![]() ![]() While using Debian heavily for several years, I also played around with a number of other Linux distributions, including such widely varying options as MEPIS, Fedora, Slackware, custom Knoppix remasters, Gentoo, Mandrake/Mandriva (spanning the time Mandrake merged with Connectiva), and others. My own path began with Red Hat Linux, before the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora bifurcation, then moved to SuSE Linux before Novell bought it, then to Debian before Ubuntu existed. Some, in fact, take things even further and end up using something like MINIX 3 or Plan 9, for the ultimate in operating system conceptual purity at the expense of significant convenience. Others, however, might move from Ubuntu to Debian, then to Arch Linux, and finally to FreeBSD. Some people prefer Ubuntu over vanilla Debian, for instance, or the easy setup and flashy appearance of PC-BSD over FreeBSD or even NetBSD or OpenBSD. Some never “graduate” from those initial introductory choices, of course, and there is usually nothing wrong with that. Once a user gains enough familiarity with the system to feel comfortable with the basics of how Unix-like systems work, learning a bit about command line operation and concepts of software management as well as finding favorite GUI applications that are portable across different open source OSes, the hunt may then be on for an OS that better suits the user’s preferences. Many new users of open source operating systems are gently guided to use something designed specifically with “user friendliness” in mind, including PC-BSD, PCLinuxOS, and Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux. The canonical example - pun intended - is the case of Linux distribution selection. Many long-time open source software users are familiar with the idea of using one piece of software as an introduction to certain types of software, to be discarded in favor of something “better” once the user is comfortable with a different way of doing things. Chad Perrin walks you through some initial configurations. I’m sorry to say that it appears that xmonad, awesome and dwm do seem a tad less popular than you imagine but if you manage to work out how to install them, I’m sure you can find lots of friends who also use them (though I’m not sure how many Manjaro users go for that).If you have had difficulty getting used to tiling window managers before, i3 may be the window manager for you. This isn’t the realm of Manjaro, that’s the realm of Arch.įor an easier entry, there is EndeavourOS which comes with themed Xfce, but also offering an online choice of seven Desktop Environments Xfce, Mate, LXQt, LXDE, Cinnamon, Plasma, Gnome, Budgie, window manager Openbox and tiling window managers i3-WM, BSPWM, Sway, Qtile and Worm… as well as a whole crowd of very clever boffins in the forum who can help, when they’re not too busy telling jokes. ![]() I do believe there was an ‘Architect’ for the slightly less moronic users who wish to build something more personal… but for many (even ex-Arch users) Manjaro is just a brainless ‘Get ISO, install and use’ scenario.Īlso (to quote a Ubuntu forum concept) if you’ve got the beans, it’s not a big problem. Fortunately they haven’t (yet) gone as low as to become the new Ubuntu. That’s not a criticism - they aim low, and try to keep other folks happy whilst they’re doing it. The big ones are nicely themed and include lots of ‘noob friendly’ bloat (like ‘manjaro-micro’ - which is basically micro with manjaro config files and ‘manjaro-rEFInd’ which is rEFInd with even more bloat and manjaro pictures ) So beyond the big 3, there are diminishing returns. I’ve watched a few youtubers saying how easy it is to drive your desktop from the keyboard, talking for half an hour with a million well remembered shortcuts to do stuff - woah, so many shortcuts!!! Woah, so much messing with difficult config scripts!!! Even starting to play around with Alacritty I learned the hard way that there’s nothing ‘simple’ about the tweaks that those clever youtubers toss off as a doddle. I think they’re more of a geeky option for minorites. It’s also been a long time since I bothered trying out Gnome… Beyond that, sorry - I personally never even tried xmonad, awesome, or dwm. It’s no surprise that people love KDE, and that Gnome is important, and many other folks view Xfce as the best lightweight alternative. There is already a pretty heavy workload - so any additions must be carefully weighed, and omissions (like 32 bit) also considered to lighten the load. ![]() ![]() This is a pretty easy question to answer. ![]()
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