14 DAY TRIAL // Antergos is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux that follows the same rolling release model. Its developers have just released a new version of the Cnchi installer, which has made some great progress.
Arch Linux is not known for the ease with which it can be installed by regular users. If anything, it is the exact opposite. Antergos wants to provide a simple and straightforward user experience that takes advantage of the Arch Linux backbone. It's also quite possible that some of you will remember that Antergos used to be called Cinnarch, but its makers changed the name a few years ago.
The distribution also employs the use of Cnchi, which is a graphical installer. To be fair, it's not the only one of its kind, and there are plenty of other distros out there that have similar tools, but some developers do take the time to improve what they have. Cnchi 0.10.1 is a huge step forward for the distribution and it is just showing how many features are missing for other distros.
Antergos has an awesome installer
"We are pleased to announce the release of Cnchi v0.10 as the new stable version of our installer. As always, we put great effort into squashing bugs and improving code quality. One other area of focus during this development cycle was making Cnchi more reliable. To that end, Cnchi’s download module received what basically amounts to a total rewrite," wrote the devs.
Cinnarch only used the Cinnamon desktop environment, but after the renaming, the number of available desktop environments has increased, and users now have access to Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE 4, MATE, Openbox, and Xfce. A lot of work has been put into the installer in order to detect errors in package before they are downloading, but that has been fixed right now.
A new and refreshed image of Antergos has just been made available, and you can download it from Softpedia right now.