Welcome here @brucew, don’t worry about dysgraphia, as long as we can somehow deduct the meaning behind all the letters nobody will complain 
So far I’ve not found a single one in your post, have I to worry about a dyslexia? 
I also found testing branch to be the “real stable” as it’s a bit closer to Arch and therefore often more compatible if AUR packages are in use. Timeshift could be helpful if the system gets in trouble, helped me a few times to fix issues pretty quickly until next update.
Thank you, Wollie.
I generally compose offline in LibreOffice so I have the full suite of spelling, grammar and editing tools. Got me in trouble when I created my account here, though. Pasting into the bio on the profile caused the system to think I was a spammer because I was “typing too fast”. Many thanks to @Aragorn for the fix on that.
Someday I’ll have to post something unedited so you can see how it comes out of my fingers. Suffice it to say I don’t do much coding because if and fi look about the same.
As for Timeshift, been using it for years. I keep a separate partition for it on each machine so I don’t have to remember to exclude it on backups. Well, not the test laptop. That’s more of a scratchpad anyway.
But yeah, I’m old enough to have messed things up on occasion and thought Timeshift was a great invention when I learned of it. Sure beats tar!
And thank heavens SSDs and HDs have gotten big enough and cheap enough that we don’t have to mess around with tapes any more. Well, outside of datacenters, anyway.
Still, I make copies of files or directories before I make changes. Only took a few hundred times before I learned to do that consistantly… “Oh it’s just a little change…” Boom! “Drat.”
I’m willing to be that 80% of the local wildlife here doesn’t even know what tar is, and probably thinks that it’s something you get dipped in and then covered with feathers. 
Nearly was once, when the Tape ARchive borked. Hated tape then, still have PTSD from it now.
Hi Manjaro team / community, Projekt-43 here 
I am new as a member to this forum but not as a Manjaro user, which is powering my personal workstations and laptops with 
and 
free from… 
… 2012!!
Yeah, it’s quite a long time, and I do have to send a big shout out to all of you, @Manjaro-Team and community!
THANK YOU!!! 
A warm welcome to the Community! That’s about double the time I’ve had this installation for. So far, so good! 
Hello everyone. I’m Magpiny. Thank you team Manjaro for this great distro. I’ve bean using Manjaro as my daily driver since 2020. I’d be happy to lend hand to this great community, moreso in packaging.
You are very welcome, @Magpiny! Especially with your willingness to contribute. It’s appreciated! 
→As for “bean”, what’s your favourite brand? Heinz, Branstons etc. (I’ll get me coat)
Now, that’s using your bean. 
That’s his 
not 
Hi everyone!
I’m Pete. I’m not completely new to Linux (I used Ubuntu for two years like six or seven years ago when an old laptop refused to run Windows anymore, and I loved it), but new to Manjaro! I’m dual-booting it on my IdeaPad Pro 5, and am already using it more than the Windows install after just, like, a week of getting used to it. I’m running the testing branch, and I’d love to help make the OS better for everyone once I get a hang of things. I don’t have that much coding experience (yet, working on it), but I have some technology experience and like to dive deep and tinker, so I hope that I can make myself useful 
Otherwise, you can probably find me working on my public health degree, playing board or video games, cooking, at the gym or taking a relaxed walk outside 
For timezone reasons: I’m based in Germany, so CET/CEST. Also, if I don’t respond to a reply in time, please don’t hesitate to ping/DM me. I have ADHD, so I’m (probably) not ignoring you, my brain might just have run out of dopamine for the day 
A warm welcome @PeteAmbos 
Looking forward to seeing you around on here!
Hello! My name is Mike, but I go by Okerlund in this online realm.
I have been a Windows user since Windows 3.1 (and actually used some computers that only had DOS on them). I am 40 years old and have literally been around computers my entire life. My Uncle being the one that got me into them at a very young age, and when he got Windows 95 I would rent PC games (remember those days? lol) and head over to his place to play them.
All these years later, I finally made the jump to Linux roughly 10 months ago starting with Linux Mint. I am a gamer and had heard that was the best for beginners and gamers. They were right, for what I needed. But I kept hearing about Arch and wanted to jump in, but not into the deep end right away. So in came Manjaro about 2 months ago and I haven’t looked back.
Was a huge change for me. I am autistic and typically HATE drastic changes like this, but this was a no brainer for me. It was a video that SomeOrdinaryGamers on YouTube did a while back that finally got me to switch. I feel like I came in at a pretty good time since I am an Nvidia user and support is gradually getting better for that.
Anyway, that is me. I had posted in support and thought I would actually post an intro. Glad to be here.
Good to see you, another happy Plasma user 
Hi! My name is Thomas and I am using Manjaro (XFCE) for approximately 2 years now. Manjaro is my first rolling release distribution. And it works great so far.
Hola a todos. Mí nombre es Daniel, soy nuevo en el foro.
Soy usuario de Mabox desde hace unos meses y, como está basado en Manjaro, seguramente tendré algunas cosas para comentar/consultar aquí.
Gracias a los dos proyectos por el trabajo que hacen.
Abrazos desde Argentina.
Hi, I just installed Manjaro yesterday (technically today, if you count after midnight )!
I originally installed Arch manually and I enjoyed the learning experience but I have work to do, so I was happy to find Manjaro (from which I’m writing this post) to setup more efficiently.
I like that Manjaro preserves the “keep it simple” philosophy as I noticed in the defaults for zsh and xfce, etc. I also like a Linux OS that is minimal and understandable to start with. The rolling release model is the key for me. For some things, e.g. tools, I absolutely want/need recent versions and it’s wonderful that Manjaro preserves that philosophy.
It’s funny, I was looking into installing chrome, then I thought “why?”, “what’s wrong with Firefox?”. And I realized that Firefox is excellent as it was one of my browsers (on Windows previously) and also Mozilla is where the “Rust” language originated. I’m sure that I could have installed chrome, but I like the default selection of Manjaro, and this may be another indication that the Manjaro philosophy matches mine.
I used the xfce installation and it was great. I will probably switch to sway because I tried it out on my original Arch installation and I liked the tiling.
Thanks much to the Manjaro team! IMHO, Manjaro has a bright future in the Linux world! By the way, the installation graphics and xfce graphics are professional/elegant!
Keep in mind that Manjaro Sway is a Community edition. Official Manjaro editions include Plasma, Gnome, and XFCE.
The reason I mention this is that the Community editions tend to be somewhat less than current. Just something to be aware of.
Regards.
Yes, thanks! I wouldn’t reinstall, BTW, I would simply install sway.
