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Just booted up for the first time!

Coming from an aging Debian install on an old desktop running , I have to say gnome has gotten jaw-droppingly pretty since I last looked at it.

Not enough exploring to say much about the deeper experience, but the first impression gives is quite polished.

I was especially impressed to see supported as part of the new user setup. This small nicety got much of my productive life (calendar, contacts) up and running quickly.

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@RussSharek just got a Purism laptop last week as well. PureOS works fairly reasonably, but I ended up moving to Manjaro and it runs really nicely as well.

Gnome really has come a long way, I moved from a mac, and I really don't miss anything about it already.

@yogthos

Curious...What made you decide to switch away from pureos?

@RussSharek I had a bit of trouble finding packages for the apps I use, even had to add a third party repo for Firefox.

It seems like there's also less documentation available, I did a system update and grub got in a funky state where it would try to mount the volume before asking for the password, couldn't really find any help with that.

I got things mostly working the way I wanted eventually, but figured I might as well try Manjaro before I settle and ended up liking it better.

@yogthos

From what I understand it's Debian testing, so I didn't need a lot of new documentation to get comfortable.

How much manual configuring did Manjaro require?

@RussSharek yeah I ended up going through Debian docs for the most part. I pretty much didn't do any manual config with manjaro, everything just worked. It even comes with nice touches like night mode out of the box.

I recommend trying it out from a USB stick to see how you like it compared to pureos.

@yogthos

Cool! I might put it on the list for after I'm done poking at pureos.

@maecah

I believe it's based on Debian testing, so yes?

Anyone know for sure?

@RussSharek I mean what kernel version do you have there?

@RussSharek
You can "cat /etc/apt/sources.list" and see what repos it uses.
@maecah

@eladhen @maecah

For the curious:

uname -a

Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.15.11-1 (2018-03-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

deb repo.puri.sm/pureos green main

@RussSharek @maecah
Are there any other repos on /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ ? If #purism are keeping their own separate repos that seems either redundant (if it's a clone of the entire debian repos) or crippled (if it's only some of it)...

@eladhen @maecah

I think the goal is a clone of the Debian repo with all non-free components removed. I'm mobile at the moment, but I'll look at the sources more carefully when I have a moment.

@RussSharek @eladhen Uhm, that’s how I understand it too, that it comforts to the libre philosophy entirely. Which is what makes it interesting.

@RussSharek @eladhen Thanks for the info, much appreciated!

I'll give it a spin soon myself.