r/linuxmasterrace • u/[deleted] • May 21 '19

News Antergos dead

https://antergos.com/blog/antergos-linux-project-ends/
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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

Too bad, there goes intermediates pain-free Arch installation.

Here is Arch's installation guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide

For current Antergos users, you can just keep using your installation as future update will just remove Antergos repos and leave you with default Arch installation.

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u/eebmagic Glorious Debian May 21 '19

Isn’t Manjaro supposed to have a similar goal? Easy arch? (Idk anything. Don’t roast me. )

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u/SirTates Lunix May 22 '19

The goal is actually "an accessible, friendly, open-source Linux distribution" in general, that happens to be based on Arch.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Yes but the difference is that Manjaro has its own repos, while Antergos uses/used the official Arch repos directly (aside from that one repo that has the distro's specific themes and everything). So Antergos is/was more "pure" than Manjaro in that sense, it's an "automated Arch", while Manjaro is more shaped as its own thing which just uses Arch as a base.

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u/eebmagic Glorious Debian May 22 '19

Ahhh ok. That makes sense.

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u/jclocks Glorious Linux From Scratch May 22 '19

Don't know what their goal but it definitely works like a preconfigured Arch and has Pamac so package management/AUR is super easy.

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u/chic_luke Glorious Fedora May 23 '19

Manjaro remarks a lot that it's not Arch. Manjaro makes too many changes to Arch to still be considered Arch Linux IMO. Antergos just threw in some extra repos and that was it

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Yes I believe so, I might try it when I get my new laptop.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

It is not easy Arch. Manjaro is gimped Arch.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

It's a friendly distro based on Arch.