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?

  • poVoq
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    11 year ago

    I don’t remember which ones exactly I was missing, but it was a very common occurrence that I had to work around with appimages or flatpacks (or AUR, but that caused dependency hell all the time).

    RPMfusion is a one time addition on system installation and the rest is available via Flathub, which is significantly better integrated in Fedora than Manjaro/Arch.

    • @Molecular0079
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      11 year ago

      RPMfusion is a one time addition on system installation

      But one that you have to manage with every new Fedora version. I’ve always had issues with RPMFusion packages not being ready in time for new Fedora releases or flat out causing conflicts with packages from the main Fedora repos.

      the rest is available via Flathub, which is significantly better integrated in Fedora than Manjaro/Arch.

      That is just simply not true. As long as you have the flatpak package installed, it works just like it does on Fedora.

      I get the feeling that maybe you just haven’t tried Arch in a while, but perhaps a lot has changed since the last time you used it.