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Hey ~~fellas~~ friends. Sorry to create yet another post on this topic (maybe we should have a sticky for this?).

About 2 weeks ago I decided it was time to move on from Windows and installed Manjaro. I would consider myself a newbie-intermediate level linux user.

Though I've used Windows most my life, we use Linux servers (no GUI) at work, managing them is part of job description. I also own a late 2011 Macbook Pro with vanilla Arch Linux. I barely ever use it but boy, Arch really brought it back to life!

I've been reasonably happy with Manjaro so far, feels easy and intuitive to use but the community has made me aware that Manjaro is maybe a questionable choice. Since I don´t plan on distro-hopping a lot I want to get it right sooner rather than later.

Here's what I'm looking for:

  • Rolling distribution, preferably. Though this machine is also used for work, our environment depends mostly on remote servers anyway. I'd rather have a distribution that provides the most recent packages for whatever I want
  • I don´t mind running a distribution that forces me learn new things or do things in a different way, I kinda embrace it. I just don´t enjoy complexity for complexity's sake.
  • KDE is my preferred Desktop Environment so far, though I guess that's not very relevant. I'd love to run Hyprland, but you know.. Nvidia :(
  • I play games on Steam but from my understanding this doesn´t matter either. Everything I tried worked great, I don´t think I want a ¨gaming focused" distro or anything like that
  • No Ubuntu, please.

My hardware, in case you feel is relevant!

OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64 
Kernel: 6.5.5-1-MANJARO 
Shell: bash 5.1.16 
Resolution: 2560x1440, 2560x1440 
WM: KWin 
Terminal: konsole 
Terminal Font: MesloLGS NF 10 
CPU: 12th Gen Intel i7-12700K (20) @ 4.900GHz 
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Lite Hash Rate 
Memory: 23313MiB / 64087MiB 
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[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Yet another one of my Garuda Linux shill posts. IMHO thr best arch based distro. As easy to setup as Manjaro. Check out their KDE light version if you don't like their theme, which is what I use. I think their edgy theme is THE WORST. The distro itself is great tho. Been running it for a few months without distro hopping, this is huge for me.

[–] radix@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (11 children)

I'm just like you, newbie-intermediate Linux user who recently jumped from Windows to (Ubuntu then) Manjaro. What's wrong with Manjaro?

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[–] arirr@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 10 months ago

Have you looked into Solus at all? They are rolling and build with a focus on desktop usage.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You want to game on your work machine?? Okay.

So KDE, and gaming, and rolling, and stable kinda.

  • Opensuse Kalpa: Tumbleweed based immutable, not sure about codecs
  • Fedora Kinoite-nvidia from ublue
[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

You want to game on your work machine?? Okay.

It's more like the other way around, I happen to work on my gaming machine :P Cheers!

[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed gets recommended here a lot. Just be aware: It's an expert distro masquerading as beginner-friendly.
Out of the box, it won't recognize printers and scanners. Setting them up is a hassle without cups-airprint and sane-airscan which aren't preinstalled, and the latter is only available through a user's repo.

Printer setup will also fail unless you add an exception to the built-in firewall. Nothing in the GUI tells you about this.

It also won't play web videos before you install the codecs. These are available in the packman repo, which will require learning the concept of repo priorities and "vendor-change", what it does and when to use it. (It can break your system)

The package manager is very sophisticated and complex, but some of its features shouldn't be used in Tumbleweed. Updating Tumbleweed like you would the normal fixed release system is possible (in fact, if you use the GUI, it's the default) but it will break your system.

And the system administration tool YAST offers a lot of functionality that is already present in the KDE options. What the differences are? Who knows.

[–] samsy@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

This rolling release thing was just a terrible time in my Linux life. It's like you are scared of the "you have to start from the ground, erase everything, thing if you want to install win7 or winXP" but the price for a rolling release is a hell of updates every day.

I am done with this annoying updates. Debian has both world's, the stable side just updates if your security is at risk and the unstable branch is near the same like a rolling release and what Debian calls "unstable" is more stable than any arch-based distro. Btw a change between stable and unstable can be done at every time after install.

I personally prefer fedora because its as stable as Debian but has mostly actual packages like rolling releases. And would be my advice for op. BTW. Try out kinoite. Undestroyable Linux is the hot shit actually.

https://fedoraproject.org/kinoite/

And don't be scared about not rolling release, a version change is just a big update. Nothing got destroyed like in the good old windows time.

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[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Funny story .. I hunt theives in PA. Especially luchessi fam connected to la Costa Nostra. True stories.

[–] theViscusOne@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago (15 children)
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