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I like the idea of Wayland and Gnome. It's just that using my Manjaro linux laptop reminds me of windows 95 in terms of stability lately. - frequent system fre
by jillesvangurp 5y ago
I like the idea of Wayland and Gnome. It's just that using my Manjaro linux laptop reminds me of windows 95 in terms of stability lately.
- frequent system freezes that don't seem recoverable. Possibly driver related (intel xe with an i5, 5.16 kernel). But really annoying.
- I've had to deal with a weird bug where after standby the laptop would wake up and then lock again after a few seconds. I "fixed" it by disabling screen and lock timeouts for now. I have no idea how this started happening; or why. The workaround is of course not great on a laptop.
- Screen sharing with discord, slack, etc. seems a PITA. I can share a window but not my screen in discord. And then of course Firefox is not among the windows I can actually share.
- A lot of things that would be settings that I'd like to manipulate in Gnome are instead only configurable via perpetually unstable extensions that break between updates; or configuration file. For example, I'd like to get rid of the top bar in gnome because it's a waste of space and a pretty dumb idea on a 1080p screen (sadly the most common form factor for laptops). There's an extension for that that promptly broke with the next Gnome update.
- Key settings related to touchpad configuration (appallingly bad defaults out of the box) don't even have UI. You just need to fiddle with configuration files.
- The gnome terminal has keybindings for switching tabs that don't seem to work. I've no idea why. I'd like that to work in a sane way. I'm experimenting with alternatives but haven't really found anything that comes even close to what I had with iterm2 on mac.
- sph 5y agoManjaro isn't known for its stability. The Linux desktop would have a better reputation if people first tried the big name distros instead of small derivatives.
- squidbeak 5y agoManjaro's best boast is its stability. And I simply can't accept that the second most commonly used linux distribution is a 'small derivative'. https://www.tecmint.com/top-most-popular-linux-distributions/ https://www.tecmint.com/top-most-popular-linux-distributions...
- sph 5y agoThe DistroWatch ranking used on that site is known to be bogus. I assure you, MX Linux is not the most used distribution in the world, nor Manjaro is second. This ranking doesn't even show Arch Linux in the top 10 spots, what? I'm on mobile, so I can't do a proper research, but I reckon the _desktop_ Linux distro ranking would look a bit like: Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Fedora, Debian, Pop OS, Manjaro, etc.
- christophilus 5y ago> Manjaro linux I see the problem. I’d go straight Arch or Fedora. Manjaro always gave me problems. I run Fedora on my 2 Dell Laptops and on a custom built desktop with no problems at all, but I did pick all three for their Linux compatibility. I’d suggest giving Fedora a spin and seeing if it works out of the box for you.
- Mikeb85 5y ago> Manjaro Try Ubuntu or Fedora. Manjaro isn't very stable.