 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. Today we're going to be taking a first look at Manjaro 20.02 GNOME version. I'm actually a pretty big fan of GNOME. We all know that's not true. But I'm a pretty big fan of Manjaro. I just haven't used it for quite a while, but today we're going to be looking at in a virtual machine. So let's just go ahead and take a look and see what this looks like. So when you first boot up the live session, this is what you get. So we're going to go ahead and install this here and see how it works. I'm very impressed that it's allowed me to go full screen right out the bat. Not all Linux distributions do that, not even close. So we'll see American English, race the disk with some swap, even though it's going to give it like half a swap, but that's okay. Now, the last time I did Manjaro, you created a user account in Calamari's right here. Apparently now they're doing a more of a post install user creation, similar to what elementary or pop OS does. That's cool. It brings it more in line with like a mainstream Windows installation, I guess, because you don't create like a Windows user prior to installation or anything. So it's kind of more like Windows in that way, I guess. Mac OS too, I guess too. Yeah. That's interesting. Overall, the theming looks the same as it always has. Let's see how long this takes to install. If it takes quite a while, I will cut this part out. That was a big jump. I like how they put the dock visible on the screen at all times, because like in most genomes, you have to press the Windows key to see that. That's cool. When we get it installed, we'll look and see what extensions come pre-installed, because some of them definitely do. Oh, I have the tile window manager extension. That's cool. That's from pop OS. Nice. Oh, that was a really quick install, too. Good. Give this a reboot. May end up having to... Yeah. I don't know if this is booting off the correct... I'm going to shut this down and make sure that it's... Make sure it's doing it from the right place. Yeah. Well, let me eject it. I've never done that before. I bet you it's because it's saved. Hold on a second. Oh, power off the machine. There we go. I bet you'll let me change it now. Yeah. There we go. I know there's a way to get around that change the boot order, but I'm just having... All right. Hold on a second. I'm going to scoff. Excuse me. COVID. Hopefully not. That's very impressive. In a virtual machine that goes full screen just like that. All right. Make sure... English, US. We can turn those off. We don't need those. Ditch wall. Skip that. Create a username. My name is Matthew Webber, .grmdub. Oh, parental controls. I don't have any little kids running around as far as I know. Sorry, user manager Alex. That was very good. That was very quick. Well, that was a very quick install. It was less than five minutes. Use Sv... Box SVGA to enable window resizing. No, thanks. We don't need to do that. That... That I just dismissed. I probably should have went through that, but that's something new to the most recent genome is a little start screen that will show user... New users how to navigate genome, which is a good thing, I guess. The little start screen here. This is the start screen that has been here for ages and ages on Manjaro. Basic links to documentation, the wiki forums to discover for software. Probably... This is probably links to the software center. No, interesting. That takes you to... What on earth is that? That's weird. So what are these? I didn't even know Manjaro had their own discover applications website. Go away. Again, go away. All right. Anyways, we can get rid of that. That's for the most part. Get involved, donate, you know, I'm a layouts manager. Okay. That is cool. Let's look at... All right. That is really interesting. I've never seen that before. Wow. That's really nice. That's reminds me a little bit of Matae. In Matae, they have different versions that you can use for their window manager that lets you do things like one that looks like Windows, one looks like Mac OS, Classic Genome 2 and things like that. That's kind of like this. That's really, really cool. And this is the standard genome one. That's going to hide the doc off screen. That's really neat. And this is tiling window manager. I wonder if there's a like an alt super. See what the tile... That's what the tiling looks like. Cool. That is cool. Is Neofetch installed now? So let's install some... All right. So this is running ZSH out of the box. Very interesting. So this doesn't come with bash out of the box. That's nice. Running the window manager mutter, which is standard for GNOME. 1,100 packages out of the box. Probably 1,163 packages because they just installed Neofetch using kernel version 5.9.11, which is basically the most recent. I think 5.10 just came out or it's just about to come out. Using the matcha dark sea window manager theme, the matcha sea genome 2,3 theme, and the papyrus dark Maya icon pack. And let's see. I think that's it. I can never remember this. Other Linux YouTube reviewers would know this. Anyway, it's using about 900 megabytes out of the box. Well, I mean almost out of the box. We do have some things running here. So that's not bad for GNOME because usually it's a well over a gigabyte. All right. So the question is how do you get back to that layouts manager? Because I want to go back to this. Apply. All right. Settings. That's here. GNOME 2. Oh, man, it comes with GNOME tweaks pre-installed. This is the preeminent version of GNOME people. I've been preaching for years that GNOME tweaks needs to be installed out of the box because you can't do anything GNOME without GNOME tweaks. You can't change the theme. Let's see what themes come together. Oh, they got some different of the matches. Let's look at this one. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. That one's with green. More keeping what's this one? Red. Do they have a dark red? Yeah. Those aren't the same. Interesting. There we go. That's the favorite right there. That's awesome. Let's see here. Fonts, notosands, and hat. These aren't the same. These are all different. That's really weird. Normally in a distribution, the fonts pretty much are all the same, like brand of fonts, if you will, for mouse, startup applications. Nothing really crazy there. It does start up caffeine automatically, which is, I believe, up here. Or maybe here. Used to be that caffeine was started. When it started up, it would be... Oh, nightlight. That's what that is. I bet you. All right. Top bar. It does have, out of the box, as close, maximize, minimize, and maximize, and minimize, enable, out of the box, which is good. Windows. It does have an extent. I bet you it uses the standard GNOME extensions. I bet you. Yeah. It uses the GNOME extensions app, which is awesome. The latest Ubuntu did not have this yet. So I wasn't able to check it out. So it has an application menu, arc menu installed, out of the box, but not enabled. Auto move windows. I'm guessing that has something to do with the tiling. I bet you if you just wouldn't change to the tiling version. That gets enabled. Dash to dock. Dash to panel. These are all extensions that are going to play a part in these layouts. I bet you. So let's change to a different thing here. See how the dash to dock was disabled, and dash to panel was enabled. That's cool. So it also enables arc menu, which definitely should be the default menu system in GNOME, because it's way better. So that's very interesting. What else you got here? Oh, GS Connects. That's for phones. Game mode. What is game mode? Okay, so it turns off notifications and stuff like that while you're gaming. Okay. Cool. I'm not impressed with the scrolling. So far, PopShall, which is going to be the tiling. Places status bar indicator, pack mic updates indicator, night theme switcher, native window placement, material shell. That's going to be tiling as well. I bet you. And I think that's what Unite, user themes, which is going to allow you to change the different themes on it for the GNOME shell, not just the windows. So this comes with a good number of extensions. I like that, because with standard, like if you install Fedora, you're getting no extensions at all. And if you want to install extensions, you have to go through, get this app and enable them and all that nonsense. And it should happen right out of the box. So what else here? We got desktop icons. Weirdly, this says off, even though we have desktop icons over here. System tray also says off, despite there actually being a system tray over here already. What if I turn that on? What you get nothing? Because it's already on. Maybe something different came up. And it was just too hasty. No. Automatic, dark theme, window tiling, gesture settings. I can't really test that because I don't have a trash trackpad. But if that's what uses that stuff that window that elementary sticks is going to have, that could be really cool. Online accounts, GNOME tweak tool and dynamic dynamic. Oh, cool. Alright, so this looks like it will allow you to change your wallpaper based on like a time of day or something. That's cool. I have to give that a test. Let's see what backgrounds they have pre installed. Some cool. This one's kind of neat. I like lightning. I'm not impressed with the scrolling on this. So far, I'm wondering if it has something to do with my virtual machine. Sometimes the scrolling just doesn't work. I'm guessing it has something to do with the virtual machine. It's going wonky. Let's see here. Yeah, we'll go ahead and do that one. All right, the rest of the settings here look like they're just basic, GNOME settings, color. Can you change like the like in Ubuntu, you can change the appearance a little bit in the standard settings. I wonder if you can do that here. Change between light and dark mode. Probably not. So why would they put it here when they install GNOME tweaks out of the box? Okay, let's see what all comes installed. Shall we all programs? Let's see accessories. Caffeine clocks. Is that GNOME clocks? That is GNOME clocks. Okay. Cool. I like that application quite a bit. Extensions, files, firmware. That's probably to change the drivers and stuff. Gestures. Get hash. That's I think that's to do was calculate message digest and check sums. Okay. HP device managers for printer, covantum layouts. So that's going to be how you get to this. That's cool. Okay. Let's see here. Main menu, add or remove programs from main menu, manager, user guide, maps pre-installed software token. I think that's going to be like a like a what do you call a second factor authentication or whatever kind of thing that's a I bet you that that's that's the GNOME text set or what is called G edit. Yeah, that's it. Weird theme looking though. Well, I mean, nothing else in this thing is so solarized, but this here is solarized. That's a little weird. Let's see here. Go to graphics. G thumb. That's literally the only graphical applications that's installed. Okay, so no GIMP. At least it doesn't get so far. Firefox, Geary, transmission, web apps, what are web apps is that's gonna be something like was what what do they call it starts with an F flutter maybe or something like that where you can create applications out of web apps. That's cool. Let's see here. Office, it comes with cal calendar only office desktop editors. Now see at one point they gave you a choice between LibreOffice and OpenOffice, they did not give us a choice this time. That's interesting. So you're just stuck with only office unless you want to uninstall and put LibreOffice on it because LibreOffice frankly is just way better. That's a little bit disappointing that they took away that choice. Programming icon browser. Okay. Probably any of the icons that are on the system, sound and video. So it comes with lollipop, cheese, videos. This is gonna be like MPV maybe or GNOME videos. It doesn't have an about page. Okay. Not sure what that is. I'm probably the standard GNOME video application. But no VLC. So if you want VLC, you'd have to install VLC. I personally just because VLC will actually play anything. So that's the reason why I like that. System tools. Let's see here. G parted standard. I don't know what LSHW is. Hardware. Lister. I don't know what that is. I'm not gonna open it. Find out parental controls. Oddly it comes with Ranger pre-installed. That is weird. Now if this was like a tiling window manager, by all means I love Ranger. But the fact that it's not, it's installed pre-installed because it also has, I mean, this is Nautilus. That's odd. That's an odd selection. Fonts, disks, characters. These are the standard GNOME stuff. This is gonna make GNOME terminal. GNOME tweaks is here. And other. These are just software, it's where the software update isn't in with settings. That is a little weird. Anyway, so that's the installed programs. Now I don't do install games or anything because this is a virtual machine. So you're not gonna play games in a virtual machine. Overall, I'm really impressed with some of the stuff that Manjaro has done with GNOME. The pre-installed extensions are really cool because it sets the user up to actually be able to use GNOME. The responsiveness is kind of hard to judge in a virtual machine, but so far it doesn't seem bad. I mean, this is a virtual machine and it's just closing and opening really quickly. You know, they pin screenshot to the task mark. That's interesting. Yeah, I mean, the performance seems pretty good. I mean, Firefox is usually the slowest thing to open ever. And that was really quick. I was really, really nice. That's very impressive. I'm not sure if this is as fast as Fedora, but it's also running more extensions than Fedora. So you'd have to keep that in mind. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of GNOME as everybody knows, but this is really, really very attractive. This is a GNOME that I could use if I were to use GNOME. So I think that's a ringing endorsement for me. I'm really impressed with the, like I said, the selection of extensions, the themes that are installed, the fact that it has GNOME tweaks pre-installed right out of the box is just, I mean, I'm the kind of users that can install that on my own. But from a new user perspective, that's really good, because I mean, most new users aren't going to know that it exists without having to Google it. The fact that it's there is awesome. All right. So final thoughts. I really like this. It was really good. It was a nice little first look. I think as I advanced my ability to review distros and stuff like that, I'll probably start installing them on bare metal so that I can do some testing on, like for games and stuff. But for now, this works. Okay. I would say if you're into, if you're looking for a GNOME distro, Manjaro is probably the one that I would tell you to go with because it's the most customized out of the box and will allow you to go through and do your own customizations. So that is it for me this time. If you like this video, give it a thumbs up. If you didn't like it, give it a big fat thumbs down. I really do appreciate both of those because it shows that you interacted with the video. And you're not going to hurt my feelings if you hit the thumbs down. I would probably give it a thumbs down. If you really did enjoy this video, think about subscribing because we upload new videos almost every single day. 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