Hello All,
My handle on the net is typically DangerousThing. I’m 64 years old and have been a computer programmer for a great deal of that time.
I’ve only used Manjaro for a couple weeks. Before I used Ubuntu on my home machines. Except for one laptop that I allow to run Windows.
I like making robots and electronic stuff.
Hello, my name is Dven. I use Manjaro Xfce4. Nice to be part off this forum. Hope to learn and contribute.
Thanks All
Hi guys and gals. Joe here, Love Manjaro, installed a virtual machine to test it out. Looks like the most polished of Arch type distros I’ve seen. Been a Windows user my whole life but started loving Linux recently.
Hi !
I’m Jules, 20 years old from France. Started with Xubuntu in 2010, I’ve tried quite a few distros but I’ve always used Ubuntu or some kind of Debian/Ubuntu based distro as my main OS. Recently I wanted to try something different, as Ubuntu became quite unstable and unreliable on my PC. So I’ve decided to give Manjaro a shot, I’m loving it so far !
I’ve choosed the Gnome version as the KDE one was not playing well with my old Nvidia card.
I think I’ve found my new distro of choice !
Hi, Bastian here. I have been using Ubuntu and CentOS for many years, mostly Python, Fortran in the context of fluid dynamics on HPC.
I was very excited about switching to Manjaro, but having all sorts of issues with the installation of some basic software (GCC, spack packages, easybuild modules) makes me want to switch back to a more conservative repository right now.
I do appreciate all the effort in helping me out, but maybe Manjaro just isn’t the right repository for productivity.
Hi, Keith here.
Have been using Mint for a while, but been having problems installing newer versions on a DELL Workstation. Recently tried Manjaro and similar problems in that I wasn’t able to format my NVME Drive in Ext4. But Manjaro installer gave me the simple option of using BTRFS, and it installed perfectly. I look forward to my learning curve with Manjaro. Am happy enough using the Terminal, but my command knowledge is limited, so might be asking for help occasionally.
I’ve been happily using openSUSE Tumbleweed as my main Linux for the last 6 or 7 years. Lately I have been confronting the fact of my mortality since I’m now crowding the median age at death for American males. I started writing out instructions to my executrix for starting and updating Tumbleweed which quickly got into tldr territory. My life and tax situation are sufficiently complicated and the fact that credit card companies and utilities pretty much force you to accept only pdf bills these days will make it imperative that she is able to run my computer for several months at least and keep it updated for safety. Tumbleweed needs lots of attention, is best updated from runlevel 3 and does experience some occasional breakage. Explaining all of that convinced me that it is time to simplify things.
I’ve installed Arch a number of times so that holds no terrors for me but it would have many of the same problems as Tumbleweed. I considered Ubuntu or one of its many children. This is a somewhat attractive option since my executrix is likely to be able to find an expert in Ubuntu or (at least Debian) if things should go terribly wrong. The downside is that they’ve gone crazy with snaps, which I don’t see the point of for my situation. Also, the LTS version (which I would be forced to use) gets sadly out-of-date quickly and would be dead boring to me. This would be even more true of the many Debian based distros and the new Red Hat clones. I probably will not be around much longer but I’m not looking to be bored to death.
Manjaro being a curated Arch suggests itself as a resonable solution. I can stay fairly close to the leading edge with some assurance that there will not be some terrible breakage the day after I croak. Btrfs and snapshots are something I’m used to and are nice to find here. The GNOME implementation looks fine and is familiar feeling to me. I added one of the menu extensions to comfort Windows users (I’ll never use it), and put everything important on the dash-to-dock. I think this will be less terrifying to Ms. Executrix and keep me at least reasonably entertained.
I’m also taking the opportunity to refresh this machine (which I built 3 ½ years ago) by removing the rotating rust and replacing the original nvme with one twice as large and adding two 2 tb ssds (the cheap ones with SLC cache since they are for long-term storage and speed isn’t the first consideration). These things are now remarkably inexpensive, particularly for someone who remembers being thrilled at the chance to spend well more than twice as much for a 32 megabyte Big Foot 5 ¼ inch hard drive
Greeting to all!
After years and testing with Deepin, i returned to Manjaro. 
I hope to always stay there. By now i’m sick of changing/trying distros.
Started with XFCE4 around 2016. Switched to Ubuntu 18.04 the next year, discovered that Ubuntu is based on Debian (switched there and tried to roll a Debian distribution), then I discovered Arch. Been distro-hopping for a while now, but I kind of like Manjaro… Maybe I will stay keep Manjaro on my PC.
I have this on my smaller HDD, with Windows 10 on my larger HDD (for software and gaming, still don’t much care for Windows)
Hi there!
I’m Alex from Chile. I live in Mexico and I like everything concerning to IT, computers and technology. I’ve been using various Linux distros throughout my life: Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Debian, EndeavourOS, Puppy, PopOS! and Manjaro now. Since I don’t like the Gnome desktop very much, I switched to KDE, which I do prefer. I also like Xfce, but I think it needs to be a bit more polished out of the box. It’s my opinion. I hope I can stick around here in this community and learn more about Linux. Cheers!
Hey! Started using Linux almost 20 years ago with an Ubuntu distro, I think it was k-ubuntu. Later on moved to Linux Mint, then Netrunner (debian based) and new to Arch.
I never really liked overfeatured software (vim/neovim user here), I guess that is what I enjoyed the most when moving from Windows.
As most of you, I’ve also had to deal with some incompatibilities with my favorite games, but all in all it didn’t make me to turn back to Windows. Nowadays we’re lucky to have Proton, SteamOs and all that evolving ecosystem.
Hi!
I started my linux journey around 2 years ago, slowly learning and having fun with VM’s. After about half a year I finally decided to take a leap of faith and go full linux, I installed manjaro, then changed to arco linux, then to xerolinux, and now over a year later I’m back to manjaro as I find it is the most “plug-and-play” arch distro with the least bloatware. I’m happy to be here and after lurking in this great, helpful community for over a year I feel right at home.
Hello
I’ve been a sysadmin most of my professional life, started with Windows NT4 and 2000 but switched to Unix and Linux. I worked with RHEL, CentOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, Ubuntu and so many other flavors among the years.
A couple of months back, I put Manjaro on my chromebook (never tried this flavor before) and everything worked immediately (keyboard backlight). The 5.19 kernel fixes some shutdown/reboot issue I got.
From there, I installed Manjaro on my 2013 iMac and never look back.
Hi I am new to Manjaro, new to Linux. I have been using Windows for 20 years, Mac OS for another 20 years.
I am not an IT expert , developer nor I have any formal training on computer science. I am just a passionate learner. I am retired so I have a bit of spare time to learn Linux.
I want to install Manjaro onto either an old Mac Mini (around 2014) or a Windows PC running Intel i5. I want to run it as a headless machine
Any suggestion whether Mac or Window PC hardware is better?
PC, all the way. I have seen way to many issues on here for Mac to be good. Mac is proprietary, so…no, just…no…
And welcome, BTW!
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Greetings everyone, I am Sergio Arana with Nicaraguan Realty and I am so happy with this great OS. We started using it on all our computers here at work and are very pleased with it. It is rock solid and very user friendly.
Impressed by reviews of manjaro + beelink SER4,
having loved the fun of Arch dox, decided to join…
especially in search of fanconfig files and saving
the new mini from running at 85C for 17 hours+.
Don’t worry! We’re not even upset about dual install
on ext/sda overstepping to nvme fstab & breaking boot.
We already fixed that problem again, much props to
our workers at Q&A dot com!
“Soon it will be cold enough”
–Brad
Hello there
I’m Neechee or Kakost, recently tried switching to manjaro after running linux mint for several years
Hello everyone. I am impressed by the quality of Manjaro KDE and decided to become a supporter 5. Keep up the good work! 