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Apricity OS targets those who use cloud services and spend their digital life on the Internet.
Apricity OS [1] enters the fray as a Linux distribution that is far different from its competitors. It is based on Arch Linux, a distribution commonly seen as an operating system for professionals and less suitable for beginners, and it borrows from the Arch offshoot Antergos, the Cnchi graphical installer, which visually and functionally resembles the Ubuntu installation tool.
The Apricity Gnome desktop somewhat resembles a Chrome OS installation [2]. The developers augmented the GUI with a toolbar at the bottom center of the screen and gave it a modern-looking theme. The Ice cloud and web application management tool, adopted from Peppermint OS [3], lets users access web pages with a single mouse click from a menu, just like locally installed applications. This capability is especially useful for online applications like web mailers or commonly used social networking services like Facebook and Twitter.
Start Up
Apricity OS comes as 64-bit-only operating system and thus cannot be used on some older computers. Booted from a DVD or a USB flash drive, the 1.8GB ISO image comes up with a visually restrained GRUB screen that fires up a Live system. In the automatically launched Gnome interface, you can then call Cnchi for an easy approach to installing the operating system on a hard disk or SSD (Figure 1).
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