June 11, 2019
A Song of Praise on Manjaro Linux (Gnome Edition)
As I am a friend of free and open source software I actually would love to use a Linux-based OS on my Laptop(s). However, after countless tries I must say that I am not a big friend of Linux on a notebook. I often found the system to be a bit fragile, things that “just work” on other OSes (like a Bluetooth keyboard, tethering or an external screen) can be a fight, if you have a bit of special hardware it can take ages to set it up, power management sometimes does not work properly (so your Laptop gets super hot while the battery is drained in no time)… At least, this is what I have experienced in the last years with Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based distributions running on my old MacBook Air from 2011.
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