As Chris Titus once said “why install Manjaro when you can install arch" I used to daily manjaro but stuff broke and if you do decide to use manjaro don’t use the AUR if you don’t know what your doing
Tried getting RDP working ~a month ago and it was eating too much time (probably related to Nvidia peccadilloes,) so I fell back to sunshine over VPN. Looking forward to trying this, thanks for the share.
I suspect it has something to do with them deleting the pacman lock file in their system package update scripts to run a nested instance of pacman before while the first instance is still running…
All to avoid their users needing to manually run a few changes that the Arch Devs have labeled as need manual intervention.
I have Arch on my notebook Sway and on my PC Endeavour OS first SSD Gnome, second KDE. Instalations was without any problems, minimal apps, no any problem. Recommend!!! (Best os, simple to install, very good community, maintenance and always up to date.
Endeavour is great, but not always smooth sailing.
However, I also don’t have the time to be always configuring my OS and just want something that works well out of the box.
You might have some of that ahead. I had to dive into configs to get things like trackpad scrolling and gestures work on my laptop. I eventually switched to Fedora on that machine when an update broke the bootloader and I couldn’t be arsed to fix it.
Your issue seems to be outdated packages, so I wouldn’t recommend distro hopping(especially to something arch based) for just that reason. Look into workarounds for those packages in mint itself. In the worst case scenario there’s also the option of compiling from source.
I wouldn’t recommend distro hopping to arch without some high level understanding of the different moving parts of the OS. EndeavourOS has given me almost no issues but when things break(like grub a while back) you have to be OK with touching parts of the system that just work and are taken for granted on distros like mint. It’s why I don’t consider anything arch based friendly to a “noob user”.
If you’re a “noob user” who wants to learn more you can try endeavourOS, that’s kind of the spirit of it.
This depends on browser support. I recommend bypassing the issue altogether by using a password manager like Bitwarden (a free as in freedom SaaS) or KeepassXC (a program for using .kdbx password databases which can be synced between devices by you in any way you want, like Nextcloud or Dropbox).
You should prepare yourself to be the car enthusiast of computer users when thinking of using Linux at all, especially for gaming. You are the car but of computing when you dip into Arch based or other similar distributions. You will spend time looking at parts of the OS most people take for granted and can spend as much time as you want fiddling with tiny bits of the OS to tube it to whatever you want. So really it depends on what experience you want.
One of the great things about Linux is picking your distro. However, I’d suggest sticking with the latest version of Ubuntu desktop if you want to game.
Way more users means problems get solved there first (after Steam Deck, of course). File system support is good, and while I don’t use NTFS partitions anymore, they worked fine for me. The user count also means larger communities of support.
If down the road you want to branch out, go for it! But play it safe for now. If you’re used to Windows, install WinTile and Dash-to-Panel extensions in GNOME to make things familiar.
KDE is better than GNOME for Windows familiarity. GNOME feels like it’s trying to emulate the experience of MacOS while KDE feels like it’s trying to give a Windows-like experience.
That is a classical windows mentality. “gnome is cheap macos clone”. Gnome tries just to create a minimal and distraction free and polished DE. KDE tries to bulldose as many features as possible and that sacrifices stability and UX. Analogy would be similar to having a leaky water pipe in the roof. Gnome would fix the leaking pipe meanwhile KDE would give you a bucket and a few towels to clean that up in different ways.
I am heavily considering switching to Linux aswell (though from Windows). I guess I would just spin up a VM if I need to run something I can’t get to work on bare matal Linux.
Yeah, dual booting meant Windows for me. I was just more comfortable with it. On the other hand some people have something to do compared to me at that time. Taking the time to learn how to do sth. on Linux isn’t always possible.
Dualbooting is a great start for most people who want to switch but USB sticks have cheap storage controllers so they will die insanly fast if you put that kind of load on them permanentely and it will probably be slower than a HDD.
I thought about dualboot using two SSDs, one for linux, one for Windows and a VM on linux using the physical Windows SSD. Don’t know if it is really possible though…
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