Antergos
Rolling release distribution combining the Cinnamon desktop with the Arch Linux.
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What is Antergos?
Antergos, as its father,
Arch Linux , is a rolling release distro. It started life under the name of Cinnarch, combining the Cinnamon desktop with the Arch Linux distribution, but the project has moved on from its original goals and now offers a choice of several desktops, including
GNOME 3 (default),
Cinnamon,
Razor-qt and
Xfce. Antergos also provides its own graphical installation program.





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Project has been ceased. See https://antergos.com/blog/antergos-linux-project-ends/
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JohnFastman Both Antergos and Manjaro are rolling distros based on Arch. Manjaro enjoys wider support and a more polished out-of-the-box experience. Elementary OS is suitable particularly for Linux newcomers. Contrary to what most people expect, I would recommend Manjaro for beginners too, but Antergos less.
Auto-installer like Manjaro or Ubuntu, many choises of desktop environments
JohnFastman If you want Arch without the laborious installation procedure, Antergos its for you. It's based on Arch, has an excellent installer that lets you choose desktops and apps to install, doesn't come with any bloat, and supports the AUR (Arch User Repository). Even more user-friendly is Manjaro, which is better sorter out-of-the-box for most users, is also Arch based but comes with one installer per desktop and pre-installs much more guff.
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Antergos was added to AlternativeTo by impossible on Nov 13, 2013 and this page was last updated May 11, 2021. Antergos is sometimes referred to as Cinnarch.
Recent user activities on Antergos
- B13 thinks EndeavourOS is an alternative to Antergosabout 1 month ago
- POX added Antergos as alternative(s) to Rolling Rhino Remixabout 2 months ago
- IpjoyzRb thinks Manjaro Linux is an alternative to Antergos3 months ago
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Should you choose Manjaro or Antergos?
Manjaro and Antergos are both superb Arch-based distros.* (I have spent about 6 months with each.) If you know you want to choose one of them, but don't know which to go for, here are some points that might help you along. But it really comes down to tiny details, so if you flip a coin, you won't lose out much. For example, you can in 99.9% of occassions use advice from the Manjaro forum for solving Antergos problems and vice-versa. Note also that, ultimately, Manjaro and Antergos have the same guts and that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, you could overcome any particular perceived shortcoming of one to make it more like the other.
Go for Manjaro if...
Go for Antergos if...
Last edited: 2017-06-25
[Edited by JohnFastman, June 25]
It's essentially Arch, with a good auto installer, and its own additional repository to compliment the Arch repositories. It most notably contains AUR helpers. This is useful when you consider that no AUR helpers are in the official Arch repositories. Other than those features and its own themes and branding, Antergos is identical to Arch Linux.