On a fine morning, I realized I haven't used my Windows partition on my laptop, for a very long time. Casually checking and found out, to my horror, it had the luxury of taking up 100GB in my 250GB SSD!
So, I decided to remove Windows from my laptop, and my life, completely. The last reason I was keeping my Windows around was my Steam and Battle.net games. I have started to play my Steam games on my Linux recently, and I don't play that many games anyway.
For the replacement, I decided to try Elementary (https://elementary.io/). It is a real beauty, learning all the aesthetic of OSX, with Linux as the OS, sounds like a big win for me. The trial via USB is an instant sold (almost all Linux distribution let you test it out by just booting from USB, if you don't know, you should try it). So I install Elementary into my Windows partition.
The boarding experience is superb. For new Linux user coming from Windows or OSX, Elementary provides a perfect bridge for the crossing. Too bad though, as soon as I setting up my working environment, I recognized Elementary is not for me. To be exact, Ubuntu, which Elementary based on, is still, not for me.
Elementary has it's own software centre, which provides an easy to use GUI for the user to install/uninstall their curated software. It is good, for new users or someone willing to start fresh. Since I still need to be productive in my work, I am going to need to install a lot of my usual tool: vscode, Chromium, Terminator, Pomodoro timer, etc. Since all of my old tools are not in the curated list, I end up doing a lot of `apt get`. It didn't take me long to have 10 different `apt` repositories. I missed my Pamac already.
That's not the biggest issue. Most Linux works that way. I believe their software centre, once disable the curated filter option, can help me with all the packages hell. The biggest problem is the baseline resource requirement.
With a fresh boot in Elementary and a single terminal opened with Bashtop, my CPU settles at around 2.5GHz. 1 GB of RAM is gone from the get-go. In my Manjaro KDE Plasma, my CPU settles around 800MHz, with Firefox, Chromium, vscode opened. RAM is about the same at fresh boot.
I have already spent three years in Manjaro (which stays happily in a 50GB partition). I used it 98% of the time, for work and leisure. So, instead of dual-booting another OS (or Linux distribution) alongside my Manjaro, I decided to install a fresh Manjaro in my 100 GB, which later, will conquer the rest of the HDD and be the only OS.
Manjaro it is.
So, I decided to remove Windows from my laptop, and my life, completely. The last reason I was keeping my Windows around was my Steam and Battle.net games. I have started to play my Steam games on my Linux recently, and I don't play that many games anyway.
For the replacement, I decided to try Elementary (https://elementary.io/). It is a real beauty, learning all the aesthetic of OSX, with Linux as the OS, sounds like a big win for me. The trial via USB is an instant sold (almost all Linux distribution let you test it out by just booting from USB, if you don't know, you should try it). So I install Elementary into my Windows partition.
The boarding experience is superb. For new Linux user coming from Windows or OSX, Elementary provides a perfect bridge for the crossing. Too bad though, as soon as I setting up my working environment, I recognized Elementary is not for me. To be exact, Ubuntu, which Elementary based on, is still, not for me.
Elementary has it's own software centre, which provides an easy to use GUI for the user to install/uninstall their curated software. It is good, for new users or someone willing to start fresh. Since I still need to be productive in my work, I am going to need to install a lot of my usual tool: vscode, Chromium, Terminator, Pomodoro timer, etc. Since all of my old tools are not in the curated list, I end up doing a lot of `apt get`. It didn't take me long to have 10 different `apt` repositories. I missed my Pamac already.
That's not the biggest issue. Most Linux works that way. I believe their software centre, once disable the curated filter option, can help me with all the packages hell. The biggest problem is the baseline resource requirement.
With a fresh boot in Elementary and a single terminal opened with Bashtop, my CPU settles at around 2.5GHz. 1 GB of RAM is gone from the get-go. In my Manjaro KDE Plasma, my CPU settles around 800MHz, with Firefox, Chromium, vscode opened. RAM is about the same at fresh boot.
I have already spent three years in Manjaro (which stays happily in a 50GB partition). I used it 98% of the time, for work and leisure. So, instead of dual-booting another OS (or Linux distribution) alongside my Manjaro, I decided to install a fresh Manjaro in my 100 GB, which later, will conquer the rest of the HDD and be the only OS.
Manjaro it is.