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 - ARCH3 repositories to choose fromUnstable - 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, KDESpinsAwesome, 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
