Yes you can but you often see the terminal used when helping people online. This is because it works across desktop environments and mostly across distros, however it does give the impression that the terminal is needed.
That sounds like the splash screen. You can select none in Settings -> System Settings - Colours & Themes -> Splash Screen to get rid of it.
What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
That's not necessarily true any more. There are distros built without the GNU tools.
There's actually five of the furry little psychopaths so I'm very well supervised.
It works fine for me. Not on wayland but that's down to my Nvidia card and I hope explicit sync will sort it out.
Yeah but it rolls. I don't use it but I would guess they're waiting for 6.1 before updating.
If you want to be more up to date, switch to the unstable branch which mirrors the Arch repositories. It will also solve one of the biggest problems with Manjaro, the potential imcompatibility with the AUR.
But they don't have to roll on the bleeding edge. Look at openSUSE Slowroll for an example of a distro that rolls behind the curve.
First of all, Manjaro is still on 5.27??? How is that a “rolling release” distro?
Rolling release doesn't necessarily mean bang up to date although in practice most rolling release distros are.
This nearly Snap-free Ubuntu remix
This snap-laden Ubuntu remix
ftfy
In addition to what's already been said, Canonical have a history of starting grandiose projects and then abandoning them a few years later. See Mir, Unity, and Ubuntu Touch for examples.
Recently news went around about explicit sync being merged into Wayland protocols, and in the wake of that I saw a lot of people having questions about it, and why it was such a big deal… So here’s a short-ish explanation of what it is, why it’s needed and what the benefits are over the old model.
Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for March 2024. This month provided several anticipated updates for the rolling release. Before getting...
