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I agree, except for the installation. Manjaro I think would be a great compromise.
by lunchables 9y ago
I agree, except for the installation. Manjaro I think would be a great compromise.
- kazagistar 9y agoFor those who don't know, Manjaro is a distro based on arch with a full graphical installer and such. Easy to install Arch.
- nogbit 9y agoThe community editions are great as well, Manjaro with i3 is fantastic. If you like vim you will love a tilling window manager.
- OtterCoder 9y agoArgh. I spent most of yesterday trying to set up a dual boot with Manjaro and nearly bricked my machine. It is really dependant on hardware I think.
- mpwoz 9y agoSame! I've tried the community, kde, and xfce isos on a second drive and have yet to achieve a bootable system. I'll probably tinker with it a bit more this weekend since Manjaro sounds like the perfect distro for me, but I'm getting close to giving up :/
- boomboomsubban 9y agoInstalling Manjaro as a second OS and think bricking is a large possibility, I'd bet you have a UEFI install of Windows and used a crappy USB writer that doesn't allow for UEFI.
- saghm 9y agoPersonally, I prefer dealing with Arch's installation process to other distros. Most graphical installers I've used are extraordinarily inflexible with filesystem options, e.g. dual-booting with full-disk encryption or full-disk-encryption with a non-ext4 filesystem.
- sevensor 9y agoAbsolutely, the Arch install process is really easy. If you can cook yourself dinner from a recipe, you can install Arch. Other distros try to hide the details and I find myself playing "second-guess the installer" because everything has been "helpfully" simplified.