying out every other Distro
But somehow Manjaro has a special Taste that makes u fall in love with it
thank u to all the People who made this amazing Distro for People Like me
I have been using Manjaro for almost 1 year full time (swapped from windows) and have used Manjaro in the past for 8 or so months.
I am a big time PC gamer and have become a big advocate for FOSS and linux in general due to the strides some projects have made like Blender, GIMP, WINE/Proton, Godot etc. I am also learning to program in C++ along with learning bash (vary much a visual learner) so I can contribute to projects like WINE/Proton, Godot and so on. I hope I can use this forum to get a better understanding of the Arch/Manjaro OS along with programming.
Hello everyone, I’m coming from Croatia…
I’m new to Manjaro… I used Windows for most of my time, than 7 months ago I installed Ubuntu(as recomendation for start) and I was pretty satisfied(compared to Windows)…
Also I found some good course for fullstack development and it explained for Linux(Ubuntu)/MacOS…
But now I bought new laptop, and have some serious issues with Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros and started to search something new and found Manjaro…
I must say I’m delighted how it looks, so slick, so cool, absolutely amazing, I only hope that I won’t have problems on this course that I can’t solve on Manjaro because I’m still new, and I see it has lot of diversity compared to Ubuntu…
Non-native English speaker probably meaning “More kernels supported” (Ubuntu has 1 supported kernel per version) so more diversity in Manjaro than in Ubuntu! I.E. Ubuntu is diverse, but Manjaro is more diverse!
Yeah, sorry, I choose wrong word to explain myself, I’m not native speaker…
I wanted to say that when you start use Manjaro for the first time it looks pretty different than Ubuntu, using pacman and other commands, sudenly I need to google every command I want to use if you understand what I say…
I mean it’s not problem for me, I like to learn new things and I love linux… but first time I started use linux I didn’t understand how all this works, so I use Ubuntu, then someone told me, I use Zorin it’s much better, then no no, use ElementaryOS, or PopOS and firstly I thought that they are really different and I decided to try, but when I started use them and try to fix some things that didn’t work on Ubuntu, I actually understand that all of them is actually same distro(ubuntu based) and that 99% things that I try there I could try on Ubuntu also and same problems still persists, so I decided I need to try some distro really different and found Manjaro and I was expect diferencies, but still as a beginner you can’t fully understand what that means, until you try(different package manager,different commands, no ppa etc), all those things I thought okay, that’s default on Linux, but actually no, they are default on Ubuntu haha.
Sorry for long post, I hope you can now understand what I mean, and sorry on some mistakes with my english
Hello i am Michael from South-Germany.
I use since many years Linux. First i used Ubuntu, after i tested Kubuntu, OpenSuSe, Fedora, etc.
Now my main Linux is MINT but i am not completely happy with it.
I want to try something new and now i am here and want to install Manjaro.
I am happy to have good conversations here.
And i have my first question… Which filesystem is the best to use for a workstation with SSD?
New to the forum and new to linux, decided to let go of ms hold of me and try something new.
Been distrohopping (pop-os, fedora, mint, ubuntu) for the last month but I feel most at home with Manjaro , everything just works (except for google stadia but thatś not Manjaros fault).
Hopefully Iĺl stick to linux now.
Been reading the forums as well and everyone seems really helpful.
I see in comments that I should introduce myself, so here goes. Was an electronics tech, then was a test engineer building particle accelerators. I’ve been using linux since Red Hat 6.0. Mandrake and derivatives was my go to distribution until early Ubuntu. As I said I am enjoying Manjaro. tried it a couple of years ago and am happy to see the continued development and improvements. I am enjoying kde
… I tended to spend about as much time swearing at the computer as actually using it! 
-ed in the Linux world. Never looked back.
I decided to switch to Linux because when I used Windows 10, I started researching about Linux and found out that Linux is better. I took a quiz and popped up with Manjaro and openSUSE Tumbleweed. I chose Manjaro because it said openSUSE Tumbleweed is designed for users of openSUSE and not Linux beginners. 
I don’t regret switching to Linux and I don’t use Adobe anyways. 
… I have 2 feline companions by the way.
