Hi All,

Over the previous 20 years I’ve used at home mostly Mandriva, then kUbuntu and just installed a Manjaro. So I am not “new to Linux” but still new to Manjaro/arch. Has anyone a good “primer” for people migrating ?

A few questions I have

  • How does pacman work compared to apt-get ? and how to find in which package an command lies. I struggled a bit to get lsinput (to configure a rudder pedal for flight sim)

  • I am struggling a bit with Zsh, like I ended up starting bash to configure an environment variable, any ressources on-it. Or shall I simply change my setting (and how) to use bash that I know a bit. It’s a home/Gaming PC so I don’t plan to use the console that much but as anyone who has been using linux based OS for a while, I find-it more conveinient

  • Fryboyter@discuss.tchncs.de
    11·
    10 months ago

    How does pacman work compared to apt-get ?

    Roughly speaking, pacman is faster, but offers fewer functions. And the parameters take some time getting used to. For example, you can update the system with pacman -Syu.

    and how to find in which package an command lies.

    You can either use the command pacman -F or the tool pkgfile.

    I am struggling a bit with Zsh, like I ended up starting bash to configure an environment variable, any ressources on-it.

    Without a more detailed description of the problem, it is difficult to help you. As I have been using ZSH for many years (also under Arch), I can only say that you have done something wrong. But if you don’t want to work much with the shell anyway, Bash is perfectly adequate.

    But do yourself a favour and stay away from Manjaro. The team responsible for this distribution has already made so many avoidable mistakes and strange decisions that I don’t trust this distribution. And I’m not alone in this opinion. If you want a distribution based on Arch, there are better alternatives. Like EndeavourOS, for example.

    • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      The votes for EndeavourOS keep rolling in. I like to distro hop just to experience what’s new, but I can’t help coming back to EndeavourOS every single time.