Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Manjaro is Superb

Latest Manjaro is Superb.
Basic install is minimal.
Option is there to opt out LibreOffice or choose OpenOffice.
LibreOffice is latest 25.8 version.
I choose only AbiWord.
Except for Opera browser all browsers supported, inckudinng Brave.
One can install Gnome Software but options are limited.
I installed first Blender which takes up lot of space. After GIMP, Audacity, lmms, and VLC, I still have 5GB left out of 20GB /root partition.
The mistake I made first was to have a small /var patition. I increased it to 10GB and things settled in well.
Unlike Debian Gnome all additional applications are installed using /var.
I leave a /tmp file and a small /boot partitiom in addition.
Currently, EFI partition needs at least 1.2GB.
I have decided not to use FEDORA and SUSE due to their unnecessary bulk and their own repositories lacking things I desperately need.
Good Bye to Fedora and Suse.
ARCH rocks and I have most beautiful KDE in BlueStar Linux.
RebornOS has not updated for sometime but it is more flexible.
Catchy OS is a class act.
KIRO OS even though, I have fallen out because of its use of Variety Wall Paper (with inherent vulnerability) with lot of animations is another wirth testing. It comes with XFCE which I hate but onr can add other desktops.
I am still holding my book "Linux Essentials".
A guy has come out with a Puppy Derivative (forget the name)
which is pretty impressive with lot of applications. 
Downloaded latest EasyOS but did not test it.

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