I went beyond Ubuntu. Any recommendations?

I have just installed Manjaro Linux for a few days, and loved it.

• Xfce is the default desktop environment
• GRUB more beautiful by default
• Proprietary drivers are no hassle
• Even deciding the partitions, or swap, is no hassle. (But it chose ext4 rather than btrfs.)

The last time I tried several distros was some ten years ago, like OpenSuSE, Fedora, Sabayon, Elementary, but never Arch or Manjaro.

I also noticed several different things

• pacman instead of apt / apt-get
• AUR git repositories: I started with pamac, but later learnt about yay.
• I found this guide.

Otherwise, I can install all I wanted.

https://www.polv.cc/post/2020/09/xubuntu-customization

Comments

[archlinuxlove]

Manjaro is just awesome, cutting edge, and all the latest software.

[Pacharapol Withayasakpunt]

Really?

Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Apr 14

Manjaro won't let me install pgadmin4-5.1. It is breaking the promise of always up-to-date?

[archlinuxlove]

have you tried the yay?

[Snehit Sah]

Manjaro holds back packages from the Arch Repos. To get up to date packages, Arch is the way to go. On Manjaro, packages land a few days later.