Episode 05: The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Coming up in this episode we cover
1. Manjaro
2. the good the bad and the ugly
3. 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
Manjaro web page (https://manjaro.org/)
Manjaro wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjaro)
Manjaro Arm (https://manjaro.org/download/#ARM)
Roland Singer, Philip Muller & Guillaume Benoit co-founders (https://manjaro.org/team/)
Phillip Muller Announcment for first alpha (https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07402)
Announcement, Manjaro no longer just a distro, but now company (https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-is-taking-the-next-step/102105)
Forbes article - company announcement (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/09/08/manjaro-linux-just-made-a-massive-announcement-about-its-future/#3efcb0f836f9)
Announcing the switch to Free Office vs Libre Office by default (https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/testing-update-2019-07-29-kernels-xfce-4-14-pre3-haskell/96690)
Forbes article - office switch (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/08/03/manjaro-linux-team-responds-to-libreoffice-versus-freeoffice-in-upcoming-version-18-1/#477bfe5fbf46)
Archived forum (https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/)
New forum (https://forum.manjaro.org/)
Change in manjaro team composition (https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/change-in-manjaro-team-composition/155231)
Change of treasurer for Manjaro community funds (https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/change-of-treasurer-for-manjaro-community-funds/154888)
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 (https://github.com/davatorium/rofi)
Next episode we discuss topics impacting your user space
September's distro of the month is openSUSE tumbleweed (https://www.opensuse.org/)
Join us in two weeks when we return to the Linux User Space

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

Manjaro web page
Manjaro wikipedia page
Manjaro Arm
Roland Singer, Philip Muller & Guillaume Benoit co-founders
Phillip Muller Announcment for first alpha
Announcement, Manjaro no longer just a distro, but now company
Forbes article - company announcement
Announcing the switch to Free Office vs Libre Office by default
Forbes article - office switch
Archived forum
New forum
Change in manjaro team composition
Change of treasurer for Manjaro community funds

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

Email us

Late Night Linux

Support us at patreon.com/linuxuserspace

Join us on Telegram

Follow us on twitter

Check out Linux User Space on the web

App Focus

Rofi

This episode's app: Rofi

Next episode we discuss topics impacting your user space

September's distro of the month is openSUSE tumbleweed

Join us in two weeks when we return to the Linux User Space

Support Linux User Space