Welcome and introduce yourself - 2021

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Hi Manjaro guys,

I am Thanos and i am a linux user in parallel with windows since 2004-05.
I have finished computer science and now i am working as a DevOps member at Nokia (Greece)
I have used so many distros…like Debian - Ubuntu - Fedora - Slackware - Cetnos - RHEL - Arch stock - EndeauvorOS and also Manjaro off course.

I like so much the power of Arch - pacman and AUR so i would like to find something out of the box and this is Manjaro. Also i like the fact that even if this is a rolling release there is a layer in front of it. (Manjaro repos main with the testing branches).

Keep on this nice work and put this distro on the top!!

Best Regards,
Thanos

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:astonished:

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Hi all,

new guy here. Or actually, not quite as new. I used Manjaro in the past quite extensive, and have had a forum user for years. However, due to my work, I started using more and more macOS, FreeBSD and RHEL, and thus not kept logging in to the Manjaro Forums. Now that I sport a Manjaro Desktop and Laptop again, I found my user not to be salvagable and had to create a new one :slight_smile:

Linux experience: Started with SuSE Linux 6.3 and KDE 1.1.2 in the 90s, have loved Linux ever since then and am an OpenSource enthusiast! I do love my Unix in general, and have some experience with AIX and OpenBSD, and a little more with FreeBSD. Workwise I then deepdove into macOS/Darwin and Virtualization with vmWare in the DataCenter.

State of now I administrate Windows Servers, RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu Servers - Manjaro is purely on my private machines for now.

Happy to be back :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Hello everyone, Long time using manjaro( but i joined this forum only now, when i access the matray and found this forum), I’m from Brazil and use Manjaro with Windows 10 ( manjaro for personal use, work and some games, and Windows 10 for some games that don’t work with Manjaro even with lutris.

I hope i can be of some help.
:grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:

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I am ready to flap my fingers :ok_hand:

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Without a :wink: :grin: :joy: that could be considered as “rude behaviour”.

Although I’m a moderator on this site, this is not an official warning: just helping you to become a more productive member of this web site.

:bowing_man:

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I didn’t knew that i had to use these emoticons. For sure it was a humoristic post and not a rude one :wink: :wink:

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Did you mean snap? :wink:

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Hello,
I am a (not new) user of Manjaro.
However, I am new to this forum.
My name is Klakke, living in the region of Roeselare, West Flanders, Belgium.
Since 2014 already known and user of a ‘Linux-driven operating system’ on 5 devices of which one (laptop) serves as a test machine.
Today installed Manjaro (21.0.7 Xfce) again, fully updated, removed some unnecessary programs and made the operating system to my liking.

Klakke.

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Hello everyone,

I’m Al.
I was taken by a bout of madness (maybe?) and installed Manjaro KDE Plasma on my laptop.
I’m a complete newbie so I expect to be asking a lot of (probably) silly questions if searching the depth of the Internet fails me.

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As I haven’t posted this in a while in this thread:,

Here is the ultimate N00b guide:

:bowing_man:

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Long-time Windows user, and even a DOS user prior to that (anyone else remember using QEMM386 for memory management and Stacker to compress HD’s?)… I graduated from college in Computer Engineering Technology back when 486 computers were just coming out :wink:

I dabbled with GNU/Linux here and there over the years, but never really dedicated much time to any distro once I found out I wasn’t going to be able to bring my windows games with me. (all work and no play… no way!)

But in early July 2021 I caught Anthony’s (LTT) various video’s on “Linux Gaming” where they mentioned or showed Manjaro and Pop_OS in use and witnessed the huge progress that had been made over the years thanks to tools like wine, SteamPlay/Proton, etc…

Many of the distos I tried like POP_OS, unbuntu, mint didn’t work well for me (some not even as far as their Live environments loading)… I suspect because my hardware (AMD 5600X CPU and 6800XT GPU) was too “bleeding edge” for their older LTS kernels (many @ 5.4 at the time).

The Arch-based distros were a much better experience, I found myself preferring Manjaro KDE (5.10 in 21.0.7) over Garuda (5.12 zen kernel) and have stuck with it since around mid July 2021.

Looking forward to a long term commitment to Manjaro’s GNU/Linux and participating in the communities.

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Hello everyone,

I have been distro hopping since 2019 (debian, ubuntu, fedora - love it -, arch, gentoo and of course manjaro).
Has of now manjaro is the one that I prefer (as a desktop) .
I was a big fan of gnome but have recently switch to plasma.

I’m a student from a french engineering school specialized in informatics. English is not my native tongue so feel free to correct me, I’m although to improve it :grinning:.

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All fine until here:

I think it should have been ‘…although, I’m trying to improve it.’

:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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Hi guys!

I’m new here, but I’m not new in Manjaro… or am I? haha.

I’ve been a longtime Debian-user, that is what is running right now on this PC, but I’ve been using Arch in my old Laptop (Core2duo MacBook 3,1 (that is, late 2007, :joy:!) for more than a year now. And I have already installed 3 times Manjaro to different people (a friend, a cousin and my girlfriend), for about two years each one!, and no one has complained since, and everything keeps working without issues (that includes 3 or 4 AUR packages each). One of those laptops wasn’t used in a year! (pandemic, because she used that laptop at school (she is a teacher)). Almost 3GB of updates… not a single problem! :exploding_head:. That totally sold it for me, haha.

Appart from having way more packages than my Arch install (even though I always used the minimal .iso and installed what I thought they needed), I don’t really have anything to say that Manjaro couldn’t offer that Arch does (and that year of delayed updates just working, really is reassuring). And since I’m not in that “minimal” unixporn state of mind (after all… I use GNOME as my main DE :laughing: (I really like the aesthetics, and I’ve always had), and manjaro stable is already bleading edge for me, I’m really thinking to jump from Debian 11 to Manjaro stable in my main PC :cold_face:; GNOME 40 being the main reason that is pushing me (you now, that “rush” to taste new things!).

Would you recommend an ex Debian-stable guy to go all in with btrfs? Does it really offer more conveniences than timeshift rsync?

Cheers to all! :beers:

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Hello Manjaro community! I’ve been interested in migrating to Linux for regular use for a while, and made the migration this weekend. Manjaro checked so many boxes, rolling updates perhaps being the biggest, and I am eager to continue learning how to tinker with computers.

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Hi everybody!
A new entry, from burnin’ Italy here.
As an (old)normal kdesktop user, the switch brought undoubted benefits: a snappier system, faster boot and shutdown, hopefully a livelier, friendlier community -I guess it doesn’t take much to it- and, I don’t know yet, I’m glad I did it but the hop is just from yesterweek.

A few things perplex me_

first, why isn’t it made possible to remove avahi when you don’t need it? Tis is no problem in OpenSUSE.

then, I noticed this curious user mr nobody. How to find out what and who needs him? I changed his password, but I don’t feel it’s enough, I’d like to remove him, when nothings need it.

third, kate, dolphin, ksystemlog all complain:
“qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin “xcb” in “” even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized.”.
No major issue, everything’s fine, nevertheless it is a pain seeing all those complaints.

kde.weatherWidget from the kde “get new widget download” doesn’t work: the error is “module “QtQuick.XmlListModel” is not installed”
So I had to install the package instead.

In Kate the undo works only when selected from menu, but ctrl-z doesn’t, funny.

ultimately, the only thing I really miss from OpenSUSE is a konsole’s shortcut, probably the most useful I ever used: ctrl-up/down -bringing up the commands from history starting with that letter -
I guess that’s implemented in how konsole was built and you can’t do much about it, so, I think it’s time I start compiling my own stuff.
Somebody wish to point to a beginners friendly tut, either specific for konsole or a more general oen?

That’s all folks,
hope you are all well and keep away from becomin the next guinea-pig

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Hi there. I’m Ryan. To be honest, I have yet to be able to install Manjaro. So impressed am I with the live boot usb, I really wanted to make this a main driver.

I am a software engineer working for a small transportation company in beautiful western Michigan. I have been working in Python, C# and these days mobile apps in Flutter/Dart. A few years ago, I had switched over to a linux distro from Windows because of issues relating to running an Android Emulator and docker at the same time. Docker using hyper-v, and android studio using whatever virtualization it uses.

Anyway, I could really use some help getting Manjaro installed. But I’d like to thank the Manjaro team for all their hard work, this is a VERY good distro, and I can sense a lot of passion about how everything put together.

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Hi everyone,
I’m Damien and I’ve been on Manjaro for a while now, around 3 years. I was on Ubuntu and Arch Linux before. Manjaro for me hits a nice middle ground between these two with the DIY aspect of Arch Linux and the ease of installation of Ubuntu.

See you around !

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Hey, I’m Aaron. I’m from Vancouver, BC. Manjaro rules all!

Peace.

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