This is a podcast focused on connecting user space with the community. We invite you to join us as we explore the many things that impact you, the user. We’ll experiment with the Distros and Desktop Environments that we all love, we’ll discuss the current hardware and technology impacting our lives and we’ll also talk about the different topics affecting the community. All along the way we’ll share stories and anecdotes about our journey through the Linux User Space. Episodes drop every other Monday.
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.
- 3 repositories to choose from
- 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**
- Spins
- 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
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App Focus
Rofi
This episode's app: Rofi
Next episode we discuss topics impacting your user space
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