First boot
Here’s an image of the GNOME desktop environment in all its splendor.
At the top of the screen you see the Activities overview and the top bar. The top bar provides access to your windows and applications, your calendar and appointments, and system properties like sound, networking, At the bottom of the screen is a panel hosting 6 icons: Show apps, Firefox, Files, gedit, Terminal, and Add/Remove Software (Pamac).
System update
As with any operating system, the first thing needed is a system update.
Manjaro develops its own command-line and graphical package manager called pamac. It’s a very good utility, simple to use and reliable for installing and removing software. As the image below indicates there are lots of updates needed.
Manjaro doesn’t recommend using pamac for large system updates. Instead, they say big updates should be performed using the command-line pacman utility, whereas pamac should be used for smaller tasks such as installing/removing individual packages.
As a big update is needed, use pacman. Issue the following command in a terminal:
$ sudo pacman -Syyu
Next page: Page 3 – Manjaro Settings Manager
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Installing Manjaro
Page 2 – First boot
Page 3 – Manjaro Settings Manager
Page 4 – Install Intel iHD graphics driver
Page 5 – Other Post-Installation Steps
Page 6 – Remove branding
Complete list of articles in this series:
| Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC | |
|---|---|
| Part 1 | Introduction to the series with interrogation of system |
| Part 2 | Benchmarking the Mini PC |
| Part 3 | Installing Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop |
| Part 4 | Configuring Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop |
| Part 5 | Power Consumption |
| Part 6 | P-Cores and E-Cores |
| Part 7 | Gaming |
| Part 8 | Installing and Configuring Manjaro |
| Part 9 | BIOS options |
I’ve always considered Manjaro to be a somewhat mickey-mouse distro. Any distro that tells its users not to use their GUI package manager for big installs is hard to take seriously. But for beginners, I guess it’s easier than trying to fathom getting everything working in Arch.
While I understand where you’re coming from, that’s harsh criticism in my opinion. I’m a keen supporter of Manjaro. Apart from the odd hiccup with NVIDIA drivers, it’s never interfered with my workflow unlike many rolling distros.