Hi, after some time I would like to retry the ‘official’ minimal Cinnamon spin, but I noticed that the downloadable image dates from June 9th 2025, while the main images (like Gnome) are dated Febr 28th 2026. Could (or will) Cinnamon also be updated to a later/newer build?
Thank you in advance.
Hi @Oxidizing0342,
Being a rolling-release, Manjaro’s “version” numbers don’t really mean much.
So, if you install that version, a simple
sudo pacman -Syu
…afterwards will ensure it’s on the latest and greatest.
.pacnew files after the sync/update!I get that, but (in my opinion) having a more up to date base distro saves on the amount of updates needed to be downloaded and I think more importantly shows that the community images are still maintained instead of (me) wondering if they are. Just my 2 cents 
Thanks for the reminder on .pacnew files 
Whether they are actively being maintained or not doesn’t have anything to do with Manjaro.
An alternative might be:
You can equally well download the official XFCE ISO and install Cinnamon from there. Removing XFCE later if you don’t like it are just a few packages.
I think you have an incorrect idea what “community images” are in the present day. I will give you that at one time they were partially created by members of the Manjaro team, mostly forum moderators. But with the excellent tools that Manjaro provides to build images this has changed. Most are now spins created by community members. I have been creating SbK Spins of Manjaro for over 6 years. Mirdarthos linked to the latest Cinnamon release, and yes they are updated monthly to limit the number of updates needed.
I appreciate your work and all my credit goes to you!
But if among the 3 snapshots you made there was a non-customized - full Cinnamon-panel snapshot similar to the community release, I’m sure it would
produce more downloads.
I agree with @growler, I really enjoyed the bare/minimal/clean Cinnamon edition as a base, no offense as well to the other community versions with their added flavor.
Honestly, the dock releases, even the minimal dock has better downloads than the panel version. It uses Cairo Dock, which after a long time has released updated packages.
As for customized, the theming is customized. But honestly, the theming of the standard Manjaro “community edition” is not that great and hasnt been updated in forever. One of the advantages of SbK spins is there are tons of themes the user can choose in the SbK repo. All SbK themes except the earliest have a Cinnamon theme, even those used on other desktops.
Please tell me what differences, other than the theme, are there between the Manjaro minimal community edition and the SbK Cinnamon panel release?
just for you
Thank you very much!
After 9 months of waiting, this snapshot is a precious and beautiful gift.
very much appreciated!
You both understand that it is not an official image, right? So you waited 9 months for a spin. That its being distributed on Mediafire should be the first clue.
Its also 300mb larger than the download on the Manjaro website from a poster who has hidden their profile.
You’re right, but that makes it just as trustworthy as your own spin atm.
And I did a search on Robin0800 and landed on this manjaro-tools github page. That’s still not validation, but it does make me trust it just a bit more.
I do hope that the image on the ‘official’ spin download page will be updated at one point.
Right now I’m purely running it in a VM.
I only pointed out what you are downloading and installing after multiple posts requesting an official community edition. After not wanting a spin, you mark a spin as the solution.
That github manjaro-tools page has not had an update in 3 years, it appears to be an old fork. Something alyone can create. The manjaro-tools from Manjaro is hosted here. It is under active development with changes a few months ago and Philip Müller, a Manjaro developer controls that code base
As for trustworthiness, I think someone who has a 6.5 year project that has monthly releases on Sourceforge that have been used and tested by countless people is slightly more trustworthy than a one off created by someone with a hidden profile, zipped and hosted by Mediafire. Mediafire is a source of some malware downloads.
By the way you never answered the question I poised to you in this post. So please answer it.
You’ve raised solid points.
Thanks for pointing out the real manjaro-tools page.
I have stopped using & removed Robin0800’s custom iso.
What I gather from your spin is that it’s based on the full version of the manjaro community edition and while you do remove some bloat, it’s still not as lean as the minimal edition. And you add some things yourself, themes, docks, multiarch.
I just love the fact that there is a minimal community edition, a solid mini base for me to tinker with and to add only the things I like/want.
I guess for now I’ll wait until the (minimal) community edition gets updated (please do update it 
) or I’ll use the current one and install the updates.
I would also like to hear robin0800’s opinion on what was said.
The SbK Cinnamon minimal panel spin does have a different theme than the one distributed by Manjaro and uses a panel and not a dock. The last time I checked it is a smaller iso than Manjaro’s. I think it is leaner than the Manjaro Cinnamon minimal. Its a base install with few extra applications. Basically a browser, pdf reader, and utilities to work with compressed files.
That you dont know that suggests you never even tried it.
All that has been said is pointing out facts. People are not allowed to have alternate “facts”. Alternate facts are commonly called lies.
The minimum iso I made is all official
1.pamac install manjaro-tools-iso-git
2. git clone https://gitlab.manjaro.org/profiles-and-settings/iso-profiles.git ~/iso-profile
3. The only thing I added to the profile.config was extra=“false”
4. manjaro-tools was already in ~/.config, changed manjaro-tools to “stable” and “iso-profiles” to /home/robin0800/iso-profile
5. That is all. I used then sudo buildiso -p cinnamon
Thank you again for your work in making up for the shortfall!