Installing Manjaro with XFCE on Macbook Air 11" 2011

Manjaro can run on low spec hardware - but as the ISO is quite large - even for the minimal edition - you will need to do a commandline install.

You can either use this guide

Or you may try the manjaro-architect package on the live iso.

When booted to the live iso - open a terminal and run

sudo pacman-mirrors --continent 
sudo pacman -Syy manjaro-architect
sudo setup

NOTE on using -Sy: Generally you should use -Syu when installing - but as this is the live ISO it makes no sense to run a full system sync - we only need the package databases.

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