After trying MX Linux for a few days on my Mac, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I liked Manjaro better and wanted to finally put it on my Macbook Pro (2010). I was reluctant to leave the Ubuntu / Debian world but Manjaro is just so damn elegant, fast and has so many software options.
If I’m being honest with myself, I just wanted a good looking distro that I could play my 90’s video games on and use a Microsoft Office alternative for school.
My top distro picks so far are:
- Manjaro (Arch based)
- MX Linux (Debian based)
- Zorin OS (Ubuntu based)
- Xubuntu (Ubuntu)
The XFCE desktop performs the best on my 5 and 10 year old computers.
I was curious so I tried the live versions of the other major distros:
Fedora: Unity desktop in live version, nice, but nothing “called” to me.
OpenSUSE: Good, but I didn’t like visual software installer.
Gentoo: Elegant desktop in live DVD but nothing called to me.
Slackware: I couldn’t figure out default login / password, so I gave up.
My mind just kept coming back to Manjaro… so that’s what I finally installed.
On my old Macbook Pro I had success with burned install DVD-roms and limited success with Live Flashdrives.
I think I have satisfied my distrohopping curiosity and I am going to stick with Manjaro for a while.