i think, i'm falling in Love

Because of the desktop?

@AmbientTea

because of everything: desktop, pacman, easy to use, no bullshit stuff, etc.

@amirbig Why do you like pacman?

icons on the desktop.... urrghhhh >(

@netikras Agreed.

Ah yes, manjaro. It was my daily for two years because I had zero interest in fucking around with arch.

@netikras I still don't get why people are against using that tool
It's kinda useful imho

You should get married!

@Root Why wouldn't you like pacman? It did everything I needed absolutely perfectly so far.

@PrivateGER I asked him why he liked it. I said nothing about my own preference.

Honestly I’m curious about other people’s experiences with it vs other package managers like dpkg/apt, yum, rpm, etc.

I prefer pacman to apt mostly because I disliked configuring ppa and the releases like jessie, stretch, buster, stable, etc. I tried arch, liked it and been with it for long. And makepkg + aur is the same tools repo maintainers use so it feels quite simple to make your own stuff using the same stack.

Manjaro is decent, but they lag a bit behind arch sometimes, it caused me a few issues in the past on a gaming rig with wine from aur. That was before proton though.

I also prefered pop os to manjaro on a gaming rig only because it has a better ootb experience with Nvidia optimus prime video cards setup.

I prefer window managers over desktops, but that’s the freedom of choice using Linux

@Root
it does what it needs to be done without any extra bullshit

@Jedidja it's messy...

@netikras
really?! show me your desktop 🤔

@Root In my experience, it just works™.
None of that apt repo and ppa stuff, it just works. The AUR is for everything else.
Beautiful simplicity.

@amirbig I prefer some greenery with wild strawberries I'm growing over some icons :)

https://ibb.co/2Kqpp9D