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Well I installed it and it seemed fine. Well a while later and realized the time that was supposed to be eastern time was off by 5 hrs even though it was set to NY during the installation. Well I found the same problem and went to a forum and a guy has the same thing. Well the answer was to adjust the time settings. Well no time setting was installed for me or him. Well I opened pamac and almost installed it. It was missing a file gksudo. Well I tried and no gksudo for arch for some reason, then I tried gksu. Well it's install but was replaced with gksu.polkit. I'm fuming now, apparently the maintainers never even installed this garbage and tested it for a day or so because without the ability to change the time is a huge thing. Even their stupid widgets didn't have the ability. Huge oversight by some dumbass and no one even found this glaring issue. I think Manjaro went MS and go rid of QC also or they hired inept leads that should have caught this before signing off on it. Next up archo linux with openbox. Has to be better than some of the shit I've installed lately. Even fucking namib is fucking up with a pgp signature fucking me on a regular update. It's the bluetooth shit and I already removed all that shit since I have usb so I have no use for bluetooth. I also disabled printers and removed all that and cups and it's trying to update what has been removed, not a good setup if the updater cannot see that the files they want to update are not installed so ignore this shit. Fuck so frustraiting, linux is getting worse. Hell install mint cinnamon, no wonder it's falling in popularity, they have fucked up a great distro which ran better 5 years ago. Stuff is supposed to get better not worse as you go along. The person in charge needs to be fired and blackballed for destroying a great OS that ran fine and now it's hobbled.

Well I installed it and it seemed fine. Well a while later and realized the time that was supposed to be eastern time was off by 5 hrs even though it was set to NY during the installation. Well I found the same problem and went to a forum and a guy has the same thing. Well the answer was to adjust the time settings. Well no time setting was installed for me or him. Well I opened pamac and almost installed it. It was missing a file gksudo. Well I tried and no gksudo for arch for some reason, then I tried gksu. Well it's install but was replaced with gksu.polkit. I'm fuming now, apparently the maintainers never even installed this garbage and tested it for a day or so because without the ability to change the time is a huge thing. Even their stupid widgets didn't have the ability. Huge oversight by some dumbass and no one even found this glaring issue. I think Manjaro went MS and go rid of QC also or they hired inept leads that should have caught this before signing off on it. Next up archo linux with openbox. Has to be better than some of the shit I've installed lately. Even fucking namib is fucking up with a pgp signature fucking me on a regular update. It's the bluetooth shit and I already removed all that shit since I have usb so I have no use for bluetooth. I also disabled printers and removed all that and cups and it's trying to update what has been removed, not a good setup if the updater cannot see that the files they want to update are not installed so ignore this shit. Fuck so frustraiting, linux is getting worse. Hell install mint cinnamon, no wonder it's falling in popularity, they have fucked up a great distro which ran better 5 years ago. Stuff is supposed to get better not worse as you go along. The person in charge needs to be fired and blackballed for destroying a great OS that ran fine and now it's hobbled.

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

You didn't ask for this advice, but just go Debian, man. All these "let's do it different" distros are cool'n'shit until they fuck up

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I'm on MX which is debian based. I also installed debian xfce and it was fucked also. I think there is some sabotage and I think MS is likely placing faggot saboteurs into linux jobs to take it down from the inside.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I'm taking your advise, just downloaded Debian and I'm going to have it with ICEWM. This should make me learn a lot more by immersing myself into using the terminal more and not relying on the mouse all the time.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I believe you'll not have the same amount of problems.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I just installed it the other day and removed it the same day.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Manjaro is shit, just go with raw Arch

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

The worst part is if you cancel an install because something won't download for some fucked up reason. You then cannot install a different item because it locks up pamac and a restart is the way to fix it properly.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Can't do it memory isn't good enough to memorize the steps or commands to do that yet. Just did a fresh install of namib xfce, wouldn't update in pamac. I then opened terminal and updated keys and the did the sudo pacman -Syu and it all installed without a stutter and now I realize that with this new PC rule for linux it is now full of idiot faggots that pretend to be programmers. THey should have stuck with just taking dicks up the ass. Also that tran dyke that pushed this code of conduct.

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I've noticed this; I blame ubuntu (or, more aptly: the ubuntufication of most modern linux distros). Been using Solus for about a year now. New favorite distro, and everything runs (surprisingly) well. Haven't run in to any serious bugs. Just some visual glitches that were resolved with an update and a random problem updating, when the laptop didn't get turned on for over a month. sudo eopkg ur fixed that. Highly recommend the "Budgie" version: https://getsol.us/home/

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

I just can't stand budgie, just to beginner looking. Don't like that side slideout either or there is no menu it's a gnome type and it shrinks down to one I don't like either, like the whisker menu best of all. I'm downloading the Zen installer to install arch with a gui and it lets me choose a DE also, I think I'll go with open box since it's got a menu on the desktop. Just finished now to burn it with Etcher to a usb and reboot.

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just to beginner looking

I'd say it looks more "professional" than "beginner," you still have access to the console, to do any "advanced" stuff. It also lends itself nicely for when other people want to use your computer. It's comfortable and stable as fuck; I'm tired of constantly using buggy DE's with finicky display settings and having to manually edit a hundred confs to get things looking proper. Both KDE and GNOME are garbage, IMO. KDE less-so, but still: bloated.

I love the slide-out alerts menu. Instead of a thousand "bubbles" popping up and getting in the way, you can just click it to see all the messages in one place: all the bubble notifications you might have missed 'cause you were afk at the time, etc. It's like the linux version of Android's drop-down panel. There's nothing wrong with things being "simple." If anything, it takes a very thorough and intelligent group of people to make something simple that works well, is stable and doesn't give you problems. Nothing wrong with having high standards. ;)

You do you, fren. That's the great thing about linux: you can change whatever you want to make it work however you want. If you like open box, use open box. I used to use fluxbox, back in the day. It just got too annoying; I realized that I'm just the kind of person that wants someone who designs a DE to do it properly for me— don't want to spend all day fussing around with it. If I wanted a totally, 100% custom UI: I'd build my own from scratch. :p

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

KDE's big problem is they have to many widgets. The panel they have is crap, it's a bitch to get setup and the widgets are not clearly described so a place to hold your open programs it took like an hour to find the right one, total bullshit that people can't put a discriptive title or a screencap or something so you can actually see what the mystery widget really does. I wanted arch with open box but arco linux didn't specify you have to memorize script names to install the DE or that you ended up at just a login and my internet was not started so it was basically the basic ISO is installed so fuckoff I did my part.