On 01/24/2017 11:31 AM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 01/24/2017 11:07 AM, John Andersen wrote:
On on of my desktop systems, I've switched to Manjaro, a rolling Archlinux release, with KDE/Plasma5 and I couldn't be happier. Amazing.
On my laptop, I did a fresh install of Leap 42.2. Had I not been upgrading the laptop to an SSD anyway, I would not have upgraded from 13.2 to 42.2. But since a fresh install was in the card I decided to give 42.2 a try.
It is sufficiently old computer, and my needs or it are sufficiently mundane that I ran into no major problems, and 42.2 is running fine.
Had the fresh install not gone fine, it would now be running Manjaro.
Hi John,
So why wouldn't you continue to use Manjaro?
Also, what does Manjaro provide that Arch itself doesn't?
Regards, Lew
This particular laptop has always run Opensuse. Since the Pleistocene. Manjaro was Plan B for this laptop if 42.2 failed. It didn't. So it stays. I didn't want Manjaro on it because I have a paid Vmware License on this laptop that I rely on for development work, and Manjaro is not a supported VMWare host, but opensuse is. On my other machine.... I have a desktop that runs Manjaro, I like it, I continue to use it. Manjaro paints over the Arch warts, provides a nice clean installer and package manager and a helpful and responsive Development team (rather than Arch's arrogant, combative, and petulant bunch). Its a Rolling Release. Install once and roll along on any of three different branches, Stable (that's me), testing, unstable. It comes with a great tool to install and switch between kernels. Manjaro has two main Desktop Environments that they directly support XFCE and KDE/Plasma as well as several Community editions that they Host (Deepin, Mint, i3, Cinnamon, yadda, yadda). These are derivatives, but they get a lot of support and co-hosting from Manjaro. If you got some disk space, maybe throw VirtualBox on your Opensuse machine and play with it. www.manjaro.org -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org