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[Rod J]

How is Manjaro?

I have switched from kubuntu 18.04 to KDE neon to have a more up-to-date KDE for the better global menu support with GTK applications, even though the integration is better it is not 100%. Definitely enjoying the latest KDE! Although, I have been wondering what life would be like with a system with the latest everything. Does the package management differ considerably from ubuntu?

I'm finding Manjaro very good and pretty stable for a rolling release. I'm using the Stable version mind you, that's 'bleeding edge' enough for me! I've been getting tired of reinstalling Kubuntu every two years or so (I like to go from LTS to LTS usually). So, I thought I'd try a rolling release for a change. I've done several major updates and a few small ones since installing it a couple of months ago. The updates do come through thick and fast, but it's not overwhelming me so far. Only a couple of minor glitches which disappeared after a reboot or another minor update.

The pacman package manager is pretty cool and quite technical with a lot of feedback on what it's doing. Updating/upgrading everything is as simple as issuing 'sudo pacman -Syu' in the terminal. Here is a page which gives a comparison between different package managers: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta

The AUR (Arch User Repository) is stuffed with just about everything you could want (that isn't in the standard repository). You use the AUR instead of having lots of PPA's for software that isn't in the standard repository.

Give Manjaro a try, it's a cool system and the forum is quite friendly too.

PS: I had to use Etcher to write the ISO to my flash drive as Unetbootin doesn't work with Manjaro ISO's correctly.

[MoonRise]

yep it is

this was supposed to be a quick reply to Moonrise on Nostalgia

woodsmoke

[exploder]

KDE Neon

[vinnywright]

KDE Neon

nice wallpaper

VINNY

[exploder]

Thank you! You can get the wallpaper here.

http://wall2born.com/the-best-4k-wal.../48318721.html

[MoonRise]

Nice indeed it is!

[exploder]

Made some small changes. I never imagined I would enjoy KDE so much!

[pemartins]

My KDE Neon is already in festivity mode:

[woodsmoke]

Pemartins.
Nice desktop and ...Lol I have a variant of that wallpaper w/o the tree to the right television machine also!
Very festive!
and playing Christmas music using Clementine and other players also!
lots fun!
woodlikesitsmoke

[Rod J]

@pemartins What theme is that? It looks a little steampunk'ish.

[woodsmoke]

woody's christmas wally and Blue on Blue

I don't want even to try to compete with Pmartin's festive wallpaper but he inspired me to put up my present wallpaper on the work computer and a pic of my final build Woody's lastest and bestest "Blue on Blue" wall computer which is at least bright blue! .

ONE THING THAT WAS ILLUSTRATED by Nick was that "as sophisticated as he was", he didn't care "which side of the tracks" people came from as long as they were good people and you can see some of them in the image... maybe that is one reason why I've always been able to get along with just about anybody... people are people and it is always Christmas to the ol' woodsmoker.



I have spent at least part of my Christmas with Nick and Nora since I first saw the film when i was a kid. so i't not so festive as it were but it means a lot to me at Christmas time.



woodythhanksPmartinsmoke

[pemartins]

@woodsmoke awesome!

@Rod J yes it's Steampunk indeed, I'm using Steampunk's Plasma (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/998744/) and Aurorae (https://store.kde.org/p/1002654) themes on top of KDE Neon's default theme. I just added a couple of buttons to Steampunk's Aurorae theme for keepabove and shade and modified the sticky (alldesktops) button.
I attached them to this post, if someone has Steampunks Aurorae theme installed and wants those extra butons just unpack the zip and copy the 3 files to ~/.local/share/aurorae/themes/SteampunK/

[woodsmoke]

Pemartins

aww. my blushes.
woody

[deanr]

Me? I like it nice and clean:

[Don B. Cilly]

Me too :·)
Except, some sort of system monitor to let me know what's going on, I must have. I just tried to make it as unobtrusive as possible, but informative at the same time.
And xplanetFX, it's just too pretty.