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 I switched to Manjaro XFCE last Wednesday. Needless to say, the experience wasn't great. Don't get me wrong, XFCE is a great DE, but at that point I had gotten too attached to the AO in GNOME. I switched to Manjaro KDE next, but I realized that GNOME had casted some kinda spell on me and I couldn't escape its grasps.

So I finally caved in and switched to Manjaro GNOME. That achieved a pretty good result. I was very impressed by the features offered. They allowed you to switch between different GNOME layouts seamlessly. 

I had heard that Arch-based distros offered the best package manager. Arch has this thing called the Arch User Repository (AUR) which houses every package under the Sun. This made the software installation in Arch-based distros so simple and easy compared to other Linux distros. And I can confirm firsthand that all of it is true.

However, my installation did not last. Pamac (The GUI for installing software) had become VERY slow. Like unbearably slow. It would just randomly freeze and kill itself. I tried troubleshooting it, but at that point I was too apathetic to take care of it. My midterms were coming up, and I couldn't afford having a distro like Manjaro break on me suddenly.

Being a rolling release distro, Manjaro had an added chance of breaking on you if you fiddled with it too much. So I left it alone and returned to Pop_OS!.

Another reason why I switched back to Pop_OS is because I missed the auto-tiling feature it provided built-in. I had gotten so used to it that I only started missing it when it wasn't there anymore. You can technically install the pop shell in Manjaro and still use the auto-tiling feature, but for some reason, this didn't work for me.

It was at that point that I realized that I like tiling WMs. I feel like they make the desktop more efficient. So I started looking into those. My next distro will be Manjaro i3 edition. i3 is a fairly popular beginner's tiling WM.

So until next time!


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