yes i test … it nice
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Hi @merlock, it’s nice to see you here! I hope you stick around, even if you’re not using EOS. Always nice to have familiar people around 
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There was a time I thought so too 
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Welcome on board!
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Try it live.
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I stay vanilla if ok… If i break it and no way fix 
i might give EOS metal 
Deal ?
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I have been running EOS for a few weeks now, everything works great and I really like that the install is close to Arch. I have been reading the Arch wiki and learned many new things, e.g. basics on how pacman and the AUR works, PKBUILD files etc.
Besides this, I also like to dig into the EOS GitHub to get a better understanding how a Linux distribution works. This is manageable to be as a beginner, as there are a limited things that is added on top of the baseline Arch, compared to Manjaro that seems a bit more complicated.
Last, but maybe the most important thing, the EOS forum is great and so very supportive and friendly.
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Although every new user would act the way you do. The principle is the following in my humble opinion: read first, then ask.
It’s interesting what you write about Manjaro because a lot of people tend to point out that it’s a pretty beginner-friendly distribution. In fact, the EOS seems to be more flexible in terms of settings and configurability.
I can only agree on this without comment. 
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I was more referring to that EOS feels “less complicated” when it comes what additional tools are added and it’s easy to get a grasp on how the distribution is built. E.g. looking at the various helper scripts here, learning some more about Bash as I go along:
Manjaro is indeed beginner friendly, but I feel that EOS is that as well, if you are ready to do some homework on the important basic things like package management. I always used pamac on Manjaro, but I decided to learn pacman and yay on EOS and I don’t regret that.
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same here, I don’t need Pamac anymore.
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To be fair, you can have a Pamac-less experience on Manjaro, too. Before I even considered distro hopping away from Manjaro, I just uninstalled Pamac, as an experiment.
And, somewhat surprisingly to me at the time (but not really in retrospective), nothing catastrophic happened, the system worked just as well as it did when it had Pamac installed.
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It’s kind of nice that the forum is up and running 
Feeling a bit sad for the Manjy team right now - looks like a rough time.
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That is strange. Is a Coffee Lake or the new Ice Lake platform you are using, and which laptop?
It’s a Dell Inspiron 5493 i5 with 24GB RAM and Intel Graphics… I’m not near the cpu right now.
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Manjaro can also be used safely without Pamac, with Pacman and Yay.
I use both but I find myself on EOS more
I like the simplicity, stability, easy installation with all the configuration options, and the amount of official desktop environments maintained by the EOS team
Both distros work great and have two of the best Linux forums on the internet
One thing I still like about Manjaro more than any other distro is the bootloader screen. It looks really nice and I like the way there is one main title for each partition, then a subsection of “advanced options for…” which opens up all the fallbacks. Plus the option to enter the Bios at the bottom of the list is handy
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Without pamac, pacman, and yay, how do you update Manjaro?
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In manjaro tou can remove pacman because its splitted.
Splitting it was discussed but did it ever happen?
I don’t think it is possible to remove pacman unless that change was made very recently.
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