Manjaro is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Arch. It is a rolling release distro which includes a user-friendly installer, tested updates that try very hard to not break your system and a community of friendly users for support. Official releases include Xfce, KDE, Gnome, and the minimal CLI-Installer Architect. Community releases include Awesome, bspwm, Budgie, Cinnamon, Deepin, i3, LXDE, LXQT, Mate, OpenBox and builds for ARM devices like Raspberry Pi, Odroid etc.
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I logged in today and was greeted with this advertisement in my notifications.
Seriously Manjaro team,
I've been happily using your OS for the past few years,
but if you jump on the enshittification train and start with pumping out advertisements in my OS,
then it won't be long before I hop to Arch...
That's just their news notification via matray, it automatically grabs anything from the Manjaro forum RSS feed or their twitter account. I don't think it's unreasonable for this to have been on twitter or their forum, and don't count it as an ad in your desktop. If you don't like it popping up (and don't care about not getting other updates in your tray from their RSS or twitter) just delete matray
I care for matray to give me news on OS updates,
not to give me advertisements.
I don't use majaro, but is there a store? Or a circle with a number that tells you how many updates are available? Or if you are considering switching to arch, do it the arch way: sudo pacman -Syu
I've heard they've sunk low but not that low 😮