Changing Gnu-Linux distro
So… it finally happened - after 21 years of Mandrake-Linux, Mandriva and Mageia, I have installed Manjaro. Feels like leaving your wife for a young, firm butted girl, but things have immediately become better. Both Libreoffice and kde-pim crashed after the last Mageia update. Now I can install the latest Krita, Blender and Amarok 2.9 (which I am probably the last person to use) from the package manager instead of using AppImage.
What I really wanted was the rolling release so I didn't have to install new versions on all the computers in the house. My three girls all use linux and have done so for the entire preiod, so when my wife bought a new Dell laptop she said that she wanted me to erase Windows and install the usual system. Everybody here hates Windows for the same reason that other hate Apple or Linux: it is unfamiliar, weird and not what you are used to.
I really am interested in how this will work out. Graphic programmes are still in heavy development, and I do need a lot of the new features they come up with. Blender and Krita are inventing new, handy tools every new release. For all the rest I just want it to work and have no need for updated versions so those are definitely contradictory demands. Now I’ll see what Manjaro can do for me, and if it works just reasonably well I’ll stick with it. Being sysadmin for my three girls sucks all the joy I had in bleeding edge in those golden, olden days out of me, and remembering how bad Microsoft and Apple were is no longer a consolation as I almost don’t remember how it was any more.
I just want to sit quietly drawing, oblivious of what kernel I am using, what security risks I am taking and who Linus Torvalds has insulted lately.
But… conservative and loyal as I am it is with mixed feelings. At least my new distro also starts with an M.
I used Mandrake years ago after trying Red Hat, but never moved onto the successors. I think it worked pretty well at the time. I was also a fan of Amarok, but use Rhythmbox now. I don't tend to use things like playlists, so I just need something that loads up all my music and lets me play albums.
I've not used a rolling release distro, but upgrades with Ubuntu have been fairly smooth in recent years. Just had to do a fresh install last time as Ubuntu Studio moved to KDE. I am not using the KDE apps, so it does not make much difference really.
My kids use Windows and I am not too bothered. Supporting the computers of others can be a pain. My dad calls me with his issues, but he has a Mac and I know little about those.
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Habit is one of the strongest forces in the life of humans. So as they have used it for so long and as Linux desktops have become more and more stable and has less problems with file formats and such, they just consider it the norm. My eldest daughter has a double boot so she can also play windows games (mainly Japanese as many games on the Steam platform now also can be played on Linux). But she uses the same programs as I do for drawing and animation which is her interest.
We'll see about this new distro. Right now it works like a charm.
I use Amarok because it remembers where I was in my audio books... I then use other players for music - will have a look at Rhythmbox.
I only need a few apps really. Spend most of my time in a browser, but use Thunderbird for mail and Ardour for music recording. Ardour is really powerful and is working well.
For playing music I need something that can let me access all my music and log plays on last.fm. I have been using Spotify lately, but I have loads of music locally.
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