Introduction to Manjaro and Linux

Why Linux, and why Manjaro? This book was written to answer this question perfectly with all the reasons why. Manjaro is one of the best Linux distributions due to its simplicity, speed, security, great amount of available software (SW), and user-friendliness. Thanks to this, it is one of the best distributions to start learning Linux. In addition, the book covers many topics, generic for most Linux distributions.

In this chapter, we will first look at the book’s structure. We will then start our journey with a short introduction to Arch and Manjaro Linux characteristics. We will understand why Linux-based operating systems (OSs) run on more devices than any other existing OS, looking into alternative OSs. The last part of the chapter reviews Linux’s history and key points of its main variants.

If you want, you can skip this chapter. The chapters’ topics are as much as possible separated, and most can be read independently...