Antergos is a modern, elegant and powerful operating system based on Arch Linux. It started life under the name of Cinnarch, combining the Cinnamon desktop with the Arch Linux distribution, but the project has moved on from its original goals and now offers a choice of several desktops, including GNOME 3 (default), Cinnamon, Razor-qt and Xfce. Antergos also provides its own graphical installation program.
This video tutorial shows Antergos 17.3 installation on VMware Workstation/Player step by step. This tutorial is also helpful to install Antergos Linux on physical computer or laptop hardware. We also install VMware Tools (Open VM Tools) on Antergos for better performance and usability features such as Fit Guest Now, Drag-Drop File and Clipboard Sharing.
Antergos 17.3 Linux Installation Steps:
Download Antergos 17.3 ISO
Create Virtual Machine on VMware Workstation/Player
Start Antergos Installation
Install VMware Tools (Open VM Tools)
Test VMware Tools Features: Fit Guest Now, Drag-Drop File and Clipboard Sharing
Installing Antergos 17.3 on VMware Workstation
What is Antergos Linux?
Antergos is a modern, elegant and powerful operating system based on Arch Linux. It started life under the name of Cinnarch, combining the Cinnamon desktop with the Arch Linux distribution, but the project has moved on from its original goals and now offers a choice of several desktops, including GNOME 3 (default), Cinnamon, Razor-qt and Xfce. Antergos also provides its own graphical installation program. Antergos is a rolling release distribution. Your entire system, from the base OS components to the applications that you install, will receive updates as they are released upstream. Antergos is available in many languages including Spanish, Galician, Catalan, English, German, and more. Antergos Website: https://antergos.com/
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This post is about out of topic of this blog. Since Manjaro is based on Arch Linux, I think its also useful if I also write some tutorial about Antergos which also based on Arch Linux as well. Antergos is another Arch based Linux distribution which is also stable and designed for Desktop computing. Here are some Antergos 2016 screenshots with MATE Desktop Environment.
Antergos 2016 Screenshot - The Desktop
Like any other Arch based Linux, Antergos can be customise very easy. But I like my clean Desktop.
File Manager
Not many applications included in the Antergos 2016 ISO. But dont worry, we can easily add or remove programs on Antergos.
