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Switched from Manjaro to Fedora after being told Manjaro is "a bad distro" by many. Looking for a telnet terminal such as Syncterm to run on rpm or flatpak. (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Welp, I made a similar thread yesterday regarding Manjaro but I decided to swap to Fedora as my daily driver for stability purposes. Unfortunately since fedora is yet another non Debian distro I need help finding a Syncterm replacement.

I'm my previous thread it was pointed out to me that syncterm has a docker option which I can run on Fedora, but I'd prefer running an app locally if possible.

I tried the Syncterm snap package which boots inside bash, but it doesn't have ANSI support (which is the entire point of using Syncterm) since I assume it's simply piggy backing off of bash- hence the 1.5* review on the snap store.

Looking for options.. if anyone can help a Linux noob I'm all ears. I tried Alien to convert deb to rpm and fell on my face.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You should try Crystal Linux, it's Arch based, and it has the easiest installer ever.

https://getcryst.al

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So... using Manjaro without using the AUR is fine?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes*. Unless of course the Manjaro makes some dumb mistake as they have regularly historically. There is nothing wrong with it by design though if you avoid the AUR.

A lot of the “working for years” comments here look like folks who only use the Manjaro repos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I've heard that Manjaro is a "bad OS", but I've been using it for a few years and haven't had any issues with it. As a noob, though, is probably avoid most Arch distros, though. They're not impossible or anything, but they can be intimidating and may leave a bad taste of Linux in your mouth if they're not set up right. I do like Fedora quite a bit. It and OpenSuse are my dailys. Mint was my go-to for years, and I would still highly recommend it for beginners. (E) Mint is a deb based distro.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I have been running CachyOs for some months and I really like it, it is a clean and fast distro based on arch with many DE. You could give it a try on a live usb at least.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've been using Manjaro for 5+ years with no problem. Manjaro is a rolling distro, and unfortunately there is not enough volunteers in open source community to maintain a bleeding edge rolling distribution that is completely bug free. It is just a matter of personal preference how close to bleeding edge do you want your system to be between Arch, Manjaro, Endeavor, and OpenSUSE. I found that Manjaro is quite useful to have because I run non-FOSS programs like Dropbox, Zotero, MegaSYNC, and MATLAB.

One tips I have is that don't bother to update every other week. There are plenty literal supercomputers running on outdated Linux OS or stable distro releases like Fedora. Linux by default is already more secure. Just because there are updates available doesn't mean one should do it, unless you need the bleeding edge updates due to your line of work. I thought we install Linux to run away from annoying Windows updates. If you update Manjaro like every 6 months or so, it is pretty unlikely (statistically) that you get a bad update.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you want to go back to something based on debian, consider PopOS!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Looks like Syncterm is available in the AUR.

Open up Pamac, your graphical package manager, and click on the 3 lines in the top-right corner.

At the bottom of the window, click Third-Party, then enable AUR support.

Search for Syncterm and it should show up now.

Getting packages not in official repositories is significantly easier in Arch-based distros like Manjaro than Debian-based distros or RPM-based distros. It's a major reason why I never use either for personal computing.

Disclaimer: I've been a Manjaro user for 3+ and seeing people recommend Fedora over Manjaro just further cements in my mind that the vast majority of people in this community are not worth listening to.

Do you notice how many people in this thread are recommending you different distros instead of simple instructions on how to get Syncterm to work with Manjaro?

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