Welcome to the Manjaro forum! 
This is a place for new members to introduce themselves. Please, keep it brief.
Hey all!
Been using Manjaro for what, 6 years? 7?
Still a n00b. Will probably always be.
Such is life.
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Happy New Year!
I am still here, also in 2026.
The current installation was done on January 1st 2025, so it celebrates the first anniversary.
Itās is the longest lasting install so far, in the past i was forced to reinstall every now and then.
Manjaro works flawless since install
Problem was not Linux, it was sitting between chair and keyboard.
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Manjaro user since Sep 2024 and couldnāt be happier. Freed from the crapification and absolute sleeziness of MS products. Tried many other distros but once you learn how to properly use and update Manjaro, I havenāt found anything better. Stable and so beautiful starting with the grub menu, to the KDE desktop, pamac, etc. Every detail is covered and performance is excellent.
My 2026 goals, learn VIM, live in the .config folder and digest all I can, and start helping others more. Love the Linux community, and Manjaro specifically. As a guy whoās been a computer enthusiast for 47 years, it was diminishing significantly 2 years ago. My favorite hobby was dying. Thank you Manjaro team for the rejuvination! Blessings to you ALL!
I really enjoy having āMy Computerā again.
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Hi, Marc from southern Germany here. I signed up to the forum today after using Manjaro already for more than two years now.
After buying a Steamdeck and liking the KDE/Arch/Immutable approach of SteamOS I decided to give Linux another try in mid 2023. I have started becoming interested in computers with the Amiga 1000, then used various PCs and Laptop systems from Windows 95 to Windows 10 . From time to time I tried Suse, Knoppix and Ubuntu Systems but at that time they were not ready to be daily drivers for me.
This changed with the Steamdeck and my idea to experiment with a Arch-based KDE Desktop System. I tried Manjaro with KDE 5.27 and I liked it. Most of the open source software that I used on the Windows system was available, the system was stable, fast, configurable and looked good.
I made the decision to take a Laptop with a Manjaro system with me on a one year long roadtrip through North America as our single computer, for all the communication, photo editing, banking, travel planning etc. And it worked! I had to learn to maintain a rolling release, the rest was easy peasy. Even the switch to KDE 6 in June 2024 (which made me a little bit anxious to be honest, since we didnt have backup system with us) worked flawlessly. That convinced me to continue using Manjaro back home with the Win10 end of life in mind.
And here I am.
Thank you to the whole Manjaro team for the excellent work and the vision for an all-round linux distribution.
My tasks for the next few days:
- get timeshift set up
- get the NVIDIA Pascal pre 590 situation solvedā¦
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Hi hello, Iām a new GNU/Linux user testing with Manjaro as new daily driver!, I started on GNU/Linux with Fedora, then Gentoo and now Manjaro.
I have like 1 week using Manjaro and I really like it, this is the best OS Iāve used!
Nice to meet yāall!
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Hello all! I wish you all a Happy New Year! Iām using Manjaro (XFCE) since cca 2019. It was a good journey. All is well apart some problems with wifi (intel) not working when waking up from sleep. I didnāt address this annoyance (hoping that it will solve by itself after updates) until recently and this forum was very helpful.
Thank you again and I hope this community thrives!
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Hello All!
Brand new to Manjaro. I got a new laptop for Xmass; an ASUS ROG Strix. Of course it came with Win 11 preinstalled. I was quickly annoyed with the āin your faceā and āgimme all your infoā style Windows has, so I was immediately searching for a linux alternative. Browsing the ROG forums, Manjaro stood out as the most successful linux on the ROG platform. I jumped in and installed as a dual boot alongside Windows on 1/1/2026.
Iām not a gamer, Iām mostly into photography and 3D modeling for architecture. The specs on this particular laptop were great for the price. But being geared toward gamers made me a little nervous about a linux OS, hence the dual boot.
So far, more than so good! I am really enjoying using this distribution! Yes, some learning curve, but nothing overwhelming. A few issues with display until I got the right driver installed. Now things are running smoothly. Iāll hang on to the dual boot a while longer, but the way things are going Iāll probably wipe that soon.
Thanks to the Manjaro team for a truly stunning OS!
Best wishes to all for the new year!
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Hi & Happy new year!
Just entered into my second month with Manjaro. Love it!
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Hi guys 
im a manjaro user with kde plasma WM, and a intel i5 CPU.
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Hello world! Happy new year to yāall!
Pacman user since, I canāt remember, always noob though.
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Hello,
Iām a long time linux user (from when RedHat was downloaded to 3.5ā disks) but never kept using it for a long time since I used to game a lot, I believe the most time I had linux as only OS was 1.5 years.
So Iām a complete noob.
I have used Manjaro in the past and loved it a lot, retrying it now that I almost donāt play (and donāt have a Nvidia card); with the community help Iām hoping to keep Manjaro as only OS.
(edited for typos)
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Happy New Year and hello!
Stumbled across Manjaro (by chance on Jan 4!!) during a distro hunting spree. I had started with Fedora on a Lenovo Ideapad and then got a lovely refurbed 4K display Lenovo P51, and have installed Fedora, OpenSuse and Debian, to see the differences and to learn, and most recently Manjaro/Gnome. These are now running side by side on various disks and thumb drive installations.
Of course the M2200 on the P51 is a challenge and, if you like, a hard ātest caseā for a distro. So far I find the Manjaro support for these older cards has been the best and the most explicit. Well done!! I did fall into the recent wireplumber bug and having two machines on which this occurred is actually cool, as it rules out specific HW problems.
And the looks of Manjaroās configuration of Gnome - wonderful, so beautiful!
I am intrigued by a rolling distro and I hope to avoid the potential update pains of a slower cadence, but I am aware that the Nvidia M2200 will be a potential fire hazard in my setup!
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Hi! I am a linux-user (mainly PCLinuxOS) since more than 10 years, and decided, to test manjaro two weeks ago.
Greetings from Vienna, Austria
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