Manjaro Makes Desktop Linux Look GOOD! 

When a distro is "reviewed" and "demonstrated", it seems 80% of the video is spent on installation. Personally, I'd like to see how the "work flow" is like. How does the desktop/distro go about letting users customize settings, themes, icons, the panel, etc. What is it like to actually use the desktop, etc. What are the default applications and how do they look/feel.

Manjaro's theming, custom applications, and general customizations have always been really nice. Distro itself is prone to breakages and ran by people that have proven themselves untrustworthy, unfortunately.

that software center is pamac, the in house manjaro software center, and I actually really like it, i only use the terminal nowadays, but i still have it installed just in case on my arch machine. it's not perfect, but it's waaay better than most other software centers, which are the buggiest programs I have ever tried on linux

Just notice: Software center on Manjaro by default it's not same as Gnome Software, but actually GUI for pamac.

Joe is proprietary coffee. We only want FOSS coffee up in here

The software center in this release of Manjaro Gnome looks like Pamac rather than the Gnome Software center

for the looks, i think the Tilling Layout is a tweaked version of Material Shell

Really like this new trend of distros supporting multiple layout presets (traditional single-panel, dock + top bar, gnome-like, etc). "There's no such thing as the perfect sauce, just perfect sauces" -Howard Moskowitz

I really like Manjaro. I think it's the way to go when you want to introduce someone to Arch based distributions.

15:15 I believe that is Pamac, not gnome software center.

It's not Manjaro that does the best gnome .. it's the gnome extensions

As good as GNOME is on Manjaro right out of the box, nothing beats a clean GNOME experience on Fedora for me. I still use Manjaro XFCE on my RP4 though, I really like and support the Manjaro project

Can someone please tell me what's up with the devs of Manjaro? Why is everyone hating on them? What they exactly did? I remember they made Vivaldi default in Manjaro instead of Firefox.

I've been using Manjaro for about 3-4 years now. It has been great.

i have been using your dtos for 5 months now and really want to thank you you did a great job

Thanks for always providing the latest Linux distro update news, its hard to find that somewhere else

Famous last words: "There is no harm in turning on snaps" :)

I'm using Manjaro Gnome for months already and it's the best I've ever used

Manjaro Gnome is great to play games. GPU drivers are installed in one click, gnome-shell is optimized very well, and it's all arch so new technology are frequent.

Best distro I found for using on a Macbook Pro, handles the HDPI very well out the box. No breakages after updates etc... Love the theming.

Currently using exactly this - it's a great experience.

Man Manjaro has been my absolute steady favourite Linux distro for years now.

Hey DT, What do you think of Fedora Silverblue?

The T-shirt thou wert wearing, made me laugh.

I've had a bad experience with Manjaro plasma 3 years ago. The GUI elements were buggy right from the start. Testing now the latest version. It's been 3 days, and I'm impressed so far. Being impressed with a Linux distro is a big thing from my perspective because in my experience, 9/10 distros failed right out of the box. There was always something not working as it should. At least the infamous screen tearing with Nvidia cards. This time no st with the default (minimal) installation. Menus and customizing options do what they supposed to, except 2 failures with system monitor customization and notifier from the systray (happened only once). Resources usage is actually quite conservative given the bells and whistles of a GUI it offers. That's a very difficult task to achieve. The CPU scheduler seems to be much more efficient than my daily driver Windows. Default setup drops the frequency of my 5600X below 3 GHz (2.2-2.4), which never happens on Windows where it is 3.6 at minimum. Setting up the min. value to 5% makes no difference whatsoever in Win. Man would think that these drops would have an impact on peak performance, but it's not the case. Geekbench showed expected scores. Monitor switch off on idle works without problems. Setting it up is like in Windows which was problematic in the most distros I've tested before. Watching RU-vid videos is not CPU intensive. Not sure if that's Mozilla to "blame" or Manjaro. Maybe both? So far, so good. I'll give it a month before choosing it as my daily driver.

It's a shame the manjaro devs are kinda unprofessional. I stopped using their distro after many problems and switched to vanilla arch. Edit: It's been a few years since I used the distro, maybe they have improved.

I see they are trying to add some of the Cosmic Desktop options from Pop! OS. Nice addition

I've installed Manjaro maybe 10 or more times, and it's always broken (this happened ~5 years ago). It's a really good distro, but also easily breakable-like any other Arch-based distro. Nothing is as stable as Debian.

I see that Manjaro went out of its way to customize GNOME but I actually grew to apreciate what Ubuntu 22.04LTS has presented. 💪

Such a beautiful distro. Thanks for the video.

That's one of the things I really liked with Manjaro when I was using it was the package manager. I'd still be most likely using it too, other than they had a few crap updates late last year that broke my system. I wasn't impressed so ended up trying some other distro's instead. While I generally like KDE - this one looks fairly interesting. And if I ever go back I'll give it a whirl.

Default Manjaro always does look good, I will give it that. Not sure that I buy into all that light/dark universal theming whoha, but if you like it, seems great. When I first started using Linux I hated Gnome, but of the past few months I have actually been enjoying the experience (Fedora 35/36 though). Gnome isn't the most customise, but then I suppose I realised I didn't customise my system all that much, so there isn't all that much point running KDE etc!!

Thanks for showing us what Manjaro is. I'd heard of it, but I hadn't actually seen it yet. So, watching DT, helps me feel so much more confident and knowledgeable (in an overview way) about Linux, its distros, and how to get started in some distro. Again, I'm still new to Linux, but I plan to move from Windows to Linux, or (let's say, better to be honest) start using Linux here & there until I feel comfortable enough to move away from all of Windows bugs, crashing, never fixed OS problems, etc. Even right now, my ALT+TAB doesn't work, and my taskbar won't pull-up in some situations -- because a prior update screwed shit up.

Pamac is one thing Manjaro does really great

Manjaro is a really good distro, but i have a problem with the gnome extensions manager… i cant download any other extensions there like blur my shell for example. There are some extensions already installed by the system but when Im searching for some other extensions it shows me only the extensions, which are already installed by default… anyone who could help?

Manjaro runs very cool on my laptop. This fact probably applies to other Arch based-distros. I didn't notice that behavior the first days I ran Manjaro then it hit me: the laptop fan was almost off, never going medium to high speed like when running Debian/Ubuntu-based distro I used to run.

Looks like Manjaro has improved since I last used it. Previously, they had made so many modifications to their GNOME edition that they introduced many deteriorating UX breaking changes (that Arch doesn't struggle with). These were not fixed with updates, either. They'd simply not be present on a fresh install if you happened to reinstall. I might just chuck this back on my Surface Pro. Not sure yet, though.

I love manjaro gnome. I've distro hopped around and its just the best experience out the box.

I'm glad this came up, I've tried to switch to Manjaro KDE Plasma, but for some reason, it has many issues on my HP laptop, so I had to go back to Manjaro Gnome. It just runs better on my laptop, so... Gnome team, I guess

Manjaro gets all the hate, vague claims of "it broke for me x years ago idk maybe it was me" and other nonsense. I've been using it for years and sometimes left iti for months without updating my laptop, it's never broken for me once.

Had Manjaro running on a bare metal system. It is a really nice setup. My problem always was that if you did not update often at some point the system would break on a update. Also, I don't like the pacman syntax.

I would love to use Manjaro but it can't pick up my Wifi Nic at all on my laptop. I have tried everything I could with support forum but nothing seems to work. I am a super n00b when it comes to linux. I wish Manjaro was like Mint OS cause it picks up my Wifi Nic with no issues.

Please i'm using Manjaro and when I connect My Laptop with HDMI it's not working 😢 help me please

Migrated to Gnome today from Xfce and maaaaaan oh maaaan does it look clean!

Excellent video Derek!!!!!

Wow that is a beautiful gnome desktop with some sweet options out of the box even a tiling option . Thank you for showing it off.

Hi! Thanks a lot of many good videos! I did try Manjaro KDE Plasma on a modern PC lately and was very pleased. Rght now I run KDE Neon for my production PCs and after one yesr still very happy with it (get some errors on on pc now on boot but it still works). My question is is it safe to use majaro KDe as daily work system, without beening advanced Linux user ? Is there no hickups errors and crashes ? I did try Suse as well, impressed but after one day it cant boot anmore :) so it not for me . Thanks in advance and keep up good work! Cheers Paul

The touchpad gestures are simply awesome on manjaro gnome right now

Manjaro is my first go at an Arch based Distro. I plan on becoming a Manjaro superuser and having a go at installing Arch after that. Getting to grips with PAMAC and PACMAN should be pretty helpful. Apart from Fedora workstation, this is my only other non Ubuntu based distro too.

Can you or do you already have a video tutorial on setting up a streaming setup with Linux? I appreciate it very much as I'm finding it difficult to work out what equipment is best to buy and get working.

The software center is pamac-all and it's on the AUR

Does the Manjaro installer give the option to have @ and @home on btrfs to use Timeshift as well?

Finally you get to review the distribution that I've chosen and like a lot, left windows for manjaro gnome and steam also works pretty well...

Manjaro was my first arch-based distro i love it :)

The settings on Pamac are a great addition, upgrades usually break database management systems so having the ability to downgrade as well as to exclude from upgrade is on point.

I love the tiling system, Material Shell has been my Go-to for my work laptop environment

*looks over at the empty flash drive in his charger bag for the thinkpad* Would you look at that? I just bought me a flash drive a little while ago.

What is your desktop hardware configuration?

Something utterly frustrating with the latest Linux releases - the notification area. Viber used to sit nicely there and open on doublelcick .. now it shows a small pop-up with "Open Viber" option and Exit. And not only Viber - Telegram, Slack, etc.. I know there are free and opensource messengers but the world doesn't work this way unfortunately

I have Manjaro Gnome and in it's recent major update, bluetooth is disabled on startup where it started enabled before the update. Is there a way to re-enable bluetooth at startup and connect to my bluetooth speakers automatically?

So, i have xfce. Either i havnt figured out customizing or i shoulda downloaded gnome or kde to be able to customize my apps bar like apple.

I found the GNOME edition was a little buggy for my tastes, though I admit it was the live media installation that gave me trouble specifically. I think it looks way better than Pop!, and has many other benefits such as the software it ships with, but Pop! felt really stable if more barebones. If it gets some spit and shine like the KDE flavour I'm sure I'll be even more tempted to switch :) I'd love to get access to the Pacman/AUR software!

I like the t-shirt where did u get it from?

When I run lsb_release I get the following: LSB Version: n/a Other than lack of information, is this an issue? I initially installed Manjaro i3 edition and put qtile ontop of that, idk what bugs I have nor how to use journald, but I am aware that's what you use to check bugs and errors system wide.

I think you were not able to drag dependencies window vertically, is it persistent for many apps or for just that particular window

As stated by @Gunzinator thanks very much for keeping us informed! Excellent video like always!

KRunner works with Manjaro if using KDE-Desktop? I know it while using kUbuntu and i lovi it

I wish they could run on Risc-V, because right now we are stuck with what the Risc-V SBC comes with out of the box.

I love Manjaro, it's pretty much my goto distribution nowadays. Unfortunately it's still a little hit or miss with Nvidia drivers (Ubuntu works better in my experience), but otherwise Manjaro is rock-solid.

With manjaro breaking more than regular arch and having some extra overhead and delay, i really don't see the reason to use it anymore over endeavourOS aside from the latter not having a built-in GUI frontend for the package manager (that's notoriously buggy not to mention)

DT I'm genuinely asking a question, how do you make money, does youtube cover for it ? or do you have any side project

I’m gonna have to try that out. This is the first time gnome has actually looked really good to me.

I really liked Manjaro but the problem was that it broke my 3 monitor setup continuously. And sometimes it would happen a week later or an hour later I would lose my ability to have all screens show up. I switched to popOS! And so far I haven't been disappointed. I actually like it so much I quit Windows on the spot haven't booted into it in weeks. WTG PopOS! I've been really impressed with it.

man, I think I know my weekend project. I am currently running plasma, but this looks beautiful!

This has been my favorite distro so far, but when my Hackintosh performs better on a 6600xt compared to Manjaro on my 3060ti with proprietary drivers as far as the GPU utilization goes, they still have work to do with gnome and plasma. Plasma was a good start in the right direction, but even the stock gnome themes feel janky at times and smooth the other 85%. I'd like to think I have my distro configured properly, just giving the benefit of the doubt. Gnome still lacks consistency in the smoothness efficiency department. My Windows and Hackintosh OSs just run so much smoother consistently, rarely do I notice any jankiness.. The other thing is, I've read that many theme developers have complained how challenging it is to make themes for gnome/manjaro. So couple incorrectly developed themes with the existing inconsistencies. Hope to see the GUI improved on.

My favorite theming XFCE with Endeavor OS, GNOME with POP_OS And KDE theming myself with Manjaro

Manjaro Gnome is so so beautiful 😍❤️

This video came up right as I downloaded Manjaro 21.3 to write to a USB drive, so I can boot in and repartition my existing dualboot system with a UI (so I can remove the Windows portion of this dualboot, making it...not a dualboot.) I find that funny.

Manjaro xfce vs EndeavourOS xfce which one is better for performance and which one is more lightweight?

DT, I have been using gnome for 5 years ago and I have to say it has been being stable and amazingly great since long time ago; even before Ubuntu took it some years ago in order to replace the Unity desktop environment.

Im running amd hardware and currently running pop os with sway + waybar. Is it worth the switch if I have a lowspec dual core cpu 4gb ram? Its one of the toshiba satalite laptops, thinking of going with the sway edition of manjaro to keep resources low.

i Do Dual Boot Using the BIOS,Fedora,or Windows,whateaver on Disk 1 and Ubunto no Disk 2,if i wanna Fedora,or Windows , i go to the BIOS and Do a Boot Sequence,First Boot Device - Fedora/or Windows/Or other LInux,Disk 1,and if i wanna Ubuntu,i do on the Bios Again,and First Boot Device - Ubuntu,Disk 2.......no more Grub breaking the dual Boot....

Manjaro was my Linux distro of choice, until I saw one of your videos using Arco.

the lookout switcher has reduced the options to only 4. looks like manjaro devs are really starting to get the gist of the whole GNOME philosophy.

Obee Wan Kenoby.... I need Help. Why do so many Ubuntu Derivatives only post Ubuntu in the boot menu. How can I edit / rename - the name Ubuntu - into something that helps me differentiate the drives !!!! Foolish me - I have five different drives.

Manjaro does the bestest of all the desktops! Even of that generably non-palatable Gnome 3 or Gnome Shell or by what name it goes this week.

I've got a problem, no keyboard shortcuts are working on any linux distribution , neither does the super key, some people say that it might be because of the fact that my keyboard has a "microdia" chipset, does anyone know how I could fix this?(It doesn't work on a live cd either)

I'm loving gnome with Wayland, under arch though. I also have Plasma on the same computer due to btrfs switch :P. love it.

The add/remove software application is actuall pamac gui, not gnome software

I use Manjaro as a daily driver on my PC and laptop. I will be honest the only time it "broke" on me was A) when it crashed because time shift filled my drive cause it was too small and B) when I improperly shut the PC down during an update. It is great otherwise. The dev "untrustworthiness" hype is overplayed just read the comments and the one ytber video it's he-said she-said.

I have really evolved to like GNOME. My formerly most hated DE ever 😅

Tried the "full" iso and... looks a very decent gnome experience on Arch. However, like most distros, its bloated with junk I don't need. Then tried the "minimal" version and it felts a great gnome vanilla experience until getting issues due to missing gnome dependencies. Meanwhile, my time quota for arch based distro hopping for 2022 is over... no strong arguments to move yet.

hey dt what arcolinux do you pick when you install arcolinux?

Cool review but the software center is not the gnome software, it's pamac

Good morning, can anyone help me!!! My Manjaro gnome freezes as soon as it hibernates, have swap 8gb!!!??!! Thanks

I bet you couldn't live in this DE for a month.

Sad day DT did not use htop. GVDT.

The software center i think is the best love that AUR.

"Manjaro Makes Desktop Linux Look GOOD!" thats gnome with some extensions and a program that makes in easier to load 2 extensions

I like your presentation sir.