Distroin'

OK, a real quickie here.

I decided to do a little distro hopping, especially after reading some reviews, etc.  I went out and grabbed the latest version of Manjaro, 0.8.7.1, with the default XFCE interface...  Since I was definitely thinking about the T410s, I grabbed the 64 bit version.  Burned this to a DVD.

A quick live boot to make sure everything worked properly. (It did.)  So, on to the install...  (I sort of hated do away with Lighthouse 64, but...  Well,  I can reinstall it later...)

Manjaro installs quite painlessly.  I probably should've spent a bit more time setting up the partitions, but everything went OK.  I did use the GUI installer.  I may do it later via CLI, just to see how it rolls.

Reboot was clean, and everything came up right as rain.

Except the clock...

The date was fine.  But I had a hell of a time getting the damned clock to show the correct time.  I checked that the system time was correct, and it was.  (Memories of my first run with Manjaro with OpenBox began to drift back.  Though that was on my old Toshiba, the system time was wrong, and I couldn't access the system BIOS to reset.  I had to use a quick boot into a Puppy distro to correct that one...)  So, off to the web.  A quick check found the Manjaro for Beginners information...

My timezone was not set properly (even though I'd set it during installation).  So, after resetting that, and downloading/installing the Network Time Protocol (anything to get this thing working...), I...

...still had wrongly set clock.  So I finally just reset the system clock from the terminal.  After a bit too painful wait, the correct time showed up on the panel, and my blood pressure began to settle just a bit.  (Yeah, I did do the obligatory reboot, just to make sure...)

Otherwise, I like what I see here.  I've always liked the XFCE experience.  (My favorite with it was Saluki.)  It seems fast and smooth.  Everything seems to be working out of the box.

However, it's hitting 1 am here, so I'm not really in the mood to do much "testing"..

Besides, I'm zoning out to old MythBusters' episodes.  In a showdown between playing with Manjaro, and watching Kari Byron...

Well...