[HLUG] Manjaro Linux with Cinnamon - promising

[Julian Robbins]

Yes I saw one of his reviews I think he must spend ages on them

Do you ever get problems using arch packages from AUR? Or I guess this
would only happen if you use fairly significant parts of the infrastructure
rather than desktop applications..

Julian
On 14 Feb 2015 16:00, "Ann" <catether at talktalk.net> wrote:

> Manjaro is now my only distro using xfce, haven't done any distro hopping
> since discovering it. Have you looked at any of Spatry's guides and reviews
> on youtube regarding Manjaro. We have a facebook group for Arch and Manjaro
> users if you want to join:
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/639779336140723/
> I use lots of the AUR packages which I install via the terminal using
> yaourt... just so easy.
> regards
> Ann
>
> On 13/02/15 19:35, Julian Robbins wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I played with Manjaro but not with the default XFCE desktop or KDE but
>> used
>> one of their community versions that adds Cinnamon.
>>
>> Works really well. Smooth, fast, (faster than any OS I tried with same
>> apps), lots of available packages, and up to date packages - what not to
>> like.
>>
>> I haven't installed as my main os as yet, but I can see a time that I
>> could. The only potential downside is a few odd apps that are unly
>> packaged
>> as a deb or a rpm package , although even some of these have been
>> repackaged and available on Arch's repositories (also usually available
>> with Manjaro too)
>>
>> Anyone else played with manjaro ??
>>
>> The reviews are also very good recently.
>>
>> Julian
>>
>
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