The launch of the new update of "Manjaro Linux 21.3", in which several updates of the different components have been made, of which the updates of the environments stand out, as well as the installer, among other things.
For those of you who are new to Manjaro, you should know that it is built on top of Arch Linux and aimed at novice users. The distribution stands out for having a simplified and easy-to-use installation process, support for automatically detecting hardware and installing the necessary drivers for its operation.
Main new features of Manjaro Linux 21.3
This new update that is presented of the distribution, it is highlighted that the installer has been updated to the latest version of the Calamare frameworks, with which the support for LUKS encrypted partitions and that it has also been extended in the installation module to edit disk partitions. The initial user creation module implements a list of prohibited hostnames and account names that overlap with the names used during the installation process.
For the heart part of the system, as in the previous version, the distribution continues to use the Linux 5.15 kernel branch.
In the GNOME-based edition, this updated to GNOME version 42 and in which global settings for the dark interface style are implemented. For apps, light or dark layout can be enabled separately, regardless of the overall style of the system.
many applications have been migrated to GTK 4 and libadwaita library, which offers out-of-the-box widgets and objects to build applications that are GNOME HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) compliant and can adapt responsively to any screen size. Optimized rendering of apps running in full screen mode.
For the KDE-based edition, this has been updated to KDE Plasma 5.24 and in which the editing mode allows you to freely move the panel with the mouse by holding down any area, not just a special button.
It is also highlighted that a new overview effect has been implemented (Overview) to see the content of the virtual desktops. The program search interface (KRunner) offers built-in help for available search operations, which is displayed when you click the question mark or enter the command "?".
As for the main edition, it continues to be delivered with the user environment Xfce 4.16, but the window manager got a lot of updates and improvements again in the compositing area and GLX.
It is highlighted that added support for fractional scaling to the display dialog, as well as highlighting a display's preferred mode with an asterisk, and adding aspect ratios next to resolutions.
Configuration manager has improved search and filter capabilities and Thunar received a lot of fixes and some notable features, including pausing for copy/move operations, queued file transfer support, remembering view settings per directory, and transparency support in Gtk themes.
Finally, if you want to know more about this release, you can consult the details In the following link.
Download Manjaro Linux 21.3
Finally for those who are interested in being able to obtain the new version of Manjaro, they can get the system image by going to the official website of the distribution and in its download section you will be able to find the links to download some of the flavors of your liking or the community versions that add other desktop environments or window managers.
Manjaro comes in live builds with KDE (3,5 GB), GNOME (3,3 GB), and Xfce (3,2 GB) desktop environments. With community input, builds with Budgie, Cinnamon, Deepin, LXDE, LXQt, MATE and i3 are further developed.
The system image can be recorded by:
- Windows: They can use Etcher, Universal USB Installer or LinuxLive USB Creator, both are easy to use.
- Linux: The recommended option is to use the dd command, with which we define in which path we have the Manjaro image and also in which mount point we have our usb:
dd bs=4M if=/ruta/a/manjaro.iso of=/dev/sdx && sync