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Try Manjaro Linux. It's fabulous and everything just works! I've been running it on 2 or 3 workstations for over a year now with less hassle than I ever had on
by wayneftw 7y ago
Try Manjaro Linux. It's fabulous and everything just works! I've been running it on 2 or 3 workstations for over a year now with less hassle than I ever had on Windows or macOS. I also got a few juniors at work running it and none of us has had any problem doing exactly what we need.
I had to write a couple of xdotools shell scripts to do things I need, such as "move active window to next monitor", but just about everything I searched for, I found a solution for. On my laptop which had a "precision touchpad" (one that offered advanced 2/3/4 finger gesture support in Windows) I was able to get all of the gestures working just like they would in macOS. On my desktops where I use a wheel mouse, I had to install a Chrome extension called AutoScroll to get wheel auto-scrolling to work there.
Tweaking the system to make it behave just the way I wanted to was also a fantastically fun experience though and it brought the joy of desktop computing back in a way I never really experienced with Windows. Being in control is great.
When I mentioned this another time on here someone said they liked the sound of that, but they wanted to use Ubuntu for better compatibility with Microsoft .NET Core. So, I thought I'd compare the experience with Manjaro. Honestly, there's no comparison. Manjaro was so much smoother of an experience setting up things because all the software is available from one repo and it's newer so there's not 10 billion articles about old versions that don't apply anymore like Ubuntu. I also hated having to add repos to Ubuntus package manager for every new package. With Manjaro you just run the Add/Remove Software GUI and everything comes from the AUR (Arch User Repository). Also, my Ubuntu experiment ate itself after less than a week when it wouldn't boot one day after an update.
I've been using Linux since the late 90s when I started learning Red Hat to build DMZ and DNS servers for work. I've tried Linux desktops here and there since that time and nothing has ever come close to the stability and ease of running Manjaro. I highly recommend it for switchers.