It’s not in the Manjaro repositories, but it’s available from the AUR for those who need it.
However, chromium — the free version, which chrome is based upon — is in the extra repository. I’m using that one myself. 
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If you insist on doing it that way I’d suggest you create a new User account specifically for Sway.
The easiest route is usually to use the Manjaro Installer with your preferred DE; this reduces possible complication as a result of having multiple disparate DE’s and/or DM’s installed.
Regards.
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Sway is neither a DE (Desktop Environment) nor a DM (Display Manager).
No one should be using multiple DMs.
Sway is a WM (Window Manager) - which among other things, are known to generally not make a mess when combined with other environments, as compared to mixing two big DEs like Plasma and Gnome - though thats not impossible either.
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Hello
i am New to Manjaro Linux i choose gnome as my DE I Install Manjaro Because I Was Switching to Linux For the First Time and i am New to the Forum and I really Like Manjaro i Thought at First Linux Was Bad But now i Love it so much Before i Had a VM to Test it Before installing On My Real PC and Thank you
-Ethan
Hi @ethan_123, and welcome!
As a new user, please take the time to familiarise yourself with the following:
- [HowTo] Provide System Information,
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- [HowTo] Request support, and
- [HowTo] Post command output and file content as formatted text.
Please also note and heed: Forum Rules - Manjaro
Please also note your sentence structure, punctuation and don’t use txt spk. This is an internet forum and not an SMS message.
Hope you manage!
Tip:
To provide terminal output, copy the text you wish to share, and paste it here, surrounded by three (3) backticks, a.k.a grave accents. Like this:
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Or three (3) tilde signs, like this:
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This will just cause it to be rendered like this:
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Instead of like this:
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Alternatively, paste the text you wish to format as terminal output, select all pasted text, and click the </> button on the taskbar. This will indent the whole pasted section with one TAB, causing it to render the same way as described above.
Thereby improving legibility and making it much easier for those trying to be of assistance.
Additionally
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This will just cause the terminal output to be in English, making it easier to understand and debug.
Please edit your post accordingly.
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Hi, and cheers to everybody,
I’m Joerg, born '71,
started my IT living on a Z80 CPU, Assembler for sure to understand and being able to modify the processor (and games 
), C, C++ aso.
Linux I started with SUSE when it was very new, moved to OS/2 and later DOS/WIN in the mid 90th, as me as a sys-admin was bringing TCP/IP and IPX/SPX (is here anybody still know what this is ?? ) onto “modern machines” to replace typewriters in the offices … oh yes, this makes me feel I am very old indeed …
Some knowledge on Debian/Ubuntu, long time on GNOME (yes, I like it).
Installed ARCH on my daily driver notebook a couple of month ago, as soon as it was up and running incl. X11, I deleted it to move over to Manjaro.
Why? I - in a kind - understand Hardware and Software, but I am a user (yes, who wants to be able to customize and put my fingers on every nut and bolt) and I really like the help that a user gets from the Manjaro customization.
Living in Germany, in the wider Munich area, divorced, 2 childs (ladies aged 12 and 14), being a seeker and a walker between worlds
Thanks for listening, great to be here!
Cheers
Jörg
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Hi @Zauberer-Merlin and welcome! I was also born in the same year, so I know what you mean …
Regarding Gnome, it’s horses for courses. Some people like it, some prefer other desktop environments like me, with KDE.
Relating to you switching OSes, I didn’t “change my mind” as quickly as you did, but some years ago, I’d literally only recently finished customizing my Mint 17.3 KDE installation to the tee. Then I decided on-the-fly I wanted more “adventure” (and I knew Mint were going to drop Plasma) and switched to Manjaro, then promptly lost the Mint HDD. I must find it, to retrieve the old printer drivers.
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HI Brian,
yeah - it’s always good to hear that someone is not alone
Gnome, Plasma, …
I mean, some like a BMW, others would always go for a Mercedes, others like … whatever …
Isn’t this one of the cool stuff on Linux, this possibilities you have?
And there is nothing right or wrong … it’s just like Frank Sinatra sings “this is my way” …
We OS guys, IT guys, some of us just like to play around with other OSses … at least I do.
But ■■■■ - this is so time consuming … and so cool that I not seldom get up in the night to change this or that here or there - or to work on the partition table and could kill myself in the morning as I had to less coffee while I again did this mistake …
How much time I had if there would be only one OS available
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Yes, I remember Novell Netware, but probably only so because I’m even older than you; I rolled off the production line around the same time as the Gibson Firebird — of which I own one. 
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I was a Netware Admin for a while.
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Hell,got you guys beat, in 1963 got my first computer job working as an assembler for Remington Rand Univac in Roseville, MN.
In 67 went to work at Burroughs as a Field Engineer.
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@vikk Welcome to the Community! I guess you beat me about a decade too (first got into computers in 1982 or thereabouts).
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Hello everyone! I’ve just ‘migrated’ from Debian 12 to Arch Manjaro, have to say I’m liking it very much so far.
I’m fairly inexperienced with Linux, although I’ve been tinkering with it as a second OS and on VPS systems for a while.
My main area of interest is pro audio work. I’m running native Reaper with Wine-Staging and Yabridge VST ‘bridge’. Pipewire is my audio server/protocol.
Have to say, with the updated packages, Arch/manjaro is a big step up for real-time audio processing stability in comparison to my previous Debian 12 OS.
My main concern at the moment is ensuring that I have my system set up correctly for my hardware. I have a late 2019 Razer laptop with intel i7 1065G7 and Nvidia GTX 1650. So far, I just have the vanilla drivers from the Kernel.
No overt problems, but I do have strange hangs on shutdown sometimes…
Do doubt I’ll be posting some specific questions here in the fullness of time.
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There’s no such thing.
Both are independand, with Manjaro inheriting some of the packages from Arch. See
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Thanks for pointing that out – an important distinction of which I was unaware!
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Hello all! My name is Pat, ~40/m from the US. I grew up with the privilege of having access to a home computer and became a technology enthusiast and gamer. I’ve dabbled quite a bit in many different areas of technology. I’ve worked in the public sector as IT support, and eventually moved up to IS support and a bit of management. Automating info system data transfers, occasional scripting, etc. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the public sector, little of what I work with is cutting edge or necessarily applicable to other sectors. Anyway, I’m not an expert even in my little niche. I’m just someone familiar enough with a wide array of technology to appear like a “wizard” to most other people.
I’ve always loved the idea of FOSS and at least half a dozen times I’ve tried to dive into using a Linux-based OS. Sadly, I never managed to stay for long. I played around with Slackware in high school, tried RH and Debian a bit later, messed around with Ubuntu when it started getting popular. The last few years I’ve been pushing myself to really dig in but I always seemed to have issues that just exceeded the depth of my patience after a workday, at least when it came to gaming and everyday use. I have a little home lab that hosts a number of services locally via Proxmox and most of my recent Linux experience has been from that.
This month, I built a new gaming PC and got a laptop with the explicit purpose of running Linux on both and pushing through the problems. I still have a drive with Windows 10 as a fallback but so far so good.
While I tend not to be a forum person, search engines have been failing me for the last 5 or so years, especially the last two. Either I’m getting deep enough that finding specific answers is harder, I’m out of my depth enough that I don’t use the proper terminology, the search space has been obliterated by AI slop and SEO, or a bit of everything. The end result is I feel like 1/3 of my technology problems are somehow unique to me. Searching for my literal error messages, even trimmed to exclude variables that might be limiting, gets me little or no results. So here I am. Thanks for having me!
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My first programming job was as a Basic 2+ programmer, on a DEC PDP 11/70, our Senior Systems Guy used to tell us a story about when he was programming in Assember, he came across a line of code someone had added the comment “RIP LVB” the line in the code was 1827.
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Never was a programmer, strictly a hardware guy, scopes, analyzers and wrenches. Used to watch those programmer guys wandering the hallways talking to themselves. I did write programs in machine language. Boot loaders, the kind of thing that gets you to the point where you can run a diagnostic program.
The best jobs I had were running a one man site, if a tool was missing I knew who to blame, ME.
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I share your pain.
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