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Re: Manjaro

From	Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Manjaro
Date	2016-10-09 23:54 +0000
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On 2016-10-09, Silver Slimer <> wrote:
>
> On 2016-10-09 11:16 AM, Jim Polaski wrote:
>> On 2016-10-09, Silver Slimer <> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 2016-10-09 6:57 AM, Takuya Saitoh wrote:
>>>> On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 6:24:15 AM UTC+9, Silver Slimer 
>>>> wrote: On 2016-10-08 4:15 PM, Marek Novotny wrote:
>>>>>>> I've been playing with Manjaro since last night. Aside
>>>>>>> from anything bad happening I'm pretty happy with this so
>>>>>>> far. I started with it on my desktop System 76 machine
>>>>>>> and liked it enough to put it on my main laptop, the
>>>>>>> M4800. So far I'd even opine that this might be a better
>>>>>>> starter Linux than Mint or Ubuntu. I'll have to use it
>>>>>>> every day for a while to form a solid opinion but so far
>>>>>>> this is impressing me.
>>>> 
>>>> It was the first Linux that was able to detect all of the
>>>> hardware on this laptop of mine so I respect it. It looks like
>>>> a pretty decent rolling distribution and I should give it
>>>> another try though I have to wonder why it doesn't have a Gnome
>>>> flavour.
>>>> 
>>>>> It does have a Gnome flavor:
>>>> 
>>>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/manjarolinux/files/community/
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 
> Manjaro is what I recommend people who cannot deal with the CLI
>>>>> for installation and administration...
>>> 
>>> Yeah, I noticed and am downloading it now. I'd love to see what
>>> their community ended up doing with Gnome.
>>> 
>>> - -- Silver Slimer Islam is a disease Gab.AI: @silverslimer
>> 
>> I downloaded it as well. I've never used it so I'm curious.
>
> Well, I tried it a few hours ago. Whether I try to boot it in standard
> or non-free mode, it doesn't even make it to the desktop. This
> hardware really doesn't like Linux.
>
> - -- 
> Silver Slimer
> Islam is a disease
> Gab.AI: @silverslimer

Same problem here but I am trying to run it in a VM. I'll try on bare 
hardware when I get a chance. All I get is a black screen with no login.

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Manjaro Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-08 16:15 -0400
  Re: Manjaro Se7en <se7en@firemail.cc> - 2016-10-08 20:17 +0000
  Re: Manjaro Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-08 20:18 +0000
    Re: Manjaro Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-08 16:31 -0400
      Re: Manjaro Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-08 20:38 +0000
  Re: Manjaro Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-10-08 22:28 +0200
    Re: Manjaro Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-08 16:39 -0400
  Re: Manjaro Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-08 17:24 -0400
    Re: Manjaro Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-10-09 03:57 -0700
      Re: Manjaro Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-10-09 15:09 +0200
      Re: Manjaro Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-09 10:03 -0400
        Re: Manjaro Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-09 15:16 +0000
          Re: Manjaro Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-09 12:55 -0400
            Re: Manjaro Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-09 15:28 -0400
            Re: Manjaro Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-09 23:54 +0000
  Re: Manjaro ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-10-08 23:16 +0000
    Re: Manjaro Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-08 21:32 -0400
      Re: Manjaro ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-10-09 02:05 +0000
      Re: Manjaro Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-10-09 07:52 +0200
        Re: Manjaro Tattoo Vampire <sitting@this.computer> - 2016-10-09 12:34 +0000
          Re: Manjaro ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-10-09 12:44 +0000

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