I had to remove and re-pair the devices, but I have thusfar failed to get this working consistently throughout reboots and when switching to and from my other OS. Even though my keyboard (and trackpad) pair on a hardware level, and even though the OS seemed to be aware of them and even claim they were connected, I couldn't actually type or anything. I am not sure if this is very specific to my hardware, or if there is something else going on, but I was having a lot of trouble using my bluetooth-connected keyboard from boot.
Bluetoothīluetooth works out of the box, but not entirely. I guess I should have removed all other drives, but this being a test to see how mature Linux as a desktop OS is, I wanted to see how it would work in a normal, expected setup. Unfortunately it does seem like Manjaro ended up screwing up my main OS drive's boot partition, even though I specifically said it should install to this SSD. I added an SSD to my system that will be dedicated to my Linux setup. Installation was pretty straight-forward, as most OS installations are these days I suppose. This is really not a how-to guide, more a personal diary of sorts of me becoming familiar with a new-to-me environment. As I am very new to using Arch, I'll more than likely be making more than a few mistakes along the way, so keep that in mind. What follows is a short series of posts with my notes that I've written out while trying out this experiment, both positive and negative. For my next experioments I have chosen Manjaro 18.5.1 with KDE Plasma - the recent-most version as of this writing. But I also wanted to try something other than Ubuntu.
Manjaro has been at the top of my list to try, because I've heard many good things about it. I would not want to rely on any OS other than Linux for any server setup, but for a Desktop OS it has always been incredibly hard to beat macOS for me. Previous attempts at doing this failed due to a combination of things, most of which are related to my personal preferences, but also have been at least in part due to some OS, UX or software limitations. I've been meaning to try Linux as my primary desktop OS again, to see if it has come to the point I am able to actually do this.
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