What is best practise getting started with Manjaro?

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I distro hop every so often manjaro being one of those distros
Manjaro is arch ik that it runs great on my system Does anyone have a link to get old Manjaro versions eg 2020 versions

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Hopefully not.

One of the most ill advised things to try would be to install a rolling release distribution from an ISO that’s five years out of date – you would be guaranteed to encounter many issues as Manjaro must always be kept updated.

An ISO that’s perhaps two months old (at most) might allow some greater survivability; however, the current ISO is always recommended.

I dare say, if you had to ask a question like that, you will be better served by using a so-called point release distribution. You’ll likely be doing yourself a favour.

Hippity-hop-along now. :kangaroo:

Regards.

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You have that the other way around. chromium is the original code base, and it’s open-source. chrome is a proprietary browser built upon the chromium code base.

In a way it is similar to the difference between FreeBSD and macOS. FreeBSD is a Free & Open-Source UNIX operating system, just like GNU/Linux. Apple took FreeBSD, modified it into something known as Darwin, and then fitted proprietary extensions to it — the BSD license allows for that.

Calling chromium an open-source chrome is just as backwards as calling FreeBSD an open-source macOS.

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I like arch and Manjaro they are perfect and so ez to setup