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Which looks very different if you choose any of the other themes. We have tons of choices, and each of us decides. Some may even want theirs to look like Windows.

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$66pm for uncapped fibre 300/150 Mbps in South Africa

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Manjaro - because everyone else seems to only be voting for Arch itself here. Manjaro is actually very stable, but I did sometimes have some trouble with AUR updates clashing. I like it because it stays relatively up to date and I don’t have to do any major reinstalls or upgrades. I’ve been on it for a few years and never have lost data or was not able to get it started (even if it did need a manual kick-start once or twice). Like any distro, over time you become savvy around what to use and what to avoid.

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I thought we’re supposed to just mention what we’re using and why. Should we also tell others why they should not use what they’re using? That could start the distro wars all over again, just when we all became united in our differences ;-)

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For me, it was much like iPhone vs Android. I’ve twice been back to owning an iPhone and have kept leaving because of the more closed ecosystem. The freedom to explore, take apart, modify, hack, learn, etc. I don’t do a lot of that, but it is nice to try things out. So in summary for me its the philosophy behind it.

Open Konsole named Profiles, with own identification and a custom command, using a keyboard shortcut (youtu.be)

This solves a problem I had with wanting to quickly start up a Distrobox container using a shortcut key, but also being able to differentiate it visually from my normal Konsole terminal screen I’d use on Manjaro Linux. It is extremely quick and the named Konsole Profile has a different colour as well as a different window...

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Sorry about that - I somehow chopped the last letter off - have fixed it now, but it is at youtu.be/g7x_ngYtj6Y

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KDE - using it with Manjaro now, but also used it on Mint before that.

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That yes but I also discovered the quality of floss makes a big difference. I always used to choose cheapest until I discovered wax coated floss that really made a world if difference. No more breaking, shredding, stuck floss.

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We’d probably need to qualify this with “bad compared to what”. I can’t complain, as it does its job, and I’ve been able to tweak what I needed to. As I don’t tinker with it every week, I keep a sticky note rolled up on my desktop, or I quickly use ‘cheat systemd’ to remember some key examples.

I was getting really long start up time earlier this year (like 19 mins before the desktop was fully responding) and after trying everything else I tried ditching BTRFS and reverting my /home drive back to ext4. Turns out BTRFS start and checks was killing my boot times. Now, as fast as anything.

The following have been my saviours though in identifying boot times: journalctl -b -p err systemd-analyze blame --user systemd-analyze blame

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