Episode 05: The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Coming up in this episode we cover Manjaro the good the bad and the ugly and Leo brings us an app that you will just love, if you lived in the 90's Welcome to the Linux User Space Manjaro Manjaro web page Manjaro wikipedia page Manjaro Arm Roland Singer, Philip Muller & Guillaume Benoit co-founders Phillip Muller Announcment for first alpha Announcement, Manjaro no longer just a distro, but now company Forbes article - company announcement Announcing the switch to Free Office vs Libre Office by default Forbes article - office switch Archived forum New forum Change in manjaro team composition Change of treasurer for Manjaro community funds Basic Distro Details Base System - ARCH 3 repositories to choose from Unstable - Bleeding Edge ~ roughly 3 days behind ARCH Testing - Gone through initial test phase from unstable Stable - only packages deemed stable by dev team, which means generally 1-3 weeks of lag between ARCH and release. Desktop Environment - A beautiful XFCE, where they unapologetically focus their attention, and it shows. GNOME, KDE Spins Awesome, Bspwm, Budgie, Cinnamon, I3, LXDE, LXQt, Mate, and Openbox** File Manager - Based on DE you choose Package Manager - Pacman on Command Line and Pamac GTK & QT for a GUI interface User Interface - DE Based System & Service Manager - systemd Display Manager - GDM, SDDM, LightDM, you can swap them around if you like Window Manager - Xorg is there as well as Wayland if you aren't on Nvidia, still not stable yet Housekeeping Email us Late Night Linux Support us at patreon.com/linuxuserspace Join us on Telegram Follow us on twitter Check out Linux User Space on the web App Focus Rofi This episode's app: Rofi Next episode we discuss topics impacting your user space September's distro of the month is openSUSE tumbleweed Join us in two weeks when we return to the Linux User Space