{"id":206523,"date":"2026-01-26T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/i-found-a-new-linux-distro-thats-a-productivity-powerhouse-right-out-of-the-box\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T04:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:25:08","slug":"i-found-a-new-linux-distro-thats-a-productivity-powerhouse-right-out-of-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/i-found-a-new-linux-distro-thats-a-productivity-powerhouse-right-out-of-the-box\/","title":{"rendered":"I found a new Linux distro that&#8217;s a productivity powerhouse right out of the box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/manjaro-elegance-linux-distribution-hands-on\/\">I found a new Linux distro that&#8217;s a productivity powerhouse right out of the box<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/manjaro-elegance-linux-distribution-hands-on\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/manjaro-elegance-linux-distribution-hands-on\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-26 04:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Screenshot by Jack Wallen\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET:\u00a0<span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span>\u00a0on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Elegance is a Linux distribution based on Manjaro.<\/li>\n<li>This rolling-release distro comes with tons of pre-installed apps.<\/li>\n<li>You can download and install Elegance for free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Manjaro is a sweet Arch-based Linux distribution, and it has the fans to prove it. Manjaro is designed to take Arch to new heights of user-friendliness, and it succeeds quite well.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are always those who believe everything can be improved, which is why a small team of developers decided to fork Manjaro and create Elegance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: The 6 Linux distros I expect to rule 2026 &#8211; and why<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The beauty of Elegance isn&#8217;t in the UI, although the developers have made Cinnamon look pretty good. What&#8217;s really appealing (at least to me) is the collection of software that comes preinstalled.<\/p>\n<p>Before I get into that, it&#8217;s important to know that Manjaro provides the core of the OS, the Cinnamon desktop, the package manager, and the basic software. Beyond that, everything is Elegance.<\/p>\n<p>And it really is a pretty elegant distro. Usually, when I think of Cinnamon, I think of Linux Mint. Now, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with Linux Mint. In fact, my esteemed colleague who covers Linux and open source, Steven Vaughan-Nicols, is a huge fan of Linux Mint.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I&#8217;ve always found the basic Cinnamon layout to be a bit, shall I say, boring? Yes, I shall. It&#8217;s boring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0Linux will be unstoppable in 2026 &#8211; but one open-source legend may not survive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elegance takes Cinnamon and gives it a makeover that elevates it to a more modern state, and I&#8217;m all for it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, out of the box, you get the dark theme (why is dark theme so often the default?), but that can be easily changed.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"The Elegance desktop.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"803.4890965732087\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>The lighter side of Elegance.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Screenshot by Jack Wallen\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever used Cinnamon for any length of time, you understand that it&#8217;s not exactly the most flexible desktop environment available to Linux.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>10 Linux apps I install&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/manjaro-elegance-linux-distribution-hands-on\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a new Linux distro that&#8217;s a productivity powerhouse right out of the box&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/2f844d9e550b1e8684637fd9c2729790e303c69c\/2026\/01\/21\/3bac476e-e6fe-41e6-afc0-fcc5061c1579\/why-ai-runs-on-linux2.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,110,133],"class_list":["post-206523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint","tag-manjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206525,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206523\/revisions\/206525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}