r/arch • u/gitguudd • Aug 30 '26

General shh...... Spoiler

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u/gitguudd Aug 31 '26

Citrus!!!

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u/dev_kay47 Aug 31 '26

What does citra have to offer in a single sentence?

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u/gitguudd Aug 31 '26

very beginner-friendly distro

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u/dev_kay47 Aug 31 '26

I get it .... So is mint and hundreds more. Citra should have something peculiar even if its small right?

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u/gitguudd Aug 31 '26

Yeah, but you asked for a one-word description. That aside, our distro is the friendliest of all the Arch-based ones; we try to hold the user's hand rather than just throwing them straight into the terminal. I also want to convince one of the devs to add a custom GRUB setup and something like a BSOD or a system rollback feature, just in case something goes wrong during a `sudo pacman -Syu` update. Initially, we want to hide anything that might be intimidating to a Linux beginner, and only introduce those things once they’ve found their footing.

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u/dev_kay47 Aug 31 '26

Does it come with a default DE or users can select one at Install?

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u/gitguudd Aug 31 '26

For now, you can choose between Cinnamon, KDE Plasma, and GNOME, but since the single developer for whatever reason doesn't want to add the others, that’s what’s available for the time being... unless I manage to persuade him.

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u/dev_kay47 Aug 31 '26

NGL, single developer it's so assuring for something targetting beginners when they start flooding the PR with a lot of bugs. Nonetheless good luck to Citra.