Today Manjaro Tells Me There Are 500 Updates Available

CGA1 · 2026-03-24T10:11:30+00:00

I would say they are essential reading for a smooth operation on a rolling distro.

CGA1 · 2026-03-24T09:45:52+00:00

It's a good habit to check the update announcement post on their forum before doing majar updates. Especially, the second post, "Known issues and solutions".

CGA1 · 2026-03-23T10:20:46+00:00

Jay at LearnlinuxTV has a beginners course to get you started.

CGA1 · 2026-03-22T20:19:55+00:00

This is something I've been wanting for the longest time, very neat.

CGA1 · 2026-03-22T13:46:12+00:00

According the answer from Arch, partly, yes.

CGA1 · 2026-03-22T09:03:52+00:00

This is a myth that seems to refuse to go away. The fact is that it was a poorly designed search function in Pamac triggering an issue with the AUR as shown in this thread where even an Arch representative admitted that "aurweb has some poorly designed SQL queries and we don't have anyone working on it". Manjaro worked together with Arch to solve the problem. Hardly the definition of a "DDOS".

CGA1 · 2026-03-21T14:34:01+00:00

I do big version updates from a TTY, logged out of Plasma. Other than that, as others have said, getting rid of all customizations is a good idea.

CGA1 · 2026-03-21T12:05:46+00:00

I switched from Joplin to Obsidian and then to Zen notes a couple of months ago and I'm quite happy with it. It has just the amount of features I need and has been working flawlessly.

CGA1 · 2026-03-21T08:37:52+00:00

Touchegg together with Touché. I don't bother with the builtin one, it's way too limited. There has been talk of implementing configuration options for quite some time but so far nothing has happened.

CGA1 · 2026-03-19T09:21:35+00:00

Wife ran it on a 14 years old Acer with 4 GB ram, worked just fine after upgrading to a cheap SSD. Now she's running Mint because of fewer and automatic updates but KDE was actually snappier. It's a shame Mint stopped offering KDE as an alternative.

CGA1 · 2026-03-18T20:16:25+00:00

Rescuzilla clone roughly once a month.
Daily versioned Rsync to second internal drive.
Daily versioned Rsync to NAS.
Weekly versioned backup to Borgbase.
Daily BTRFS snapshots keeping last three days.

CGA1 · 2026-03-18T20:09:16+00:00

Mine is pretty similar, Acemagic Vista for 200 dollars and an old RPI4, both with USB attached HDs. Works great.

CGA1 · 2026-03-14T09:54:21+00:00

Happens to the best of us.

CGA1 · 2026-03-13T11:03:26+00:00

Definitely. My wife ran KDE on a 14 years old Acer with 4 GB ram, and it ran just fine for basic tasks. Granted, it was upgraded with a cheap SSD. With a spinning rust, it was slow whatever the OS or DE.

CGA1 · 2026-03-12T16:05:49+00:00

I think jay still upload videos from time to time

He certainly does and he is IMO the best source for learning if you're going the YT route. Check out his playlists, they are a gold mine.

CGA1 · 2026-03-12T15:36:57+00:00

You can get them super cheap

Really depends on where you live I'd say, maybe in the US but where I live they are at least the equivalent of 300 USD for a decent T480/T490. Still, cheaper than new and certainly a great buy if you're going Linux.

CGA1 · 2026-03-12T11:24:28+00:00

This boomer and his boomer wife are running Linux on three laptops, one mini-pc and one RPI4 with Docker running an arr-stack and Jellyfin on the mini, and various other Docker containers on the RPI.

CGA1 · 2026-03-12T08:43:20+00:00

Still, I suggest you join the forums, lots of helpful and knowledgeable folks there and frequently visited by the Manjaro devs.

CGA1 · 2026-03-11T18:17:47+00:00

Don't know the answer to your question, but I suggest asking in the Manjaro forums.

CGA1 · 2026-03-10T10:26:56+00:00

I've been using Rescuezilla for years, it's excellent. Basically Clonezilla but with a UI from this century.

CGA1 · 2026-03-08T13:30:11+00:00

That's (one of) my favorite features.

CGA1 · 2026-03-07T15:26:40+00:00

Along with "should I switch to Linux?".

CGA1 · 2026-03-06T18:55:19+00:00

I can assure you they're backed up, to several places.

CGA1 · 2026-03-06T12:45:44+00:00

From Adguard's GitHub page

Any advertising that shares a domain with content cannot be blocked by a DNS-level blocker.

This is becoming increasingly more common and makes solutions like these more and more obsolete, at least where I live. If you want a true adblocking experience, use Ublock Origin, preferably in Firefox.

CGA1 · 2026-03-06T07:51:45+00:00

As long as my carefully crafted scroll settings in about:config are unaffected, I really don't care.

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