Manjaro XFCE: Faster than light

The title is an exaggeration obviously but Manjaro XFCE is really darn fast even on my old Acer 5510 - single core AMD laptop. In fact, i'm doing this blogging thing while on the live usb and installing it to an 8GB micro SD inserted to a chinese clone mp3 shuffle so don't laugh at me.

Manjaro XFCE Desktop

Manjaro Install

The latest Manjaro XFCE has all the goodies for you to start with casual browsing or just a quick tour of its innards and you won't get dissapointed. While Firefox is the pre-installed browser to get you going, you could easily install cromium browser by typing "sudo pacman -S chromium". Connecting to wifi is just a few mouseclicks away thanks to the thousands of devs who wholeheartedly dedicate patching the kernel to get us the coolest stuff in Linux. The default XFCE flat icons are so cool and really compliments the modern look and feel of the entire Manjaro expirience and I fell in love with it on first sight.

Default XFCE Icon Set

Manjaro is based on Arch Linux which is on its own is a little bit to the technical side of things and when i tried installing it reminded me of the old windows 98 days installing from the command line and memorizing all the dos commands you can possibly use to make it run. Well we now have GUIs so the install process is pretty easy even a six year old can do it. But in the CLI install process, you have to do the disk partitioning etc etc which if you're new to linux can get you in a lot of trouble. I just installed and re-installed manjaro four times in CLI and it fails every time it get to the formatting part but maybe because i was using a USB as the boot drive instead of the 'ol regular hard drive.

CLI Installer

Libre office also comes pre-installed so your office tasks are surely covered although I haven't tried connecting a printer to it yet because my printers are broken but i think that printing is plug n play so you can start printing lorem ipsum immidiately or your class project if you will. USB devices and other peripherals are instantly detected like they always should. The fonts are great for my taste but sometimes i need  to install specific fonts just for the heck of it. Steam also comes pre-installed so you can start playing your linux  games and i read some popular games will be coming to linux this year.

If you're a student on a budget or one that needs flexible, light and secure system, don't look anywhere else and install Manjaro XFCE.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/manjarolinux/files/release/0.8.12/xfce/


Website: https://manjaro.github.io/