I installed the i3 flavor of Manjaro:
It’s not catering to expert users just by having a spin that’s basically absolutely unusable and even arch would be easy to setup against it.
Hi @el.presidente,
The i3 spin is just that:
a Spin of the official Manjaro by some or someones from the community and not official in any way. Therefore, things might be out-of-date or something else if the member(s) responsible for it has failed to keep it updated for whichever reason.
There is no official ISO for this WM. It is a community SPIN and as such no official Support.
Complain to the maintainer of this spin.
//EDIT: last commit on the profile here [i3] replace palemoon with firefox (aa4ce48b) · Commits · Profiles & Settings / iso-profiles · GitLab
Maybe the ISO could be manually rebuilt @Yochanan or maybe the ISO used is very old. //EDIT2: yeah ISOs for the community editions are more than a year old so that’s why. Rebuild the ISO yourself from the profile, or wait that new ISOs are built for the community editions.
Welcome to the forum!
The above suggests that your download was corrupted.
This is usually the result of an unmaintained system and/or having packages from unofficial repositories mixed in with those of the official repo. It is either way normally fixable by — at your own risk! — using --overwrite="name-of-directory/*". See the man page. 
man pacman
THX for the response.
That’s OK with me but it’s on the official Manjaro website.
If the checksum isn’t same like the ISO it’s kinda dangerous.
And how should I contact the maintainers.
The corruption isn’t in the ISO offered through Manjaro’s website. It happens while you are downloading it — usually because of networking problems.
That’s why the checksum and the signature are there; it is to make sure that your download wasn’t corrupted.
ISOs for community editions are more than a year old. They need to be rebuilt.
And who’s gona do that?
I was just using normal KDE Manjaro I don’t know much about the community and how to participate in such matters.
You can do it yourself from the ISO Profile, I used to do custom ISO for my needs some years ago (following these instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2t5Iat37CI).
You can wait someone at Manjaro Team does it and update the links on Website.
Community Editions are not Official Editions — they are created by a single person in their spare time.
Perhaps there will be a new i3 Community Edition release when 26.1 officially gets released.
Indeed but the ISO profiles are on the Manjaro GitLab for a reason I guess, probably to build them and publish them on the official website (as I see they are all on the same old 25.0.3 version from the download links, I would assume they are built by CI on GitHub or another way you produce the official ISOs //EDIT: I actually hope so, Manjaro wouldn’t put random ISO people on the internet provide to them to publish on their website).
Indeed dead community editions has to be cleaned from the site. I guess a good time for this will be the splitting of the site and its restructuring after the restructuring of manjaro itself.
Until then, i would advise not to use things where it is not clear if there is development at all and who supports them. Judging by the forum, actively maintained spins are mabox, SbK and DeLinuxCo. Ironically none of them on the official page. Everything else is a pure experiment.
Spins are a different thing. 
Edit: Another difference is that the base system of Community Editions is the same as in the Official Editions, while Spins can have a different configuration, as well as additional software packages, or conversely, they can have some of the components from the Official and Community Editions removed or replaced by alternatives — e.g. XLibre instead of X.Org.
OMG sorry. I always thought community edition equals spin 
Thanks for the clarification.
Me too. Thx
So in the End we all have to hope that the new Manjaro project will kindle the fire again and the community support will come back.
Mod edit: Consecutive posts merged.
Things may appear a little chaotic right now, but we are actively working behind the scenes at revamping the distribution, and some aspects need being addressed first before other aspects in order to guarantee success.
We are working on it, but doing things The Right Way™ takes time. Rushing it would only cause more chaos, and lower quality standards. We don’t want that; we want Manjaro’s quality to go up, not down.
How did you generate the checksum?
The wiki only mentions sha1sum and sha256sum, but the checksum for the i3 edition is from sha512sum.
$ sha512sum manjaro-i3-25.0.3-250609-linux612.iso
44dabf2799b34d3180b0d2f327ff347b0cdbd7634be9c4fded9154ea53a6dcf8e900ee59367e1b47b6e3387fd1d19e977ba9dd4c4a930c889f243dd1cad4094a manjaro-i3-25.0.3-250609-linux612.iso
I was able to get the Manjaro Community Editions CI running again and out came ISOs. Please test them out and provide feedback. If they turned out alright, the links can be added to the Manjaro 26.1 Bian-May - Preview released post.
Manjaro i3 hasn’t had an active maintainer for a number of years. I’ve only been able to do minimal maintenance–which mostly included removing packages no longer in the repos and their related configuration.
Manjaro Cinnamon is currently maintained by me and I test it occasionally.
Bian-May 26.1.0-pre Community Editions (2026-06-10)
https://download.manjaro.org/i3/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-260610-linux618.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/i3/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-260610-linux618.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/i3/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-260610-linux618.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/i3/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-260610-linux618.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/i3/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-260610-linux618.iso.sha512
https://download.manjaro.org/i3/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-260610-linux618.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/i3/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-260610-linux618.iso.pkgs
https://download.manjaro.org/i3/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-minimal-260610-linux618.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/i3/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-minimal-260610-linux618.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/i3/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-minimal-260610-linux618.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/i3/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-minimal-260610-linux618.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/i3/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-minimal-260610-linux618.iso.sha512
https://download.manjaro.org/i3/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-minimal-260610-linux618.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/i3/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-minimal-260610-linux618.iso.pkgs
https://download.manjaro.org/cinnamon/26.1-pre1/manjaro-cinnamon-26.1-pre1-260610-linux618.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/cinnamon/26.1-pre1/manjaro-cinnamon-26.1-pre1-260610-linux618.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/cinnamon/26.1-pre1/manjaro-cinnamon-26.1-pre1-260610-linux618.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/cinnamon/26.1-pre1/manjaro-cinnamon-26.1-pre1-260610-linux618.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/cinnamon/26.1-pre1/manjaro-cinnamon-26.1-pre1-260610-linux618.iso.sha512
https://download.manjaro.org/cinnamon/26.1-pre1/manjaro-cinnamon-26.1-pre1-260610-linux618.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/cinnamon/26.1-pre1/manjaro-cinnamon-26.1-pre1-260610-linux618.iso.pkgs
https://download.manjaro.org/cinnamon/26.1-pre1/manjaro-cinnamon-26.1-pre1-minimal-260610-linux618.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/cinnamon/26.1-pre1/manjaro-cinnamon-26.1-pre1-minimal-260610-linux618.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/cinnamon/26.1-pre1/manjaro-cinnamon-26.1-pre1-minimal-260610-linux618.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/cinnamon/26.1-pre1/manjaro-cinnamon-26.1-pre1-minimal-260610-linux618.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/cinnamon/26.1-pre1/manjaro-cinnamon-26.1-pre1-minimal-260610-linux618.sha512
https://download.manjaro.org/cinnamon/26.1-pre1/manjaro-i3-26.1-pre1-minimal-260610-linux618.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/cinnamon/26.1-pre1/manjaro-cinnamon-26.1-pre1-minimal-260610-linux618.iso.pkgs
EDIT: On the Cinnamon live ISO, if you update manjaro-cinnamon-settings to 20260611-1, the accent color in Calamares (the installer) will be Manjaro Maia instead of blue:
sudo pacman -Sy manjaro-cinnamon-settings
In the beginning, let’s say that these communities could also be ISOs created by a member of the Manjaro community, but they had to be approved by us to be granted this status; in a sense, they had to meet certain requirements. This was after the Manjaro Tools were created, and specifically the buildiso tool.
I’m impressed. I didn’t know my Italian was that good. 