Coming up in this episode we cover
- Manjaro
- the good the bad and the ugly
- and Leo brings us an app that you will just love, if you lived in the 90's
Welcome to the Linux User Space
Manjaro
Basic Distro Details
- Base System - ARCH
- 3 repositories to choose from
- Unstable - Bleeding Edge ~ roughly 3 days behind ARCH
- Testing - Gone through initial test phase from unstable
- Stable - only packages deemed stable by dev team, which means generally 1-3 weeks of lag between ARCH and release.
- Desktop Environment - A beautiful XFCE, where they unapologetically focus their attention, and it shows. GNOME, KDE
- Spins
- Awesome, Bspwm, Budgie, Cinnamon, I3, LXDE, LXQt, Mate, and Openbox**
- File Manager - Based on DE you choose
- Package Manager - Pacman on Command Line and Pamac GTK & QT for a GUI interface
- User Interface - DE Based
- System & Service Manager - systemd
- Display Manager - GDM, SDDM, LightDM, you can swap them around if you like
- Window Manager - Xorg is there as well as Wayland if you aren't on Nvidia, still not stable yet
Housekeeping
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App Focus
Rofi
This episode's app: Rofi
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