From Noob To Power User With Manjaro KDE

[@arghyaS]

Some of the things that DT missed but a KDE user loves are: 1. Plasma wallpaper accent color scheme that was made available in 5.25 makes the default theme breeze look great. If you use light along with it, the desktop looks awesome. 2. Bismuth is no longer stable in kde 5.27. Instead its better to use 'kwin autotiling' which uses native 5.27 autotiling and is more stable than bismuth. 3. Konsole actually has a random color scheme option that when enabled, applies new color scheme to a new console window. 4. Although variety is good wallpaper changer, but the default wallpaper manager of kde is very powerful. One can enable picture of the day or can install third party plugins like wallhaven to change wallpapers periodically. 5. Activity is a great option for productivity, specially if you do office work on your personal laptop. I agree, it might not be supported in future, but having different desktop settings in different activities is very good. For example, I have set up to display the documents folder of the sftp server of my work desktop , in my desktop of work activity. This is very handy.

[@samuelitooooo]

Revisiting this now that Plasma 6 is out. Is there an autotiling script that works with 6? P.S. Activities made it over to 6 as well

[@phrtao]

Great video. It is really nice that someone finally makes a video that showcases some of what Manjaro and KDE can do. So often you see videos that just install a distro and show all the default functionality and look and feel. I have been using Manjaro and KDE for 2 years and I find it to be the most flexible system for customisation and set-up, it seems there is almost nothing you cannot do.

[@abhinavgupta8597]

I like how people advertise changing keybindings and themes to become a power user. So a power user is basically someone who has a rice and not someone who uses their system extensively, and most of the time, doesn't care about these trivial things at all.

[@update450]

making your ux terrible is also considered a "power user" thing

[@SisypheanRoller]

It's become a useless term now. I just take it as synonym for "thinks editing config files by hand is cool"

[@NuryPPanaligan]

Keybindings aren't trivial. I would agree with theming though.

[@hardbrocklife]

What else is there other than keybindings? Arch isn't going to suck your peepee regardless of how many windows you have terminal running in.

[@lyxminx1899]

Finally another "From noob to poweriser" video, i really love these! even though i am a tillingwm user. It is a really fun concept

[@souravsingh768]

You look down on them, don't you !

[@lyxminx1899]

@@souravsingh768 ...

[@plazmaguy13yago9]

@@souravsingh768 signature look of superiority

[@_MPP_]

I have been working with Linux servers for 15 years and I use Linux at home too. Arch with KDE is great. I dont have time or interest to tweak some wm's nowadays. Whatever gets the job done.

[@lyxminx1899]

@@_MPP_ Yeah, i get that. I love kde too, but it genuinely hurts me when i try to use a floating wm. So i just couldn't use kde.

[@randomness0]

4:44 if the keys you're trying to set are already in use, then Plasma will prompt you to replace the old one. 5:04 you can see at the bottom left there's an "add application" button, you can click on it add konsole and set the keys for "launch new window" 6:20 are you sure... 7:08 didn't even take a minute 8:06 if you want to edit a file as root in kate, then you can launch kate normally and then when you go to save the edits it prompts for the password. 9:19 rip bismuth you will be missed. 9:31 Manjaro comes with pamac you can open pamac gui go to prefrences and enable the AUR then use "pamac build {package}"

[@quibblegaze]

0:30: 💻 Transitioning from beginner to advanced user in Manjaro KDE through configuration and tweaks. 3:54: 💻 Customizing key bindings in Manjaro KDE for window management and terminal launch. 8:23: ⚙️ Customizing package manager settings for faster downloads and adding window manager functionality to KDE plasma. 12:24: 💻 Customizing Manjaro KDE with new theming options and keybindings. 16:21: ⚙️ Customizing terminal appearance and functionality in Manjaro KDE for improved productivity and visual organization. 20:39: 💻 Customize wallpaper settings and download a repository of wallpapers for Manjaro KDE. 24:45: 💻 Exploring the Octopi software Center in Manjaro KDE, a GUI tool similar to Debian's synaptic package manager, with the ability to display packages from the Aur. Recapped using Tammy AI

[@shauryakalia3296]

i know it was intentionally missed, but you should add konsole keybinding from add application button on the first page itself instead of going to custom shortcuts. Also kate's approach of prompting only when root action is required is better for noob users and even advance users, unless the latter want to do multiple separate actions

[@Gurj101]

is krunner even usefull? You can just search application by hitting super key once and bringing up the startmenu (idk what it is called in kde) . Am i missing something here ?

[@starsetknight]

It's the same thing as the search in the various application menus, krunner is just more familiar to people used to like MacOS Spotlight or Rofi. and it doesn't include the app menu so it takes up less screen space while searching which some people prefer.

[@johanngambolputty5351]

I've used KDE manjaro for the last 2 years, only just recently moved to bspwm for a change, but KDE served me really well, I still use dolphin, KDE settings and system monitor apps (though annoyingly you have to use qt5ct to get them to render correctly and use themes). As far as battery included DEs go, I think KDE plasma is the best one. Pamac gui is also useful occasionally to quickly navigate dependencies and see what files a package owns/creates. I used to map something like krunner (the overview animation) straight to meta, but I totally see the usefulness of having an extra modifier key now, going from lets say two to three modifier keys actually lets you go from 3 to 7 modifier combinations... Also, kate will just ask for your password at runtime if it needs root for something specific (like writing a change to a root owned file). Edit: I did not know about parallel downloads... adding that

[@sonofwotan]

I remember, my first sysadmin position looking over my boss’s shoulder and joking that it was funny that he had such a basic set up. He said, “Kid, ricing is for amateurs. Professionals install vanilla i3 and just get shit done.” Obviously, this doesn’t apply to all of us, but I think there is some truth to the observation that a lot of this theming and ricing comes from people who have the instinct to tinker (our fathers tinkered with their cars, our generation with tech) but don’t actually have any real work that they need to get done on the computer. I know for me, once I started doing sysadmin work, writing code, and later, got into pen testing, I lost all interest in theming or beautifying the desktop. Just give me the most solid, simple base from which to work with. Not knocking anyone BTW, just thinking out loud.

[@kieferhendricks6680]

Great timing, DT! I just switched my Manjaro desktop from Gnome to KDE recently and am always appreciative of the tips!

[@zoltan1953]

I don't particularly care which distro you do next, but I'd like to see you do Xfce. Would also be cool if you could include customizing display managers.

[@1280-user]

The way you edit root files with kate is open it without sudo, and then make the edit, after you attempt to save, it'll then ask for password to temporarily give sudo privileges You just had to continue reading the error message😅

[@The1RandomFool]

Pamac has an option to enable the AUR.

[@epecwokhay]

I have an Nvidia GPU/card in my main rig and for productivity and gaming reasons, I use the proprietary/non-free Nvidia drivers; Manjaro's built-in hardware detection tool makes managing it seamless/painless. Nvidia proprietary drivers can be wonky sometimes and I've had experiences with other distros in which after an update, the desktop environment would fail to launch and I had to use a live USB to chroot and repair. Some people may say that KDE's customization is a bit overwhelming, but personally I really enjoy it because it blends very well with my workflow. In the past when I used Gnome, I would have to install about a dozen extensions to make the DE provide the functionalities I wanted and they could easily break during an update; KDE provides all I want out-of-the-box with no breakage during updates in most circumstances. Oh BTW, you can use pamac as an AUR helper in CLI, but you have to first goto the graphical software installer then -> hamburger menu -> Preferences -> Third Party Tab -> Enable AUR support. Anyways, thx for the very informative video.

[@SB-qm5wg]

That is a real awesome theme. Looks fresh.

[@plazmaguy13yago9]

love how the comment section turned into a majaro vs endeavorOS war y'all don't need to justify your choice of distros to anyone.

[@okay4634]

Yes, wee need to distrosplain.

[@okay4634]

Yes, we need to distrosplain.

Honestly if someone asked me if they should use manjaro, I'd probably advise them against it. If you'd like to have an arch base, try endeavour os or raw dogging arch simply because of the stability. Stability? Yeah. People assume manjaro is more stable than arch due to them holding back packages but in my experience running them side by side manjaro broke while arch chugged on. Manjaro also has the "tradition" of shipping not yet merged feautes that the project developers didn't find good enough to include. The gnome version also ships a ton of extensions and themes with their OS again more often than not against the wishes of the developer. (Check out don't theme me.) Finally aur packages are meant for arch, so the staggered release of manjaro might break them. If you'd like to use the zen kernel with manjaro that isn't an option AFAIK. Lastly manjaro has many incidents in the past oopsie whoopsie forgetting to renew their SSL certs which lead to their site not being available. These facts are based on my personal journey with manjaro and reading the Linux news

[@nathancrabtree2148]

Ye, Arch is a lot more stable. I hate seeing Manjaro recommended for new users, it's only okay if they know what they could be in for and are prepared. If that's the case though they might as well use Arch or close to Arch.

[@okay4634]

I don't freaking understand why Manjarno doesn't hold AUR updates too..

[@nickking7375]

endeavour is shit. (no benefit over plain arch). I use plain Arch or Manjaro. Manjaro because of the Hardware recognition, Printer, Graphics Card... and because it is pretty relaiable and well preconfigured.

@@nickking7375 The benefit is similar to manjaro as in the GUI setup and it has some tools to set up hardware that is not working ootb on Arch.

@@okay4634 That would be a huuge undertaking and i'm not sure even feasible due to the sheer size of the AUR

[@rodneyaltamera4057]

Nice Tutorial. I love this. I have learned a lot form you DT! Keep up the good work. Thanks!

[@quark1512]

Love these videos!

[@JimVincitore]

The dark spots under your eye, on temple, and upper cheek might be Blepharitis, "dry eye," possibly from looking at screens all days. Go to eye doctor and get a prescription for Restasis (daily eye drops). FYI: There are three type of tears in our eyes, one of which washes away the dirt. If it does not work properly, the dirt does not rinse away, and that causes the brown spots and grainy feeling eyes. Over the counter drops help, but Restasis is best. That's what happened to me. Blepharitis is serious, I read it can cause blindness.

[@PhilOforte-bh6fp]

I've been using lubricating gel or Poly Gel. I've never heard of Restasis.

[@JimVincitore]

The grainy feeling and brown spots kinda comes and goes too. I can go for months without using Restasis, then the graininess and brown spots come back. I mentioned that to my eye doctor a few months ago, and he said he hears that a lot.

[@PhilOforte-bh6fp]

​@@JimVincitoreThanks for the words of advice and caution. Dry eye syndrome is common among avid Linux users.

[@PhilOforte-bh6fp]

KDE is better than XFCE. When I used XFCE, I had more mouse issues, password recognition blips, WINE broke, Timeshift stalled, and eventually XFCE failed to boot. With KDE, I've had no such problems. Works great!

[@Fjord1909]

This is the video tutorial I have been looking for. Getting back into Linux after being away from it (Fedora) for about 12 years, I figured Arch (ArcoLinux) is for me and Manjaro would help me ease into it. I feel like a noob all over again. My GF inherited a laptop computer with Parrot OS already installed. It would be nice to see DT do a similar video on this Debian distro apparently geared toward penetration testing (pt). Hopefully seeing DT go through the install and settup will give me some ideas on getting this computer in a usable state for the GF; certainly not for pt use. It was reported to her that this computer has a virus on it. I have my doubts on that matter but I don't know how to safely find out for sure and clear out the malware if indeed such is on there.

[@m.m3633]

Use clam-av (I'm not sure about the spelling) for virus checking.

[@JimVincitore]

It's been a few years since I thought about it, but the main reason to use KDE is for Korn Shell programming.

[@aurkom]

How to download and set the theme-ing from the CLI? So that it can be scripted instead of setting it manually?

[@MyurrDurr]

4:45 This is a plasma bug :D It will only close windows with your new shortcut only if they are opened AFTER you set the shortcut!

[@apina2]

Your other video with Mint led me down to a path that ended with Arch and Openbox and that's where I stayed. And I never used Mint heh.

[@quarteratom]

You can type the program you want to launch right in the start menu, after pressing the WINDOWS key. Alt+F4 is the traditional keybinding for closing a window, it's good. Navigating with the mouse is faster than the keyboard. Normal desktop environment is always better than a tiling window manager. A desktop should have icons.

[@Twis7]

That sweet-theme-full-git is not working anymore. Any suggestions what to use in kde 6 ?

[@m.m3633]

I really agree with you that octopi doesn't get the love it deserves. Pamac to me is just like Gnome software, it's ui is odd and not so intuitive imo.

[@OrkhanJulfa]

I have some weird troubles with Manjaro. Installed Windows on motherboard SSD and Linux Manjaro on external SSD. After 2-3 days of fresh installed Manjaro, wi-fi adapter stop connecting to the internet or struggling to do it. That is not happening with Windows or EndeavourOS.

[@ariesleoiran4848]

Thank you for making Manjaro content and not being part of those who try to cancel it with false claims (always the same people btw).

[@plazmaguy13yago9]

such as?

[@starsetknight]

I mean, there's nothing wrong with using Manjaro, but you can't say false claims and be right lol.

[@youdontknowme2508]

Not false claims though

[@okay4634]

Manjarno's claims are valid.

[@NoLoginIdea]

What keyboards, hands ppl have to use shortcuts like super+shift+? That combo feels horrible.

[@bassplayinuk]

I used key binding for my main apps. Meta + f for Firefox etc. Very convenient.

[@apintleg]

Great video DT, very good video explaining in a few steps how we can improve our distros, I hope you can do Fedora for the next video.

[@baucelabs1159]

thanks dt.. i didn't know about bismuth.. thanks for doing a video on this my manjaro is on a laptop, and hence doesn't have tons of screen real-estate, and so i never wanted to commit to using a full blown tiling window manager

[@mu4ia]

Finally..... Thank you

[@benderbg]

Fantastic video.

[@Ja.KooLit]

krunner should run automatically if you just start typing on an empty desktop. Atleast thats how I remember it. Anyway, nice one.. Learned something new today. Thanks DT!

[@dr.mikehughes9874]

I guess a dumb question on my part. What is a super key

[@okay4634]

Windows/function key

[@lisanalghaib]

14:21 someone gimme da link of this piece of art called wallpaper

[@devviz]

you lost me at the very first shortcut keybinding, meta+shift+enter!? that's one side of the keyboard to another side, you need 2 hands to do that! the purpose of shortcuts are to shorten movements length, not elongate them

[@mithrial1]

you have two hands, right?

[@okay4634]

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[@Gadrawingz]

Understood big man!

[@MerkDolf]

That is how you get your ls command to display like that I've been searching for the command that did that with not much luck. Thank you I never bothered to look up what krunner did.

[@marioschroers7318]

I seem to have missed this one. The Noob to Power User series is a brilliant take, I love it. In particular, I remember the episode on Ubuntu. KDE Plasma is such a gorgeous desktop environment. Personally, I use dwm now, but I always set KDE Breeze Dark as my GUI shell theme. I love that KWin now features auto-tiling built in. KDE is likely the most polished of all available desktop environments in Linux. Dolphin and Konsole are brilliant as well, always enjoyed the file manager and terminal on KDE when using it in VMs.

[@marsdrums6298]

lolcat is pretty cool with neofetch. I do like that. :) I've used exa for a couple of years now. That's pretty neat as well.

[@oldlonecoder5843]

Omg! ❤❤❤❤❤❤ The absolute "key"word you just said: "super key" - wich is used nowhere (in kde) ... Noted 😊

[@Gurj101]

Isn't there an option to select wallpapers by adding folder ? you could have just assigned the wallpaper folder as the ine you wNted to use after selecting slide show option with changing wallpapers directly in the default settings app

[@jr_Linux]

i love how some people trash manjaro and tell people not to use it. yet DT continues to use it for his videos, i used manjaro for along bit, but now i use arcoD so i can have only what i need installed,

[@luluslovebear]

Is Arch next?

[@jardah81]

Nice tutorial

[@plazmaguy13yago9]

I don't understand why you need a shortcut for application finder when you have a desktop environment you can just launch the start menu instead

[@plazmaguy13yago9]

@MichaelDustter first of all very rude second of all bindings and start menu are not the same however application search bar and start menu are almost identical

[@sergeiepatov7683]

Hey, this lesson is just moving from Level 0 to Level 1. Power User level is something like "I found myself inside unknown distro, and manually changed DE from, for example, Gnome to fresh KDE which I compiled and configured by myself". Or, at least, "I installed Hyprland without youtube and cheat sheets".

[@master138]

8:08 just run kate without sudo privileges it will ask you if you need it.

[@imraan_alam]

Violence. Speed. Momentum = DT

[@RafaCoringaProducoes]

DT NEXT ONE PLEASE: LXQT + i3WM... or sway when it becomes easily avaiable (today its only experimental)

[@penguinpropaganda]

it would be fun if you did this on a cursed distro, something really obscure and annoying

[@oglothenerd]

The Bob Ross of FOSS.

[@hazard1nc]

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and debian bookworm distros next please

[@demodoesedits]

Hello!

[@hanqnero]

Manjaro's package manager pamac that is a layer over pacman allows to download packages from aur

[@starsetknight]

A layer over a text editor? Pretty sure you mean pacman or yay, but some peoplr (like myself and DT) prefer to use the terminal to install applications.

[@hanqnero]

@@starsetknight My bad, over pacman of course! And can it can be used from the terminal too.

[@crusader_]

Bismuth was deprecated lately. The latest 5.27 KDE breaks it and the author is not willing to work on it anymore.

[@MrMontrealSteak]

You don't need a shortcut to open krunner. Just start typing what you want to search for on the desktop and krunner opens.

[@BG101UK]

I like having Octopi around as it's a useful on-screen indicator of when updates are available with its Pacman ghost, and useful for searches on th AUR. I'd then open Konsole to install it as usual, still. Not so keen on Pamac though. Yaourt was better IMHO. Why does it insist on a GUI popup for auth when run in Terminal, except e.g. via SSH?

[@SS-gu2tx]

Long time watcher, huge fan. I've gotta warn everyone and say DO NOT use Manjaro in any form. It will break eventually, it's not a matter of if, but when. No form of Snapshots will help.

[@thenujansandramohan8930]

I have been using manjaro for almost two years and it broke only once even in that time manjaro forum helped me fix it in just a couple of minutes

[@SS-gu2tx]

@@thenujansandramohan8930 You somehow survived the Grub armageddon twice along with other untested updates/releases that broke even the core developers systems.

[@starsetknight]

Yea, I'd never recommend using it but if someone uses it and has no issues than that's completely fine as well.

[@okay4634]

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[@jmwintenn]

any OS will break eventually, welcome to reality. updates that break peoples systems usually break the more edited/customized rigs,like programmers(developers) use. use some common sense and stop spreading your hyperbole.

[@j03y__]

super shift enter, why so many?

[@subhajitmishra007]

Please make it with Fedora but something more than just changing themes!!

[@penguin2137]

i guess the key used by DT to make his 'from noob to power user' videos is more of a DE thing and less of a distro thing. most of the tricks covered with Mint Cinnamon, MX Xfce or Ubuntu with GNOME you can apply on any other distros utilising the specific DE

[@subhajitmishra007]

@@penguin2137 Arigato gozaimas senpai!

[@tailsorange2872]

PowJaro (Power ManJaro) KDE when?

[@ClayTheFoxx]

DT does a ricing tutorial (real) (NOT CLICKBAIT)

[@barrieanderson5851]

Why not just install a tiling window manager and dump kde, dont see point of video

[@mbrav]

Very helpful for supercharging Garuda as well (have been a Manjaro user for 2 years prior to switching to Garuda 6 months ago, never touching that green mold again). Everyone who is unhappy with Manjaro should definitely try Garuda.

[@folksurvival]

People still use Manjaro?

[@lorduggae]

yes we do

[@folksurvival]

@@lorduggae Why?

[@lorduggae]

@@folksurvival Cause it works for us. I've never had a major issue with Manjaro that I didn't cause in over 3 years of using Manjaro. Is it a perfect distro? No. There is no such thing as a perfect distro. I really don't care if a SSL for their website forums or software availability doesn't renew on time.

[@okay4634]

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[@cschannel7502]

KDE 5.27 has built-in Tiling functionality. You don't have to install anything and as "power user" you should know that

[@thenujansandramohan8930]

very very basic tiling features

[@Stroopwafe1]

Yeah, the shortcut he typed at 5:10 actually opened the tiling functionality built into kWin. Interesting how he didn't realise that. I wouldn't say he's expected to know that though, since he doesn't really use KDE

[@okay4634]

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[@okay4634]

@Stroopwafel Search?

[@naderz4064]

Ty so much for keeping politics out of your videos, seems like everyone is falling to this division, I have my own views and would like to just enjoy watching people's content without being preached too by ideologies I don't agree with, great informative content, keep it up good sir!!

[@christopher480]

lol you are not going from noob to power user in 28 mins.......lollolllol

[@hey3814]

All these Endeavour marketers, sheesh Manjaro and Endeavour are different beasts. If you aren't recommending Manjaro, please recommend something with slow-ish update schedule. Not everyone (especially newcomers) wants the frequent update of pure Arch

[@InfinityN]

Manjaro is almost as frequent. It's just artificially delayed for no reason which causes more problems than it solves. See the endless issues with manjaro installations imploding at seemingly random. If you want something slower, don't use anything arch based.

[@wasifalam5965]

​@@InfinityN i installed manjaro without having any issues and its working great for me. i never had any experience with Linux before installing manjaro ditching windows totally.

[@SalahElmousa]

Dt😅😅 are the best

[@AbdullahALSHRIQI]

Good Video in the past I think yay install with git not a PacMan it's good information

[@nakibahmed6960]

Do Linux Mint.

[@TheMikal94]

You're not a "Desktop Environment User" and not a KDE user? What are you then? (Asking seriously)

[@Gubei01]

manjaro is a joke of a company, dont recommend using it ever. Also if u can read this u can read the arch installation guide too, so do that instead of manjaro.

[@theperfectionist1607]

Another "pure" arch elitist

[@taiwbi]

😂😂😂

[@k0rr]

Can't believe you did a video on Manjaro. Unsubscribed, nobody should even consider this distro knowing how incompetent the team behind it is. They even managed to break other distros with their patches and can't stop lying

[@limpa756]

Kde is such a mess

[@chrisvo-p2e]

From noob to teenage girl

[@porterhouse937]

From noob to edgelord

[@PrussianJaeger]

I must recommend no one use Manjaro. The company behind it has been very neglectful lately, from letting their website certifs expire to pushing unfinished patches to the stable branch without approval of the devs, to possibly misappropriating funds (the treasurer left because of this). EndeavourOS is a better it-just-works arch distro.

[@thenujansandramohan8930]

Does endevouros provide the ability to switch kernels?

@@thenujansandramohan8930 yes it does in fact it supports all the kernels that can be found in arch's repos

[@nathancrabtree2148]

@@thenujansandramohan8930 Yes. Sudo pacman -S linux-zen

[@nathancrabtree2148]

@@marco31 Manjaro is fine if you're okay with it being more unstable than Arch and are prepared for what you may be in for. It's recommending it to new users without telling them that bothers me because it just simply isn't new user friendly.

[@okay4634]

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[@InfinityN]

Please stop recommending Manjaro. At this point I shouldn't even have to tell you this.

[@nickking7375]

Fanboi? Please Stop complaining without a reason. At this point I shoulden´t even have to tell you this.

[@InfinityN]

@@nickking7375 What are you talking about? I'm not promoting any alternative, what exactly am I a fanboy of?

[@SS-gu2tx]

@@nickking7375 What's he a fanboi of?

[@Lua64]

Manjaro sucks