This morning the first “stable” version of Apricity OS was released. It is the Apricity OS 07.2016 Aspen version based on Arch and is aimed at beginners and advanced users. Right this morning after the announcement of the new Apricity OS was published, I downloaded it, transferred it to a USB, created a partition and installed it, curious to see the first stable version of the operating system.
In short: Visually it looks good. I installed the Cinnamon version, but functionally it still needs a lot of work. 
Let's start with the installer. For installation from a live DVD there is Calamares 2.3.0-3, which seemed to me much slower than the calamares of other distributions (for example Manjaro). However, calamares did not present any errors.
The system, because it is based on Arch Linux, is quite fast, and if you want to show your friends that you have Arch installed you can do so by showing them the boot screen. The distribution boots as Arch Linux since they have not yet given the name Apricity to the kernel.
I should mention that it uses minimal system resources, although I noticed many ghost processes that I honestly don't know where they came from.
Let’s move on: the distribution’s repos also need work. A search for “numix” only returned one result. Of course, there are alternative themes available from Arch’s AUR, but installing them requires a bit of work, which is not easy, especially if you’re a novice user.
Wine and PlayOnLinux come preinstalled. Thanks but I won't get them. For some it might be a great idea but for me who doesn't use Windows applications and doesn't play games, they are unnecessary.
Let's go to folder permissions. Only root can move folders to home! Imagine a novice user entering the process of doing cmd with terminal. Yes, there is the option to open the folder as root, but go ahead and edit the .mozilla folder as root and then try to run the application. The permissions have changed and firefox will not run. So, you have to cmd from terminal.
All of the above may seem simple to someone with Linux knowledge, but I mention it because the developers of Apricity OS developed it to be a simple and easy-to-use distribution that anyone can use.
Meanwhile, the competition is great when there is a Manjaro, and perhaps the comparison is unfair due to it being the first “stable” version for Apricity OS, but it is inevitable.
I'll stick with Manjaro..
