Hello everyone, my whole life has been mac computers. Recently, Apple stopped supporting Cuda. I hate them for that. Since I hate Windows also, I decided to try Linux. I tried different distros and finally chose Manjaro Xfce.
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Hello!
I moved here from another Arch-But-Simpler Linux (Chakra), so I feel at home really 
It’s soo coool that Manjaro has this large community 
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Hello world
I discovered linux at Mandrake time; this distro helped me to replace my Windows box by Linux.
I followed Mandrake, Mandriva, Mageia (plus many other distro around) and finally changed for a rolling one, Mint first (but not a real rolling distrib) then Manjaro (after some times with Arch).
I installed it on family and friends PCs and we are all enjoying it.
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Hello all,
Just started using Manjaro on my tower desktop as my main OS. I use Garuda on my laptops but needed something stable for the NVidia, and I love the plainness and simplicity of Manjaro. Great job to the community maintainers of Cinnamon!
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Hi everyone !
Long time GNU/Linux user , expecting to start my Manjaro journey this week.
Student learning Computer Science.
Started with Ubuntu , moved on to Linux Mint, then Debian and now I want to use Manjaro KDE.
Looking forward to helping Manjaro (I really want to make GUIs for goodies in the Terminal).
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Hello everyone,
I’m a new Manjaro user. Trying the distro for the first time and currently using Manjaro KDE. I absolutely love it. I had used Ubuntu in the past just for fun and not as my main OS. I’m a Windows user. The recent Windows 11 high-end requirements really pissed me off and I don’t find any charm in Microsoft and its products anymore. Was watching a couple videos of Linux Youtubers and cleared many concepts about Linux and open-source in general. So I finally made my mind to switch from Windows to Linux completely and advocate it here in Pakistan. I know the transition wouldn’t be so easy but I also remember how long it took me to learn Windows after screwing it up several times. By the way I am from Pakistan, electronics graduate and now studying Computer Science Nice to see a healthy community here!
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Hello from Sweden 
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I used Windows for a long time on my main desktop. On my laptop I wanted to be a little bit more experimental so I wanted a bit of a challange and used Debian XFCE.
A year ago I made up my mind to finally dump Windows om my main PC and ever since I found Manjaro I don’t regret it one bit 
now I can finally live happily ever after without having to care about the upcoming horror, Windows 11 
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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
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Hello everyone!
Linux user for many years, starting with Mandrake/mandriva, passed through Opensuse and set down on Manjaro. I love the concept of rolling release, although some times I have trouble when I want to keep a specific version of a package 
See you around!
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Hello all
I am a Researcher and Professor in Finance. I have been using Linux since 2010. Using Linux as primary OS since 2017.
I have used Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, Zorin, Manjaro, elementary.
Have been using Fedora for a long time and using Manjaro for few months. Planning to stick with Manjaro as I am comfortable.
Just like @Mirdarthos mentioned.
Experience help me decide to stick with Manajro.
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Hi
I’m Jesse from Canada.
Long time Windows user, most of my life in fact. I started out with W95/ME/2000 so on. I’ve used up to W10 so far and with the upcoming release of W11 instead of getting that I’d rather TRY to learn about linux. I’ve used Ubuntu and Mint in the past which if I’m not wrong, Mint is based on Ubuntu. And here I am on Manjaro to try it out.
What I’d like to achieve if all else fails and I can’t figure out Linux and ditch Windows as my main OS is to try out other Linux distros BEFORE I go back to Windows.
Today is about my 4th day using Manjaro and it’s a huge learning curve coming from Windows/Ubuntu/Mint.
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Hi from France
Running Linux for many years, with distros some few rpm based but the more oftenly apt / deb based, but all fixed one
So i decided to go with a rolling release because i’m too fed up to reinstall each year, and my choice has been for Manjaro, yeah i know PCLos is also a rpm rolling release but it was the occasion to discovering the pacman system and AUR, so why i didn’t choose Arch just because no time to read the faq for hours to install i need a system running for my all day work
I installed yesterday so it’s very new, with the hope Manjaro will be ok for at least four or five years maybe with no catastrophic big update breaking, the peace road and even more…we’ll see
My very first step in Manjaro look quite promising, all work good in LxQt Xfce and IceWm after install
Thanks
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Hi all!
I’ve been using Linux since 2006. I started with Debian and gnome 2, with a lot of difficulties. I remember how I had to search a lot on Google about how to install Adobe Flash Player (deprecated nowadays), or how to install the graphics card drivers… I got used to copy+paste codes in the terminal. I didn’t know anything. Oh, and I didn’t have sound for the fist time, so I had to install alsa libraries.
For 3 or 4 years I had a dual boot in my computer, with Windows XP and Debian. With Debian I discovered the best version of Compiz, so I enjoied it a lot. Then I started to use Ubuntu, where I discovered how some things didn’t require so much configuration to start to use it. That was fine and made me an easier path to get used to free software. This helped me a lot to learn Gimp, Blender, Inkscape and Scribus, and I used them professionally.
I also tried Linux Mint for some time and it was a fun experience with Mate. However, it was not a LTS distro, so after some months the updates started to fail… Then I used Kubuntu, with KDE. Thanks to KDE I discovered Kwin, which is very similar to Compiz, but integrated in the DE, with a lot of interesting functions and very customizable. I loved it. I discovered Krunner tu run applications with a shortcut…
And here is where the interesting thing begins…
With KDE I started to use shortcuts for everything. Shortcuts to run applications (Krunner), to go to the next desktop, to move windows between desktops, to minimize and maximize windows, and very IMPORTANT: to change the layout of the windows (windows tiling). Compiz did it as well with a function and a shortcut. I was in love with KDE, to be honest.
I like programming and all of this years I used some code editors, for example: Code::Blocks, NetBeans, Eclipse… However, when I learned Git I started to use Sublime Text more often, because I could add some interesting shortcuts… And finally I DISCOVERED VIM.
With Vim I learned the Vim-navigation (h, j, k, l). Yeah, it’s awesome! I learned a lot of Vim! Even VimScript! Even I have a repo in Github with +30 stars. And you can use Vim into other programs as well. For example, Vimium for Chromium… Wait… What if I could use Vim-navigation into the DE? Yes! That existed, so I learned i3wm. (I also used dwm sometime with the terminal st). I did a custom configuration for my tmux, my i3wm, my zsh and my vim. About terminals, I used Konsole some years until I switched to rxvt-unicode.
But wait… What if you could use all of this in one distro? Yeah: i3-manjaro!
And why manjaro? Because as a rolling-release makes things easier at some point, and I love discovering the new software functionalities.
Edit. PS: Oh, and of course, I’m using Rofi instead of Krunner. Actually, I use Rofi even to insert unicode characters with a custom script. From anywhere to any software. Linux is awesome.
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Hi,
I’m a complete noob as far as using Linux. But I’ve watched so many YouTube videos (rather listened to it in the background, e. g. when I was cooking) that I finally had to start.
I got curios when a colleague from university told me that using Linux, his Distro was Debian, was much more convenient. And once I heard a about tiling window managers in a YouTube video that I stumbled upon. From that time on I was like, Linux must be cool.
So this year I started that listening-to-Linux-YouTubers-alongside
and once I saw all those posts on r/unixporn, I was hooked!
I wanna rice my distro and become a power user. I looove a good workflow and I always notice when website changes make me make 5+1 clicks instead of 5 clicks as before. (I hate that.)
So Manjara, with KDE Plasma, is my very first Distro to try (how would you call “the very first one”, any phrase for that?) and I hope I will be able to get along with it in my VM.
Lovely greetings from the capital of Germany
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Hello all,
I have been using linux for about 2 years now since first toying around with a raspberry pi. I come from a windows background (20+ years). I heard about Manjaro after trying a few different Debian-based distros, and i really like it. KDE and XFCE seem to be my favorite DEs to use so far. Very happy so far with Manjaro linux as I don’t feel tied down to the mac OS or windows ecosystems, and I can still get my work done. Still have a lot to learn. I am happy I found this forum.
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As it has been a month ago since I posted this, we have a guide for that!
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Yo what it do, what it do! I’ve been around for a long time, since before the great forum crash of 2019(?). Just reupping and checking back in!
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Hello, folks! Windows refugee here. I’ve been checking out various Ubuntu-based distros since 2010 but they never really clicked for me. Steam Deck’s announcement made me want to look through penguin eyes again. But this time, I wanted to try something different so I went for something Arch-based. I’m going on 2 months now, and I’m happy to say that this is the longest I’ve daily-driven a Linux distro and I just can’t see myself going back to Windows. Especially not Windows 11.
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Oh, that’s great!
Unfortunately it would not apply to me. I should have mentioned that I’m a Mac user. Shame on me for not having mentioned that in the beginning.
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Did you read the guide? It applies to everyone moving to Linux…
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