wbmnfktr Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 (edited) 1 hour ago, FireWire said: I don't remember it being difficult, everything works as well as it did when I was on Ubuntu. Odd that it gave you trouble. I installed Docker then DDEV then done. Don't remember the exact packages but some weren't available at all, some broken... it was a disaster. Stayed on Manjaro for a few weeks on, even a big update didn't fix it. So I moved on. Right now the latest minimal i3 .iso is loading and Gnome Boxes is ready for test-drive. Perfect sunday evening. 😎 Update: Maybe I'm sold on Manjaro again. Installed the i3 and Gnome version in Boxes and even the Gnome version was way faster there than the native/bare-metal Ubuntu-version of Gnome. Installing DDEV on Manjaro is even easier than on Ubuntu now: sudo pacman -Syyu sudo pacman -S docker yay -Syyu ddev-bin sudo usermod -aG docker $USER sudo systemctl start docker.service sudo systemctl enable docker.service reboot AND... everything looks way more polished in Gnome now. Will keep the VM for a while and work on some projects there. That's insane how good Manjaro became (compared to Ubuntu and Fedora). Edited June 16 by wbmnfktr added update to Manjaro 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireWire Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 1 hour ago, wbmnfktr said: the Gnome version was way faster there than the native/bare-metal Ubuntu-version of Gnome Best Gnome I've ever used for sure. 1 hour ago, wbmnfktr said: Installing DDEV on Manjaro is even easier than on Ubuntu now: NICE. Glad you got it working! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gebeer Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 12 hours ago, FireWire said: Mad respect. I wish I could live on this level of bleeding edge. Feels like I'm watching a someone drive by in a Porsche 911 GT2 from behind the fence at a daycare playground 🤣 It is actually not that wild. Once you got the hang of the terminology, config file structure and basics of nix lang, it is fun setting up your machine. And in the case I had to move to a different machine quickly, all is setup exactly as I need it with copying over the config files and issueing one command. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andi Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 +1 for Manjaro from me 🙂 I decided to make the jump to Linux again during Covid, with Windows 7 reaching EOL. Did some distro-hopping for a while and landed on Manjaro Cinnamon Community Edition. You basically get the stability of Mint with the rolling release model of the Manjaro / Arch ecosystem with this one. Manjaro Gnome is very polished, but during my time with it I got really annoyed with extensions breaking on every update, and some other qol issues. Cinnamon is just solid as a rock. Nemo is a fantastic file manager with tons of extensions, ddev-bin from the AUR works right out of the box. If there's issues with system updates, you pretty much always find the answers in the official announcements. Also the Manjaro forums and Arch Wiki are great places to find help on pretty much anything. Also, if you're doing a lot of RAW photo editing, darktable is a great option once you get past the initial confusion. It runs ten times faster than LR and I couldn't imagine ever going back at this point. Lots of options! Good luck and and yay for FOSS! 👍 P.S. Attaching a screenshot with Code OSS and DDEV running on a dual head setup. Don't forget you can CSS your actual desktop environment 🤪 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netcarver Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 Manjaro here as well - though I have had a few issues with updates due to an AUR dependency on an obscure qt5 package that left things broken and pacman non-runnable. Had to use a staticly linked version of pacman to fix things. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andi Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 6 minutes ago, netcarver said: though I have had a few issues with updates due to an AUR dependency on an obscure qt5 package that left things broken and pacman non-runnable. Sorry to hear that @netcarver- glad you found a solution. One thing I would strongly suggest when running Manjaro on a production machine is to choose BTRFS as file system during installation, and then make sure timeshift-autosnap-manjaro is installed. This way you get an automatic BTRFS snapshot of your system files on every update, that you can restore or directly boot into from GRUB. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireWire Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 @netcarver I keep a backup drive connected when I'm at my desk and also use Timeshift as well as Back In Time. Timeshift, as @Andi recommends, is set up to snapshot the system as often as hourly when needed and every time I execute a package command including install/update/uninstall with timeshift autsnap. I keep snapshots for X number of hours/days/weeks/months. If you're running EXT4 it's all done easily with an external drive. Back in time for user file snapshots at 30min intervals. Being able to grab a file at an earlier version with pretty granular diffs is great. Samsung 990 Pro internal + T9 external, fastest snapshots ever 😎 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netcarver Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 Thanks @FireWire, @Andi Actually, that dependency problem broke both timeshift and pacman - so I had to resort to... # SKIP_AUTOSNAP=1 pacman-static -Syu to skip timeshift snapshots (I'm using BTRFS) and use the staticly linked version of pacman. Also removed the offending AUR install of cutycapt-qt5-git and qt5-webkit, and now all is good. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireWire Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 @netcarver Figured you may be familiar but added some recommendations here for the Linux curious! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wbmnfktr Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago Interim status: About almost 2 weeks in on Manjaro... in a VM (on the main machine but as a daily, beside e-mails, yes performance is not an issue) and on real hardware... outside of home on a Thinkpad X260 (still no performance issues, maybe even better). NOPE. Not for me. Don't like it. Doesn't feel right. It's off. A bit. Don't know if it's Manjaro, as I had troubles with it in the past, or the fact that I had to download about 2GB of updates since installing it already or the keyring issue I had (probably from AUR package - didn't look deeper into it). Nothing I have seen or had issues with on Ubuntu 23.10 since installing. There was a reason I moved to Debian Stable quite a whille ago just to have less updates just because my internet speed here was about 0.5 Mbit in total (DON'T LAUGH! I live in Germany. That's fast internet on the countryside here 😭). It's faster now, still... downloading such big updates feels weird to me. Especially in that time period and there was no major Manjaro release since then. I will try it for another two weeks just to ... either feel more at home and give Manjaro a bigger chance to convince me. remove my bias towards Manjaro don't give up too fast (again on a distro) But to be honest, even though everything works, I don't feel at home. Even less at home than on Fedora, which feels like walking on raw eggs for some kind. I have my i3 and Gnome, my keyboard shortcuts from sxhkd, my overall settings from my dotfiles, but still... Did you guys ever felt NOT AT HOME on a distro and if so WHY? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoeck Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago 15 hours ago, wbmnfktr said: about 0.5 Mbit in total (DON'T LAUGH! I live in Germany. That's fast internet on the countryside here 😭). Oh, that's really bad. Don't you have the hybrid option from deutsche telekom? I live in a village with only 1500 inhabitants and could order 250mbit/s immediately (but currently have 100Mbit/s). I'm currently waiting for my fiber line, which is already in the sidewalk in front of the house (up to 1000Mbit/s). It's hard to believe that there are such extreme differences in the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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