A lot of people are telling you to not use manjaro and to use endeavour instead. I’ve been using manjaro for 6 years and it’s fine, in the end they offer very similar user experience.

For package management, I do everything with yay now. Just calling it on it’s own will update everything, with keywords it will search and ask you what to install. The only flag you have to know is -R to uninstall.

For the shell bash is perfectly fine, but if you want more features take a look at ohmybash.

Manjaro is not a good Arch downstream afaik. What they try is like produce a stable Arch, like Debian Sid vs. Stable.

But if they do that, they need an automated QA path so that packages are put in based on how they work, and not just delay them by a few weeks all the time.

And hack my stuff like the AUR wouldnt be possible there, they would need to host such packages their own and make sure they work on that specific frozen release.

Its simply more work that what I know they invest. So stay away from Manjaro, use Arch, Opensuse TW, Fedora etc.

how to find in which package an command lies

It’s “pacman -Fx” but it can’t search in AUR packages.

Where did you find lsinput anyway? I don’t think input-utils is in AUR (either that or it’s called something completely different).

As others have said, you can install Endeavour instead. If you want a gui installer, you can still install pamac (Manjaro’s gui for pacman and AUR).

I’m on Arch and I still find pamac useful at times.

The Arch Wiki is excellent. Endeavour has a great community that will help out if you get stuck.

There’s plenty of tutorial videos that can help get you started.

I highly recommend using the man command. Appending --help is also great for when you’re not quite sure what a pacman (or any other command for that matter) works.

How does pacman work compared to apt-get ? and how to find in which package an command lies. I struggled a bit to get lsinput (to configure a rudder pedal for flight sim)

Manjaro has Pamac installed out of the box. Its commands are much more readable:

Install: pamac install {software} Remove: pamac remove {software} Update: pamac update. You can just run man pamac and read that, it’s concise and self explanatory.

You can also use Pamac-gtk (the GUI app-store). I recommend the GTK4 version. Just run sudo pamac install pamac-gtk it will prompt you to replace pamac-gtk3.

You can enable the AUR by opening the GUI store (it will be called “add/remove software” in the app menu) > three dot menu > preferences (will prompt for password) > third party > Enable AUR support.

Only use the AUR as a last resort; check if the app is on flathub first, then the official repos, and finally check the AUR. You can add flatpak support by installing the flatpak package and the libpamac-flatpak-plugin optional dependency.

If you want updates to be as fast as they’d be on Arch you can switch to the unstable branch, and now you can’t blame Manjaro for your AUR problems.

and how to find in which package an command lies.

I am not sure what this means, but if you meant how to check what commands a package provides, then you can search for the package in the app-store and scroll down to “provides” everything under that section is commands the package provides.

I am struggling a bit with Zsh, like I ended up starting bash to configure an environment variable, any ressources on-it. Or shall I simply change my setting (and how) to use bash that I know a bit.

You can edit the ~/.zshrc file to add your aliases and permanent environment variables.

On Arch based distros you can also add environment variables in the /lib/environment.d file as KEY=value, for setting firefox to use Wayland for example.

If you want to switch from ZSH to BASH here’s how.