Manjaro Forum:
Greetings! I’m Reso. Hiya.
I’m rather new to Manjaro and Linux in general
(spare an old Fedora ISO I installed back around 2006) .
I’m into electronic music;
Industrial, EBM, DnB, Goa, Psytrance, IDM, Dark Ambient, Filmscore.
and tripped out multi-media & video art.
So here’s my Manjaro background story:
A few months back (Spring 2021) I started installing various Linux distros via Virtual Box on my main desktop system to try out Linux and (after an easy 15 years Linux hiatus) to see what the Linux experience was like these days.
I went through a number of distros and eventually started settling on Manjaro XFCE.
Other than the main desktop in my studio - which is currently running Windows 10 because of the various software plug-ins, DAWs, and other software I’m using; I have an older Toshiba Satellite laptop that was running Windows 10. (See stats)
Since this forum is about introductions,
I’m also introducing the system I’m currently running on via Neofetch.
The current “digital me” of Manjaro.
OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
Host: Satellite C55-A PSCFEU-00F004
Kernel: 5.14.2.21.realtime1-1-rt
Uptime: 1 day, 23 hours, 59 mins
Packages: 2155 (pacman), 18 (flatpak), 23 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.1.8
Resolution: 1366x768, 1360x768
DE: Xfce 4.16
WM: Xfwm4
WM Theme: Matcha-sea
Theme: Matcha-dark-sea [GTK2/3]
Icons: Papirus-Maia [GTK2/3]
Terminal: xfce4-terminal
Terminal Font: Monospace 12
CPU: Intel Celeron 1037U (2) @ 1.800GHz
GPU: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Contr
Memory: 3675MiB / 15882MiB
I decided to wipe Windows 10 from this system about a month ago and installed Manjaro XFCE 21.1.4 because I’d read and confirmed that XFCE is a lighter-weight desktop environment.
This system I’m running on is soooooooo under-powered by today’s standards, I decided to go with XFCE because I need all the extra CPU that audio and video apps demand!
Yes, I know my system is rather limited (it’s the only available laptop I currently own), but that’s EXACTLY what I’m putting this Manjaro build to the experiment with my various current projects to test and witness how much production I can squeeze out of this system!
This build is currently my main driver.
That’s the short of it.
Hope to interact with the forum more and grow with Manjaro.
Best,
Reso