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Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?

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Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?

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Post by zdragnar »

markstos wrote: post #14
jonathankoren wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. OSes are practically irrelevant. The only thing I need is a web browser and a terminal with posix like commands. I can (almost) get that on Windows these days. I’ve run Mac for 20 years now, and before that Linux for almost 10. I can’t think of anything I lost when switching beyond focus follows mouse.

You also need some form of window management, and if you like tiling windows, Linux has the most options by far.

If you miss focus follows mouse and like tiling windows, i3 and sway both have that option.

Others might too, those are the only two I have experience with though.

Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?

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Post by justsomehnguy »

olavgg wrote: post #25

I still use (K)Ubuntu desktop, but for servers I feel Centos Stream 9 is best choice for a homelab at the moment. Debian is also good. What these two distros have over Ubuntu, is easy and clear documentation. Ubuntu Server adds so much noise, they are changing too many things over the years. Network configuration documentation is a mess. I'm tired of googling for an example thats updated. For Centos I easily find exa…

> Centos Stream 9

Rocky Linux?

Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?

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Post by WD-42 »

Arch Linux is a meme but also a really solid distro. I'm writing this from a 2+ year old Arch install that has had basically 0 stability issues. "Rolling release" gets an undeserved bad reputation in my opinion, and many arch packages aren't as bleeding edge as you'd expect.

Compared to Ubuntu where I'd often have major issues in between releases, I don't think I could ever go back.

Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?

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Post by Fwirt »

If you have the stomach for starting from nothing and installing only what you need, Alpine is wonderful. It uses musl libc so there are some things you need flatpaks for, but the vast majority of stuff I've tried just works, and it's small enough that the entire OS is comprehensible to a mere mortal.

Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?

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Post by orbital-decay »

elischleifer wrote: post #4
thx-2718 wrote: post #3

Lately I've been running Fedora. Early Ubtuntu & Mark Shuttleworth were a big part of my teens and my first real experience with a Linux Desktop and Philosophy tied to Open Source Software. It's been fun watching Ubuntu evolve over the years and see distros like Mint evolve off of them as well.

Devil's advocate...how much do we really care about these different distros at this point. The world lives out of the browser. As long as I have chrome and VS Code I'm pretty good to go.

Good for you I guess, but most features I need aren't offered by web apps. Paradoxically, Linux is the only platform where desktop apps are the default.

Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?

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Post by galkk »

I'm was sticking to ubuntu because

1. NVidia seem to love debian/ubuntu more that other distros, and in general I don't want to waste much time with setting up machine learning env/CUDA on my machines

2. work has debian based distro, so using same tool/mindset is convenient

but I really want to get rid of it because of snaps and overall attitute (previous controversies with their unity desktop manager, ads in it etc). I kind of didn't cared much then as I switched to Mint linux (even that had different distro names to annoy when need to set nvidia) and went back then ubuntu + i3. Right now it seems it's time to ditch ubuntu completely.

Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?

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Post by dabluecaboose »

I've dabbled with various flavors of Linux for a few years. Started with Ubuntu in college, then ran Linux Mint for about 6 months on my gaming rig before giving up and going back to Windows.

Most recently, I had Manjaro running on my Thinkpad for about 3 years before I wiped it and put W10 on it for my fiancee. Since getting a Steam Deck I've been eyeballing Linux on the desktop again, having seen firsthand how well Proton works.

Having effectively been a Linux baby 3 times, I have to say Manjaro was everything I thought Ubuntu would be when I tried it. I remember Ubuntu being intractable, hard to use, and weird to update. Manjaro seemed almost effortless to use, and honestly I'd probably recommend it to a Windows user over any other offerings at the current juncture.

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