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Manjaro

Based On: Arch.

Package Manager: Pacman.

Origin: Austria, France, Germany.

Popular Desktop Environments: Bspwm, Budgie, Cinnamon, GNOME, i3, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE, Xfce.

Update policy: Rolling release.

Home page: https://manjaro.org/

About Manjaro:

Manjaro is an Arch based distribution developed mostly in Europe, it is very popular with users who want to have an experience similar to the one Arch Linux offers (i.e. rolling release, bleeding-edge technologies, pacman, the AUR among others) but who don't want to go through the process of learning the Arch Linux installation and through the likely troubleshooting process that comes after installing Arch because of missing packages.

Manjaro is a very fast, easy to install distro that, at the cost of a couple weeks of wait time can be much more stable than Arch, as it has a testing version where the rolling release can be safely tested before releasing it to the public.

Even though Manjaro has some officially supported desktop environments it also features a lot of community maintained ones, which lets users make any choice of desktop environment, whichever their preferred one may be.

Manjaro emphasizes user privacy and tries to offer the most amount of control over the computer's hardware as possible. It also supports x86_64 architechtures as well as ARM, which makes it a great choice for almost any device.

Manjaro is much better suited to a desktop device as it doesn't feature a server edition, and any server would be resource-limited by the desktop environment that Manjaro is running, even if it is a low-end dekstop environment such as LXDE. Additionally one of the most common goals when configuring a server is stability, which is harder to achieve with Manjaro than with a non-rolling release distribution with long update intervals such as Debian.