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I found that Manjaro just works, which is super confounding: Arch is supposed to be one of the nerdier distros. I've thrown Manjaro (and now pure Arch) at my Li
by zamalek 5y ago
I found that Manjaro just works, which is super confounding: Arch is supposed to be one of the nerdier distros. I've thrown Manjaro (and now pure Arch) at my Linux-hostile laptop, and everything works. Provided you have access to good internet Arch is almost like off-cloud-SaaS on your machine, and that model makes tons of sense for desktop usage.
Printers, the bloody cursed things, are far more reliable than Windows.
In terms of hardware support, Ubuntu comes really close. The Linux desktop has come very far in the past few years.
- tartoran 5y agoGood to know. I will give it a try too
- mikro2nd 5y agoI very recently took a look at Manjaro to replace Kubuntu and the fucking trashfire that is snap, but got stuck on several apps that I use all the time not being available through their repo. And yes, I could go all Gentoo and `configure && make install` but really... I no longer have the time and patience for that. And sadly, no, I do not have good internet, so that's an interesting thing to note.
- jdright 5y agocan you cite an example of missing app? my experience with Manjaro and Arch tells me you're doing somerhing wrong.
- mikro2nd 5y agoQuite likely you're right; I didn't spend time digging deep. I may yet make the switch...
- zamalek 5y agoEnable AUR: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository You could also try Fedora, I ran that for a while and it's also really good.