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What is your unbiased opinion on Manjaro? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am a Linux noobie and have only used Mint for around six months now. While I have definitely learned a lot, I don't have the time to always be doing crazy power user stuff and just want something that works out of the box. While I love Mint, I want to try out other decently easy to use distros as well, specifically not based on Ubuntu, so no Pop OS. Is Manjaro a possibly good distro for me to check out?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've distro-hopped quite a bit. I used Manjaro for about 4-5 months. I really liked it actually. I did end up having some problems after an update, and even with some community help, I wasn't able to fix it. After that, I decided to try Arch and ended up loving and using it for the past 5 or so years.

If you're new to Linux and insist on using an Arch based distro, Manjaro is probably a good choice for you, but if you have used Linux for a while and are comfortable with system configuration, I really couldn't recommend Arch enough.

Both communities are very well established and responsive, but Arch is on its own level. The Arch wiki is really an amazing thing, and aside from some gatekeepers, the majority of the Arch community is happy to help.

I know you said that you don't want to be doing "crazy power user stuff" all the time, but really once you get everything set up the way you like it (it took me maybe 2-3 hours after installation), you can basically leave configuration and use it just like Manjaro and have -- in my experience -- a more stable system.

Up to you, but you seem like you might be comfortable in Linux already, so I'd recommend just going for Arch.

[–] chockblock 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does Arch have drive encryption integrated? Or do you have to use LUKS like manjaro and decrypt the drive before booting into it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What distros are there that have drive encryption but don't require decrypting the drive while booting? Isn't LUKS pretty much the standard disk encryption for all Linux distributions?

[–] chockblock 1 points 1 year ago

I thought I heard of a Linux distro where your login password decrypts the drive like a Mac does

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nope, all manual. If Arch had something integrated then Manjaro would have it.