Guide to Manjaro Linux

Are you new to Linux or looking for a fast, user-friendly and customizable operating system? Manjaro Linux might be the perfect choice for you. In this article, we will explore the reasons why Manjaro is worth considering, including its customizability, Arch-based nature, system resource efficiency, easy-to-use GUI, gaming capabilities, and more.

Why use Manjaro Linux?

Here are some of the reasons to use Manjaro Linux.

• Customizability – the whisker menu here and one can usually go to appearance and change their whisker menu setup, which you can probably do it, any time if you have Xfce. It lists show category tooltips. So you could easily change the icons and check fonts if you wanted to change.
  
• Arch-based – so if you go over the terminal and if you type neofetch, you can see Pacman, arch base. The pacman has a lot of up-to-date packages.
  
• Manjaro settings manager – so you can easily change your kernel version with this, you can also deal with the graphics drivers, and you could auto-install your proprietary driver or you auto-install an open-source driver for your cards
  
• System resources – at least on the Xfce version, it uses insignificant memory and processing power is high. It uses very little ram and is also attributed to the amount of ram.
  
• Easy-to-use GUI – if you wanted to install a package and were too lazy to sudo Pacman, then you could easily go to this and often install the software. You can typically just click install, and it easily installs it, and you can easily install updates by going over here to updates. It also checks for updates, You can deal with the stuff you installed from a unique source and easily remove them.
  
• Gaming – people like Manjaro as it comes pre-installed with steam.

With this, you can easily install your graphics card drivers if you need to do for gaming that's also really nice, and of course, with it being arch-based you get the up-to-date packages. So, which means you get up-to-date wine packages, which would always be beneficial.

Download and Install Manjaro Linux

You can get Linux from their official website at manjaro.org on the downloads page. The best part of Linux is we can choose the desktop environment we need, if you are new to Linux desktops start with no more KDE, they are quite popular and useful as is the Xfce desktop is quite good and less resource-intensive. So basically with your call, in addition, we can get community builds of different other desktops as well.

For the installation process, select the desktop Linux and click on download, the download will be around 2 GB. Once that is done, we'll start the installation process with the ISO file downloaded. We now need to create a bootable device; there are many ways of doing it.

So the following steps should work fine for most of you:

1. Visit rufus. ie and download the executable program. Once the download is complete, open the application and load the download manager ISO image.
2. Linux's users can use etcher disk utility or terminal to do the same, creating a bootable device may take a while, this is the same as copying the content inside, the ISO image to the USB stick. Once this process is complete, we are ready to install Manjaro Linux.
3. Alongside the installation of our windows, Linux users can use a terminal to create a bootable device. Identify the USB device with the following command.

   $ sudo unmount/dev/sdX

4. Mount the device using the appropriate device name. Now using the dd command we can create a bootable USB.

   $ dd if=/path/to/manjaro.iso

5. Now reboot your PC to the bios menu or boot manager, pressing f2 or f12 should work on most systems. In your bios settings, go to the boot manager?boot sequence editor.

Some bios provide an option to rearrange the bootable devices, in this case, move up your bootable USB to the top of the list. Once the USB is loaded, we will be greeted by this menu. If you have a graphics card, choose the non-free version, else go with the default settings.

1. Once the Manjaro Linux boots up, we can see the Manjaro installer application launch the installer. Select your location and on the next page, we need to set up our keyboard layout. Select your layout and check if all your keys work as expected on the partitions page, we need to set up the disk for installing major.
2. We will use the manual partitioning option this applies if you have to dual boot or if you want to clean install, now create a new partition for installing Manjaro, this way we now have enough disk space to start the installation.
3. The first partition we need to create is for the base installation, they called this a root partition this will include all the applications system-related packages, etc. Leave at least 20 GB for this select file system.
4. The next partition to be created is the root partition, this partition will load the manager Linux and other installed OS on this machine. Leave at least 300 MB some new Linux systems recommend, 500 MB and this should be more than sufficient. It would be a good thing to have separate partitions for different system mount points.
5. Next, we need to set up a user for the system. Enter all the details and passwords. You can choose to enable auto-login and set the same password as your root password, if you are not familiar with a root user is like an administrator with elevated privileges with the partitions and user configurations ready.

Once the installation completes, reboot the system, this will bring up the Manjaro boot-up screen. You will select Manjaro Linux, go to the Manjaro Linux, open up a terminal and run sudo update-grub.

Conclusion

The article gives you information about Manjaro Linux, how and where it is used, and also shown the installation procedure to download Manjaro Linux into your PC.