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Re: Manjaro

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On Sat, 8 Oct 2016 21:32:08 -0400
Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> wrote:

> On 2016-10-08, ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 08 Oct 2016 16:15:03 -0400, 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.  
> >
> > Bah humbug ... not native Mate version. :)
> >
> > (I've heard good things about Manjaro and I know Arch is solid --
> > just more work than I want to put into it at this time.)  
> 
> This is pretty simple. That's why I am saying I think this might be
> good replacement for Ubuntu / Mint. xfce is really nice. A gnome 2
> guy should like it just fine. And you get to learn Pacman... :)  No
> rpm or dpkg. I have a whole new set of command options to learn. You
> might like rolling... :)
> 

pacman is fast. simple. efficient ... there is also yaourt which is
wrapper around pacman and AUR. It uses same options as pacman to
simplify things.
I forgot when I last used external repo on Manjaro.

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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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