Beyond Ubuntu, within the Linux ecosystem we can find a large number of distributions designed to adapt to the tastes and needs of users. One of the most interesting for its security, stability and performance is Arch Linux. However, this distro is also known, to bad, for its difficulty. Luckily, the community created Manjaro, a Linux distro that brings all the good things from Arch, and also brings it in the easiest way that we can find.
Manjaro is an Arch-based Linux distribution that wants to position itself as one of the best alternatives to Windows and macOS. This distro wants to end the image that Arch is a complicated system, taking all the elements of it, from its installation, to a graphical environment that is very easy to use. Even by those users who have never used Linux before.
This distribution is Rolling Release . In other words, it does not receive new images from time to time and forces users to update version after version. By installing Manjaro only once, and bringing the distro up to date through its update system, we can have it up to date.
Despite this, today is an important day for the community of users of this distro. And it is that a new stable version of it has just been released: Manjaro 19 . This is one of the most interesting updates to this Linux distro that has come to all users packed with improvements.
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News from Manjaro 19
The main edition of this Linux distribution is the one that uses the XFCE desktop . This is the edition that has received the most changes and improvements, starting with version 4.14 of this desktops. The developers have mostly focused on polishing the user experience and have released a new theme called Matcha . Screen management has also been greatly improved.
The KDE edition has also been updated, including version 5.17 of the Plasma desktop. In addition, the themes have been updated including new “light” and “dark” versions within the Breath2 theme. In addition, KDE 19.12.2 packages and applications have been included.
Finally, the GNOME edition has also been updated with the 3.34 desktop that offers greater stability and performance. In addition, thanks to Gnome-Layout-Switcher, we can now change our desktop design much more easily for the one we like the most. Of course, light and dark themes have also been included.
In addition to these changes in desktops, the new Manjaro 19 has also brought other innovations at the system level. For example, the leap to Kernel Linux 5.4 LTS has finally been made , along with the latest available drivers. And the package manager, Pamac 9.3 , has also received its share of changes and improvements.
Virtualization within VirtualBox has also been improved, and support for NVIDIA Prime added.
Download or update
This new version of Manjaro is now available to all users. If we are thinking about trying this distro and we want to install it on our PC or in a virtual machine, we can download this new version at no cost from the following link .
And if we already have Manjaro on our computer, we can quickly update to the new Manjaro 19 from the update manager itself. For this we only have to open a termina, or a TTY, and execute the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
When the process ends, we will have our distro up to date.
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