First Look at Antergos NeXT

First Look at Antergos NeXT: A Modern Revival of Antergos Linux with KDE Plasma

Written By
MN
Marcus Nestor
Jul 20, 2026

In May 2019, the Antergos Linux development team announced the discontinuation of the project, citing a lack of time to maintain it, despite being very popular at that time, as it made Arch Linux a lot more accessible to the masses through an easy-to-use graphical installer called the Cnchi Installer.

Now, seven years later, someone decided to revive Antergos Linux under a new name, Antergos NeXT, still based on Arch Linux and still using the Cnchi graphical installer, but replacing Cinnamon with the KDE Plasma desktop environment by default.

MN

Marcus Nestor

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