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Arch Linux For Newbies? Manjaro Is Here!

Posted by timothy on from the kill-a-whatnow? dept.

Penurious Penguin writes "Well within the top ten Linux distros, Arch Linux has a strong following for sure. But with an installation process requiring a little more involvement than the average distro, not every prospective user is ready to embrace the Arch Way, and understandably so. This is where Manjaro steps in. With a 100% compatibility with Arch, uncompromising adherence to principia KISS and a pre-configured Xfce, — or alternatively available GNOME & KDE — those who've been hesitating to explore Arch now have a few less excuses. And a little side-note for those still bitter about the lack of package-signing: You'll be glad to know that Arch fully implemented package-signing in June of 2012."

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  1. Chakra? by mhh91 · · Score: 4, Informative

    How is this different from Chakra?

  2. Re:love Arch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Its very neat, right until you get bitten by the bleeding edge software updates.

    I've had my system rendered unbootable or at least without working wifi or graphics drivers a few times after updating.
    Its a nice linux distro with a russian roulette feature built-in