Manjaro Linux took two bold moves
Manjaro Linux seems to have had a lot of big moves lately, and Jack Wallen, the award-winning author of TechRepublic and Linux.com, believes that Manjaro Linux has taken two important steps that should be appreciated by the Linux community. First, based on Manjaro, a company founded by Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG, analogous to Ubuntu, Jack believes that one of the reasons for Ubuntu’s success is the support behind the company Canonical.
Canonical can successfully guide the business and enable the distribution to continue to operate stably. The most important point may be to provide research and development and promotion funds. Manjaro, too, has a commercial company to operate, so at least the operating system continues to be more stable, and Arch-based Manjaro has been working to make Arch Linux user-friendly, along with the new company.
Another important move by Manjaro 18.1 released a while ago, where office suite tools are available for you to choose. Libre Office is pre-installed in the system, but users can choose FreeOffice during the installation process, or still use LibreOffice, or even skip installing any Office suite. But FreeOffice is not open source software, and Jack thinks this is the daring of Manjaro.
Although some people think that open source projects should be used on Linux, and developers need to be able to view the source code of FreeOffice and can debug the code themselves when problems occur. “But the idea of having yet another option on Linux, especially one that makes the seamless collaboration with MS Office more than a reality, should be seen as a massive win for the Linux desktop.”
Jack shared his hard work on document collaboration on Linux, and later went to the point of needing to ask for online tools like Google Docs. So, Manjaro introduced a non-open source FreeOffice, but also on Linux. “And that’s what is so important about the Manjaro move. They get it. The developers of this desktop distribution understand that what truly matters is having the right tools available to get the job done, be they open or closed source.”
