I was a manjaro i3 user for months on my old laptop, but got a new one with an optimus setup (nvidia card with intel igpu). Yeah, I know, "nvidia bad for oss etc.", but that's what was sold. And cuda is still the gold standard for compute. I had to switch because I couldn't get gpu switching working on my manjaro; nvidia card was stuck in D3 state. Very sad, though I'm now on i3 arch and happy.
Re:A Tiling Desktop Environment
by phren0logy on Sunday June 02, 2019 @04:05AM
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Give Pop_OS a try. It works well with optimus setups out of the box. You can install cuda, and tensorflow in a single apt command. It's a nice option for ML/DL work.
Re:A Tiling Desktop Environment
by trufflepig on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:12PM
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How does Manjaro compare to Ubuntu for the “new user seamless install of everything” and “easy update for new users”
Re:A Tiling Desktop Environment
by nsilvestri on Sunday June 02, 2019 @05:18AM
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Kubuntu -> Manjaro KDE was a transition I made when I was still distro-hopping. I used Octopi as a pacman GUI which was super easy to use compared to Kubuntu's. Now that I've learned how to use pacman, I've still never had issues with a -Syu on either my Manjaro i3 or Arch systems, but I don't use Octopi anymore.
Depends on the WM you're using. I think (?) there are gui frontends to pacman? Never bothered to use them. But gnome is available on it, same as ubuntu. Of course, it's almost certainly a little less friendly, but probably not much.
The edition could still use some more love (e.g., I had to set up auto-mounting and HiDPI compatible configs myself), but it is remarkably cohesive and (relatively) easy to get going.
There is definitely room for improvement, but this is probably a good place to look or inspiration, and contributing to advance this work might be a good use of energy for those interested.