Newbie at linux and trying out distros and came across Bluestar Linux. Really enjoyed it and was all smooth. However, ran into problems, when booting get an error message regarding wpa2 and not connected (though it does automatically connect to wifi) and then Dolphin would not read my USB flash drive. Not a major issue but had to do searches for what should not have been an issue in the first place.
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Hi Bill,
Bluestar has been around for some years. It should not have major issues.
That is the way to deal with issues.
Bluestar is Arch based. Try and stay away from the AUR if you can.
Regards
Neville
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Will do. I’ve heard that can be problematic. My comment was more to the effect that I was a bit surprised at the issues that popped up. Maybe it was me as a newbie, especially as to Arch, but I have to say I am enjoying Bluestar and will be using it as my daily for a while.
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Hi Bill,
You are doing really well as a newbie starting out with an Arch based distro. Not many new users would succeed with that.
Does Bluestar make Arch easy? It might be the best Arch-based distro for other users…..lots of people ask here about Arch based distros after having had poor experiences with Arch or Manjaro. Maybe we should recommend Bluestar.
The only Arch based distro I have used is Artix. It is non-systemd, so quite different.
Regards
Neville
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I use Endeavour as my daily driver Neville. The community is very friendly and won’t throw insults at you for a “stupid” question. They may ask what you’ve done to troubleshoot, but they’re a good group of people. I have ran Garuda in the past, but it can be quite finicky at times (as can be Cachy, especially on ZFS). I’ve had NO issues with Endeavour. And if, like me, you have an nVidia GPU, Endeavour’s install is as simple as typing “nvidia-inst” at the CLI!
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Hi Matthew,
OK, maybe we need to develop some sort of a ranking of well behaved versus troublesome Arch based distros. I will start it off, based on opinions I read here
| Behaviour | Distro |
| - - - - - - | - - - - - |
| Trouble free | Endeavour |
| | Artix |
| | |
| Minor issues | Bluestar |
| | Garuda |
| | Cachyos |
| | |
| Major issues | Manjaro |
| | Arch |
| - - - | - - - |
Apologies for poor formatting….. what is wrong, it is not interpreting markdown tables? Can anyone fix this?
Please make suggestions based on your experience
Regards
Neville
I read that Bluestar is KDE, and it is supposed to,look like MacOS.
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I tried Arch many years ago in a VM - really didn’t see the point in all that extra “heavy lifting”…
Tried Manjaro i386/i686 XFCE on a Netbook - and was really impressed… Very well done …
Tried a “gaming spin” of Manjaro x86_64 on my desktop and was not impressed.
Tried Garuda on the same desktop and was least impressed - there were several things all running at the same time trying to do the same things - felt like a bit of a kludge and maybe “too many cooks”… i.e. it was setting some things up and displaying terminal windows “doing stuff”… It maybe improved since (this was about 2-3 years ago).
After those - I tried Fedora - but the whole RPM-Fusion thing annoyed me - so I’ve been with Pop!_OS on this desktop machine for over two years now - the same install - that’s something of a record for me…
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I am enjoying Bluestar - just different enough from the others to be compelling. I have Manjaro on an older machine and have had no problems and find it a very good distro. I have had issues with Cachy and Antix, in terms of loading and set-up. I haven’t tried Endeavor yet.
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I hear mixed reports about Manjaro
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Solved my issue with the wpa2 error by re-stalling Bluestar, all good, but now the Kalu returns an error that it cannot synchronize databases. Like this distro but these little things can be annoying. Might have to try out Endeavor.
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What you might find is the pacman database needs to be refreshed or checked, or you might have a key problem.
Use pacman at cli to investigate.
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