Manjaro Linux 20.1 'Mikah' is out now with a theme refresh

Can't wait to get home to update :D

I love the design choices of Manjaro's team, it's always clean and with nice colors. I hope that Xubuntu changes their theme, that greybird feels too antiquated.

What's the name of this theme?

Quoting: fagnerlnI love the design choices of Manjaro's team, it's always clean and with nice colors. I hope that Xubuntu changes their theme, that greybird feels too antiquated.

What's the name of this theme?

I guess you missed it, but the article says it's called 'Matcha'.

Quoting: fagnerlnI love the design choices of Manjaro's team, it's always clean and with nice colors. I hope that Xubuntu changes their theme, that greybird feels too antiquated.

What's the name of this theme?

Always funny to see how different personal taste can be. To me this looks about as off putting as it can get.

Since i’ve switched from Ubunta/Mint to Manjaro about 3 or 4 years ago, my Linux experience is better.
Less issues, more games running, but it may simply be because all main distro are getting better with time.
Anyway, i like Manjaro and i don’t see myself changing anytime soon.

Pamac was one of the things I really liked about Manjaro when I used it. It worked well and let me experience a slice of Arch. T'm not a fan of their theming or color schemes, but it was a reasonably polished and integrated distro.

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: fagnerlnI love the design choices of Manjaro's team, it's always clean and with nice colors. I hope that Xubuntu changes their theme, that greybird feels too antiquated.

What's the name of this theme?

Always funny to see how different personal taste can be. To me this looks about as off putting as it can get.

I'm not a fan either, but then I don't like the default look of most distros. I have a fairly idiosyncratic notion of what looks good (eg I like real colours better than interior-decorator muddy pseudocolours); one thing I like about Linux is how easy it is to decisively change these things to something aligning more with my taste.


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Since i moved from ubuntu to manjaro i've never look back. Manjaro (specially the testing branch) have fast updates with good stability. Their theming kind grown on me over the time, but i still think they have some homework to do in this department.

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: fagnerlnI love the design choices of Manjaro's team, it's always clean and with nice colors. I hope that Xubuntu changes their theme, that greybird feels too antiquated.

What's the name of this theme?

I guess you missed it, but the article says it's called 'Matcha'.

Oh, my bad. I've read a lot of Mikah that I missed Matcha... lol

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: fagnerlnI love the design choices of Manjaro's team, it's always clean and with nice colors. I hope that Xubuntu changes their theme, that greybird feels too antiquated.

What's the name of this theme?

Always funny to see how different personal taste can be. To me this looks about as off putting as it can get.

Yeah, feels like I have an unpopular opinion about the themes that Manjaro uses. But I really like the colors, a good green, good grey, the dark panel, etc...

Quoting: scaineYour correction report on Manjaro Linux 20.1 'Mikah' is out now with a theme refresh was:

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QuoteManjaro Linux, the semi-rolling distribution...

1. True-rolling distributions: These distributions update every part of your operating system.

2. Semi-rolling distributions: These distributions don’t update every part of your operating system. They are divided into a rolling part and a non-rolling part. These distributions often have a non-rolling core. They don’t update the kernel and drivers but do update everything else and have rolling software repositories.

Source: https://www.maketecheasier.com/linux-rolling-release-model/


Manjaro definitely fits the former over the latter.

I suggest you make this as a comment, lectrode, since I don't agree with it, and given that Liam lost his Manjaro install because they updated the Nvidia driver without releasing the matching kernel driver, I doubt he'll agree with it either!

It's a great observation though, and one I'm invested in - I'm thinking of trying either Manjaro or Endevour and the whole "semi-rolling" piece is putting me off Manjaro, so it would be a good/useful debate.

Thanks,
Scaine.

Per the above, continuing discussion here.

The manjaro devs still seem to be ironing out their metapackage kernel support. That was something that a recently departed member of the manjaro team would manage. The team was somewhat pushed to update the nvidia driver to 450 in a rushed manner (since a 440 update apparently broke some functionality) and neglected to update 5.7 nvidia modules right away (which is what linux-latest points to). 5.8 may also not have been updated as there were module build errors until recently.

(This is also one of the reasons I have people use the linux-lts metapackage instead of linux-latest - the actual latest kernel available occasionally has bugs or incomplete module support)

For that particular situation, it's more of an unfortunate oversight than the deliberate withholding of updates.

The metapackages were specifically created to automatically move a user to the latest recommended, or the latest lts. If you have a kernel installed that is EOL and is removed from the repos, one of these metapackages will be automatically installed to replace that kernel, install the respective updated kernel, and ensure the system is able to continue to install updates (without the metapackage, continuing to have the eol kernel leads to the inability to update). I'd argue that because this forces the kernel to be updated (if an eol one is installed), that this qualifies as a rolling release model, not semi-rolling.


Last edited by lectrode on 14 September 2020 at 9:55 pm UTC