The latest and greatest Cinnamon ISO is not updated on manjaro.org. I can verify that the minimal install ISO I downloaded from New Cinnamon ISO? - #10 by Wollie works flawlessly. It’s the best Cinnamon implementation I have encountered outside of Mint itself since my days distro hopping. Manjaro is the only distro I use now. All of your hard work is greatly appreciated.
Hi @teabian,
The Cinamon edition/spin/whatever you want to call it, is not an official release, but a release by the community.
As such, there is no official support for it, so the maintainer might or might not see this.
This is the final test version of Cinnamon.
During a brief trial in live mode, I didn’t encounter any issues.
The latest ISOs including Community editions are linked at the bottom of the latest Announcements > Stable Updates thread.
The Cinnamon edition is excellent quality. You should consider adding it as an official release.
Nice idea, but that would likely depend on, amongst other factors:
- Whether there are enough Manjaro Cinnamon users to justify it … and
- Having sufficient time and resources to officially maintain another DE.
I ask this respectfully!
In practical terms, what does “automated release” mean?
If a new test version of Cinnamon can be created from one day to the next (e.g., 20261031 → 20261101), why would it be difficult to automatically generate a new one every month, or every 2–3 months?
In my experience, these versions launch, install, and function well.
That’s because the maintainer put the time and effort in to configure quite a lot before it gets installed.
An “automated release”, according to my understanding will only stay automated as long as there is no breaking changes. And with a rolling release, those can be frequent. The moment a breaking change is encountered, manual intervention becomes necessary and it’s no longer automated. Well, that’s my understanding anyway.
Fundamentally, all build operations are ideally scripted according to known best practice methods. If nothing significant has changed from one build to the next, the resulting ISO will likely be in a workable state.
Unfortunately, this cannot be guaranteed – new packages are constantly included as they are provided by Arch, along with Manjaro’s own packages, and a breakage in any of these can make or break any particular ISO.
Automatically generated ISOs are typically classed under Development so that the maintainer can actively monitor for breakages, and apply changes to the build as may be necessary – the current “best of” these ISOs is often chosen as the next publicly released snapshot.
That’s how the process works in many cases; you can likely find examples of this method on GitHub – many versions are listed, but only one is finally listed as “green”.
Plus, I believe the Manjaro Cinnamon spin currently has no maintainer; if I’m not mistaken, @Yochanan is handling it as he finds time, but, time is a luxury – there are only “so many” hours in a day – and the official Manjaro Editions (GNOME, KDE and XFCE) must take precedence.
Thank you for the answers!