Distro hopping from mint to Manjaro KDE

[JoshQM]

I’m planning on swapping from Mint to Manjaro KDE soon. Is there anything huge that I should be aware of before swapping? (Driver issues, bugs, stuff like that)

[mockedarche]

What's your specs?

[JoshQM]

7 minutes ago, Ohsnaps said:

What's your specs?

PC Specs:

CPU:

- Ryzen 7 1700

MOBO:

- MSI B350M Gaming Pro

RAM:

- G.SKILL TridentZ RGB 16GB DDR4 3200

Storage:

- Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD

- WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM
- Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM

GPU:

- EVGA GTX 1080 SC 8GB VRAM

PSU:

- Corsair TXM Gold 550W 80+

[mockedarche]

3 minutes ago, wookzi said:

PC Specs:

CPU:

- Ryzen 7 1700

MOBO:

- MSI B350M Gaming Pro

RAM:

- G.SKILL TridentZ RGB 16GB DDR4 3200

Storage:

- Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD

- WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM
- Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM

GPU:

- EVGA GTX 1080 SC 8GB VRAM

PSU:

- Corsair TXM Gold 550W 80+

The biggest issue i've had has been with wireless drivers. Are you wired or on wifi? What about bluetooth? Is there any software you need on manjaro? This along with other driver stuff could effect driver stability or existence. 

[JoshQM]

2 minutes ago, Ohsnaps said:

The biggest issue i've had has been with wireless drivers. Are you wired or on wifi? What about bluetooth? Is there any software you need on manjaro? This along with other driver stuff could effect driver stability or existence. 

I’m on a wired connection, I only use Bluetooth every now and then for a controller. I should be fine on the software side since I’m still going to be dual booting win10 primarily for VR and a few Adobe products for school.

[wasab]

I distro hop every 6 months. I never had to worry about drivers. What I do worry about is getting all my favorite applications downloaded and running. 

[vorticalbox]

12 hours ago, wasab said:

I distro hop every 6 months. I never had to worry about drivers. What I do worry about is getting all my favorite applications downloaded and running. 

I have a sh script that installs docker, vscode and the like so when I hop I can get working very quickly.

 

Good idea to write down a list of commands as you're settings up for next time.

[wasab]

11 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

I have a sh script that installs docker, vscode and the like so when I hop I can get working very quickly.

 

Good idea to write down a list of commands as you're settings up for next time.

I write one sh script for every distro. Gets tedious fast. 

[vorticalbox]

14 hours ago, wasab said:

I write one sh script for every distro. Gets tedious fast. 

I use Debian based mostly so i only really need one script.

[Sir0Tek]

I've set up MX and Manjaro in subdirectories, as long as they have their own /home it's no problem at all. Only one is allowed to manage /boot. No need to hop...

[Koeshi]

Your hardware should be fine.  The main things I think you should be aware of are; the different approach to updates, Manjaro uses much new software than Mint does and this can come at the cost of stability on occasion and also if you are used to using PPAs, they are not supported in Manjaro and so you will need to either get used to using the AUR or find other workarounds to get the software that you want.