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I will recommend Manjaro for anyone that wants arch without the install hassles.

https://manjaro.github.io/

I went with Antergos (http://antergos.com/) and I love it. The install is hassle free also. It's fairly light, looks good, and gives you plenty of DE options without getting bloated.

I REALLY wanted to like Manjaro, but it was too buggy. When it was running, it was a smoother, more functional GUI than my barebones Openbox window-manager, which was great.

But... During the past 5+ years, I rarely ever had a problem with Arch Linux that is not 100% my fault. Manjaro... it had some problem every few days; updates DB would become corrupt, random freezes, login GUI would stop functioning...

I suppose my main complaint was that Manjaro could be great it it simply eased the installation and setup of Arch Linux. I do not understand why they use a completely separate repository. Hopefully they continue to improve!

Unfortunately, I've also had a few problems with Manjaro. I still think it is great and would recommend it, but it certainly is a 'plan to move on' distribution for me. I think I'm going to try Antergos next. I'm not quite ready for the Arch install. If I had a laptop with an Internet connection next to me, I'd probably have a go, but being a single comp desktop...will try Antergos for a few months.

I have Ubuntu on one machine, Mint on my work desktop and Manjaro on another.

Manjaro is by far the most stable and problem free. It required a bit of tweaking to set up, and there have been a couple of times when I needed to run a command to reset the package manager to a usable state though.

(To be fair I push the Mint box hardest in terms of installing stuff and tweaking things. Its only been good since I went to XFCE as Cinnamon tended to hog the CPU randomly).

ah, you want Antergos then.

Thanks for sharing this!

An installer for Arch Linux is something I've been wondering for quite a while and didn't know it already exists :-)

If I had the time, I would like to try a real install, as I am sure I would learn a fair bit, but sadly I don't (or I have higher priorities).

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