I need some honest advice...

I need some honest advice. I want to use KDE 5 for a while and cant decide if Manjaro is good choice and as a good starting distro for someone who never used pacman and would want to switch to Arch someday?

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I am thinking about getting manjaro as well m8

Just use Antergos if you want an easy Arch install. Unlike Manjaro, it uses the default Arch repos.

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God, logging in to plasma 5 is so slow.

It's fine and I've seen many people who transitioned from it to arch once they felt confident

I personally use it as my main linux OS, even though I don't use linux very often

Did you ever encountered some problems? Are you using KDE and the newest Manjaro?

Manjaro KDE should be fine. But I highly suggest you build KDE from a minimal setup so you don't end up having any issues.

So Arch + KDE or Manjaro Net + KDE or Antergos Base + KDE.

Tip: Stick to KDE/Qt applications only

Is there any detailed gude as how to do that minimal install because i really never used pacman before and dont know any commands or manjaro repos

i've been using KDE on Opensuse Tumbleweed and i'm happy with it. it's a pretty user friendly rolling release distro, if that's what your'e looking for.

honestly if you want to switch to Arch just switch to Arch. it's not hard to use if you're ok with reading the wiki and following instructions.

Yes I have that setup

In terms of major bugs, the typical problem I always get with linux - no audio output through HDMI (which is fixable after going through tons of different sound configs). Otherwise it works pretty well but my laptop is very well supported by the latest linux kernels

The KDE interface looks pretty but it doesn't feel that responsive, it's mostly personal preference though

Why would you want to switch to Arch? And why don't you just use Arch if you want to use Arch?

The "use a baby distro before Arch/Gentoo/whatever" is just a meme, it's best you just dive in. And if you're not retarded you'll get it working in short order.

What distro did you decide to use, Both 3 are fine.
Manjaro:
wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Installation_Guide_for_the_NET_Edition_0.8.10
Antergos:
Just install the base package
Arch:
>Architect
maketecheasier.com/architect-linux-install-arch-linux-the-easy-way/
[link may be out dated]

>KDE install
Simple:
$sudo pacman -S plasma

It will only give you a window manager, settings and network manager. I prefer a full KDE experience:

$sudo pacman -S plasma-meta kde-applications-meta

You are good to go

I have some high tier Asus laptop, one of those that shamelessly mimic apple laptopts.
Got win 10 on the ssd and kubuntu on the secondary hdd.
Even in summer, 96% of the body keeps very cool. But as soon as I boot into fucking kuckbuntu temps go up like crazy.
What the fuck KDE.

I'll just leave this here...

Kubuntu was the buggiest KDE distro I have ever tested, buggier than Netrunner

ebil
farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/3043010077_d0a7509eb5_o.jpg

fucking epic

>Manjaro
Couldn't say.
>KDE 5
Please don't. I've been using Kubuntu for a while and Plasma is utter garbage. I switched from XFCE because it looked nice, but regret it.

Kubuntu is absolutely the worst KDE setup I have ever seen

i tried plasma /again/ last week and nuked it after a day
kwin now shits itself after some use
i liked kde 4 - looked, felt and worked better
plasma is like a kids joke
get lxqt instead if you want to use some of kde's apps

Yeah, go for it. Manjaro KDE is currently the most polished implementation of KDE.
It also seems like it has the least bugs. I see people complaining about KDE all the time here, but I have never once ran into an issue my laptop running Manjaro KDE.

not using glorious openbox
kde is garbage tier

>preparing to prepare to prepare to install Gentoo
just get it over with you whiny millennial
or you know just use a normal operating system like ubuntu

Kubuntu or their own homebrew distro they are cooking up

>God, logging in to plasma 5 is so slow.
Or lighting fast, its a 50/50 mix, thankfully i use GNOME

>I am thinking about getting manjaro as well m8
I'm a Manjaro man. I tried it once, never went back. And people say that Ubuntu is a seamless experience...

>I'm a Manjaro man. I tried it once, never went back. And people say that Ubuntu is a seamless experience...

I'm saying that in a positive way btw

>their own homebrew distro they are cooking up
Wait, really? Where? What package manager are they going to use?

A N T E R G O S

neon.kde.org/
.... its pretty much ubuntu

sudo apt-get remove faggot
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wewlad

Tumbleweed master race. YaST is bretty good.

XD XD

YAST a shit

I think you might wanna just go back to /r/linuxmasterrace

Yeah go for it op

Never hurts to try does it?

sddm needs some love, it's a pity

opensuse is a pretty good kde centric distro.
Just don't fall for the kubuntu meme.

Why not just try them all? See what feels best to you.

Eh? So, if I'd switch to slim or something as login manager my kde startup would be good?
Could try of course, but I'm really not hopeful that fixes anything...

Even opensuse is fucking buggy and it's the flagship distro of Plasma 5. How could Plasma 5 devs fuck up this badly?

Get a barebones distro and setup i3 with a decent theme. Never looking back

No, sddm has nothing to do with it. That's just kde's startup script being a old buggy mess that nobody wants to fix.
Just start a different de with sddm and see for yourself

>That's just kde being a old buggy mess that nobody wants to fix.
ftfy

Here's an easy guide to install arch

Just install Arch if you're gonna use manjaro. Manjaro is literal cancer and Arch isn't hard to use even for a windows migrant.

>can't even make their site properly responsive

Every_FUCKING_thing is better than the bullshit needed to get the gnome addons site to actually work.

Then use Xfce like any sane man

Why not LXQT.

No xfce4-panel, so no whiskermenu and taskbar... though yes, you can always put it in yourself. But yeah on pcmanfm > Thunar. Honestly the two are trivial to mix together