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Re: Manjaro

From ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Manjaro
Date 2016-10-09 02:05 +0000
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On Sat, 08 Oct 2016 21:32:08 -0400, Marek Novotny 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... :)

I've run Arch in the past and used Pacman -- and ran Xfce when I used 
Vector Linux. I'm happy where I am with Linux Mint. But I am thankful 
that (I believe) a guy from Arch is the one who started the Mate project.

-- 
Zero tolerance for iCultists and WinDrones

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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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