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I find Apricity OS (Arch Linux) much better suited for developers. In fact at work I switched from Ubuntu to Apricity. Through yaourt (paceman frontend) and AUR (Arch User Repository) it's a breeze to install the latest versions of literally everything you need be it Docker, Java or IntelliJ. I think it's comparable with brew. Plus Apricity looks so much better than Elementary in my opinion and almost manages to give you that macOS feeling.

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Why not Manjaro? Does Apricity ship Arch packages passed through the its own repositories doing some testing and making sure core components are not broken and work well one with each other in the Apricity terms and in general? Manjaro does that, there is a kind of release cycle, every 1 or 2 week updates come, ie updates come not directly from the Arch repos (except AUR stuff obviously).

(sincerely) Why Manjaro and not just straight Arch?

I used pure Arch for a few last years as a main system on my laptop (installed and configured in console manually, so I'm not a full newbie), and have used other Linux distributives before that also as a main system. Arch is fine, but unfortunately I recently realized that I need more stability and that's why I switched to Manjaro. I'm still not sure, but seems they do some tests and polishing taking Arch packages, making sure core components work well, etc.

PS I installed Manjaro not using GUI installer, since it doesn't support disk encryption well enough, and I don't use GRUB (default Manjaro boot loader), but refind.

I love Arch and I've installed it on plenty of machines, but I've already grasped what little pedagogical value the install procedure contained and now mostly want to have the computer automate that process while I work on other things. Hence I installed Manjaro on my wife's laptop last night.

That is pretty!

I may have to give this a try when the time comes. By far the best looking Linux GUI i've seen yet.

I can't wait to see an a GUI layer made for NixOS though. I really want to be done with stateful OSs, NixOS is so tempting.

From a previous discussion of Apricity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11421395

From the screenshots I've seen it looks a lot like ChromeOS. Also the fonts looked hideous but that might be the particular set-up I saw.

Oh Apricity looks really nice. Might have to check that one out. Love Arch way more than Deb based distros.

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