I am looking up some stuff about manjaro. I came across a page that said manjaro has there own gaming distro. Its called mGAMe. Have you guys ever tried it? I have been watching all the stuff everyone has been posting and starting to get a little more comfortable with this whole Linux thing now. It's not as scary as I thought lol. So I think I am going to spend some time finding a distro that fulfills my requirements. Then, spend a whole lot of time learning it. From there I can branch off into other builds that are optimized for gaming. Theres another one I'm reading about called SparkyLinux. I guess it comes with all the stuff needed to get you gaming. It has Steam, Play On Linux, Wine etc preinstalled. Plus its prepacked with lots of games which are totally free and open source. Man my adventure into Linux is like a falling into a wormhole. Like the adventure will take you wherever you desire to go lol. There is definitely something for everyone. I find this a lot more interesting than Windows.
Linux Lubuntu noob in need of help.
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I am looking up some stuff about manjaro. I came across a page that said manjaro has there own gaming distro. Its called mGAMe. Have you guys ever tried it? I have been watching all the stuff everyone has been posting and starting to get a little more comfortable with this whole Linux thing now. It's not as scary as I thought lol. So I think I am going to spend some time finding a distro that fulfills my requirements. Then, spend a whole lot of time learning it. From there I can branch off into other builds that are optimized for gaming. Theres another one I'm reading about called SparkyLinux. I guess it comes with all the stuff needed to get you gaming. It has Steam, Play On Linux, Wine etc preinstalled. Plus its prepacked with lots of games which are totally free and open source. Man my adventure into Linux is like a falling into a wormhole. Like the adventure will take you wherever you desire to go lol. There is definitely something for everyone. I find this a lot more interesting than Windows.
- Sep 10, 2015
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There's no need for a fancy gaming distro, you can install all of those programs from the Manjaro software center after a few clicks
- Jul 3, 2015
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As @geminis3 mentioned, Lubuntu is lighter than the default Ubuntu desktop, which is Gnome. Therefore, Lubuntu is better for underpowered computers.
My advice is to stay away from Manjaro until you have some Linux experience under your belt. Manjaro is great, but it is a little harder to master, it's not where people typically start their Linux experience.
My advice is to stay away from Manjaro until you have some Linux experience under your belt. Manjaro is great, but it is a little harder to master, it's not where people typically start their Linux experience.
Okay guess I will just get on the latest distro of Lubuntu and keep plucking away.
- Apr 24, 2016
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I have more than twenty years of experience with Linux.
The first ones I tried were Red Hat (now Fedora) and SUSE Linux (now OpenSUSE).
Then came Ubuntu as most noob friendly distribution.
Like @shmu26 said I would first get some experience by running an Ubuntu or Linux Mint based distribution.
When you get more experience, you can try Manjaro a nice Arch-based rolling release distribution.
These are the Major Distributions according to DistroWatch:
distrowatch.com
Website with very thorough and critical reviews:
www.dedoimedo.com
He is also active on Wilders:
Personally, I'm not using Linux anymore.
The first ones I tried were Red Hat (now Fedora) and SUSE Linux (now OpenSUSE).
Then came Ubuntu as most noob friendly distribution.
Like @shmu26 said I would first get some experience by running an Ubuntu or Linux Mint based distribution.
When you get more experience, you can try Manjaro a nice Arch-based rolling release distribution.
These are the Major Distributions according to DistroWatch:
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
Website with very thorough and critical reviews:
Dedoimedo - A Place to Learn a Lot About a Lot
Dedoimedo is a website dedicated to technology and software education, science, art, and (dark) humor. Its mission: to provide most detailed and accurate guides and articles you will find on the Web, on a wide range of topics, including operating systems, application reviews, security, and more
www.dedoimedo.com
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Personally, I'm not using Linux anymore.
This is problem is mostly just on paper. I'm using Manjaro for few years now and i never have any problems with it.
Ubuntu bricked my PC so many times i even stoped counting
- Jan 21, 2018
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You may have already used this resource as you say you've been looking at various distros for gaming, as @Gandalf_The_Grey mentions DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. , their 'Find/Submit Distro' tab, advanced option lets you filter all sorts of aspects you might want, or not want, for your possibly yet to be discovered favourite flavour of Linux.
The only thing I will mention about the AUR (being this is a security forum) is that I wouldn't recommend just downloading anything and everything off of it. For those who don't know, the AUR stands for "Arch User Repository," meaning that it is a repository of programs that is maintained by users, not by the main developers of Arch. Because of this, there is always the potential that someone could upload something maclicious to the AUR. There are very respected AUR users that watch over this, but they cannot gaurentee that they will catch everything. If you are going to use the AUR, you have to do your reasearch on the entry. Look at the comments, votes, but most importantly the PKGBUILD so you know what it's doing. This is where having an understanding of Linux and basic knowlege of these scripts will come in handy.
I haven't tired it, but I honestly wouldn't bother with it. As I've said in my previous post, you can game pretty much on any distro on linux, it just may take a little more tinkering to get it going on some distros. Having a "gaming" distro really isn't necessary. I would just stick with main distros instead of these one off "gaming" distros. Some aren't even maintained by the main developers. Many of them are just side projects for someone, so really you have to look to them to keep things going, which is too much of a hassle IMHO.
Agreed!
This is where people start to hate Linux IMHO.
@grimreaper1014 I would follow the advice of my fellow forurm members. Continue to use Lubuntu and get comfortable with it and how Linux works in general. A lot of people run into issues because the constantly distro hop and never really take the time to learn thing properly and get comfortable. After which they get very frustrated and stop using it entirely. Each distro will have it's quirks, so my advice would be to stick with Lubuntu as it is based off of Debain/Ubuntu and is traditionally more stable. However as @Fuzzy_Bunny said, anything can break.
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I second this advice. Its the same as when a new person starts using Windows, Android, iOS etc, there is a learning curve. Patience is rewarded. Usually!
- Jun 24, 2016
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Can't say it's the best, aforementioned by Raiden what changes here is the development and work behind to set it up on a more "gamer way". I've tried Ubuntu, ElementaryOS, God forgive me I even tried Kali, everything gave me trouble to play. I'm a big fan of League of Legends, and in Ubuntu I spent days trying to install it and then fix the random crashes. As soon as I installed Manjaro I ran two commands and League was installed and running.
Okay guys I got a question I'm probably going to sound dumb for asking this but I really can't figure it out. I installed gufw. It says I need to go to system/administrator/firewall configuration. The problem I am having is this is not as easy as going to start/control panel like on Windows. I have clicked and tried reading everything I could possibly find pertaining to this question. I can't seam to find an answer. Can someone please tell me how to get into Lubuntu's equivalent version of a control panel please lol?
- Apr 24, 2016
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Is there a LXQt Configuration Center?
Thank you sir for your help. I didn't know there was an actual Lubuntu manaul lol. All the directions I been reading and fallowing are generally for ubuntu. I searched the start menu and everywhere else I could possibly look for it and didn't see and icon to launch it anywhere. It does come up when I type in the command lxqt-config. Is there a way I can send it to the desktop so in the future I can access it quicker? in lxqt at the top left I went to "Send to Desktop" I tried to sent it to desktop 1 but it is greyed out. So it won't let me send it there. So I tried desktop 2. It is still not on my desktop. So there was an option to send it to all desktops. I pressed it. Still nothing on the desktop lmao.Is there a LXQt Configuration Center?
Also, there is no option for Administrator in LXQt panel so how can I get here? To access GUFW, go to System->Administration->Firewall configuration.Is there a LXQt Configuration Center?
I am trying to turn on the firewall it should be installed now. I ran the fallowing commands.
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install gufw -y
I see no option for gufw in the start menu either. I would of figured once it was installed I should get an icon somewhere to turn it on and configure it.
Im installing KDE Plasma Desktop and System Settings. I think these are what I am looking for. My hope is that KDE Plasma will give me the shortcuts I need when I click on the start menu. I think System Settings is basically the equavillant of Windows control panel. So once I install it I should have access to the system settings shortcuts I need. I guess if I mess up to bad I can always reinstall.
After installing they did neither of the things I thought they would. Actually doesn't look like they did anything at all. Deleting them and looking for another solution.
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Lubuntu is very basic, but also very fast.
If you like the KDE Plasma Desktop more and need to reinstall, better start with Kububu.
Other options:
If you like the KDE Plasma Desktop more and need to reinstall, better start with Kububu.
Other options:
Distributions with Plasma and KDE Applications
Choose a Linux distribution and start using KDE applications and Plasma
kde.org
It didnt make any changed at all. So I removed them both. I thought it was going to give me the shortcuts I needed to access the things I wanted find but it didn't. How about I ran those commands to install gufw and here it never installed even though it said it did. I finally stumbled onto Muon Package Mananger. I went in there and typed in gufw and sure enough it pops up and says it is not installed. I'm scratching my head on that one.Lubuntu is very basic, but also very fast.
If you like the KDE Plasma Desktop more and need to reinstall, better start with Kububu.
Other options:
Distributions with Plasma and KDE Applications
Choose a Linux distribution and start using KDE applications and Plasmakde.org
Now that I know there is a user manual I think I am going to take a step back and try to read the whole thing. Watching and reading little bits in pieces of different things is helpfull. However, it is not giving me enough information to really get things going. I need like a Linux book for dummies or Lubuntu for dummies lol. I feel like I'm getting overwhelmed a little bit. However, I do enjoy things that give me a challenge. So if nothing else it is keeping me busy and entertained. I just have to remember to take a step back and take a break when I get frustrated. I feel like this is something I could really enjoy. I just have to go about it better so I don't get overwhelmed, stressed out, and hang up the boots lol.
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And if you install it through the Muon Package Manager does it get in the menu?
Negative and I don't see it anywhere. I don't understand this at all. I would think that when you install something you should either get a start menu option for it or a desktop shortcut like you do it Windows. I feel like you need a dang command for everything lol. Me: 'I need to move my mouse couser 3 inches to the left.' Lubuntu "Sorry you did not enter the right command to achieve that function. Please try again later when your educated." hahaha
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I actually think it would be better for OP to give Manjaro KDE a try, installing gufw is easy as opening the store, writing gufw in the search box, hitting the install button and entering your admin password
