I said I wasn’t going to bring this up ever again, but since the forum mods have kindly given me my own thread on how to bring potential issues to a user’s attention before they start updating, I repost my post from the “caught by surprise” thread
This is in response to @Kobold 's post above about a popup bar in the forum, which I don’t remember, probably because I don’t use Nvidia.
Some users don’t visit the forum UNTIL they have already updated and face problems. In my view, if you want to catch users and inform them of potential issues before they actually update, the best place to put the pop up is in pamac GUI itself.
The low hanging fruit are the users who update with the GUI since I think the people who update via terminal are more likely to have better habits about reading update announcements first, and/or be able to handle problems that arise. I know that’s a generalisation, but I think it’s a logical one to make.