Forgot to ask. Does Manjaro MATE support the Emerald theme manager and Compiz?
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i'm sorry but dvd's are for skeet shooting or using as ninja stars this day and age. lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUf-g9tbAvg
Sometimes distros don't play well with getting burned to usb, also it's easy to overwrite one that you may want later, with a disc you'd always have it. I have a binder slipcase with quite a few distros in it.
The packages are available in the community repos. Compiz works on most desktop environments, I think the main GUI desktop environments that it doesn't work with are Gnome and Cinammon, emerald doesn't work on Unity. You can try booting into the live environment before manjaro would be installed and install compiz and emerald to make sure everything works for you. You can find info in the wiki and in some YouTube videos about what packages you might need to install.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kggTmGWf1vE
Just to let you know, Manjaro is not a perfect distro and can be "buggy". I had different versions of Manjaro installed and there were a lot of problems I had with updating, and also audio issues where I had to reinstall the OS a few times, so be prepared for that. It has been a few years though, so it might be a bit more stable. I have found any arch derivatives are not as stable as arch itself, plenty of people use them though and they make switching a lot easier. Anything Arch based usually is a bit more advanced too, you may have to do researching, ask questions online and reinstall your OS if you don't know how to fix something.
Ok, sounds fair, Tbh, the only reason I didn't go for the Vanilla Arch is because it doesn't seem to have a gui installer. All I can find of it are ones that require everything to be installed via command line. Literally just an iso with no actual gui installer or anything else, lol. I'm simply not skilled enough to install anything that way. I gotta have a gui installer to install it with. Gotta have the desktop enviroment available via the gui installer as well ,lol.
If there's a version of the default vanilla Arch Linux with a gui installer that provides everything needed [like pretty much all Ubuntu flavours do], then I might try that, but without that I don't have the skill to do it all via command line lol.
Basically I'm going for Arch because Ubuntu doesn't support my graphics. And going to an older build that does fudged up my wifi connection [literally had the worst wifi connection ever. couldn't stay connected for more than 2-3 seconds at a time].
Any gui installers are unofficial and aren't supported by the arch community unfortunately. Manjaro is a seperate distro that's based on arch. If you like the idea of manjaro, try it out.
Which of those copies of Manjaro MATE is the one to download to make a live USB installer out of? I figured out how to do it via command line simple enough but I only see a .iso.sha1 version and a .iso.sig version on there. And the link up top suggesting the latest version is a Manjaro Cinnimon link....
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Nevermind I found it. Apparently I'm just blind or something, lol....