Unfortunately, yes - updating nvidia drivers is a constant issue with linux (it’s not strictly related with Manjaro), but I understand and share your frustration. IMO, Manjaro should do something about it. I had similar issues during each and every nvidia update.
If you prefer stability over rolling distros, you may consider installing Debian based linux. I personally still like Manjaro as long as the projects I use are well documented and the community is responsive enough.
Running a linux desktop in general is like becoming owner of a boat. You’re the owner, captain and the only skipper (mostly the only passenger as well), in opposed to commercial systems like Windows and OSX, where you just pay for the license and could fully start bitching loudly to their customer support, asking for your money back anytime you want. When you’re at the open sea in your boat and something starts failing within your system, you better know A LOT about mechanics and electronics of all the equipment you’ve got there. If you don’t, you better start reading some books really fast, since the boat is about to sink and you’re running out of time. Well, it’s not as extreme as that, but you get the point. Preparation is the key.
If you decide to stay, I would strongly advise to rely on a system that is more bullet proof by implementing a solid backup/restore routine and actively use it before each update i.e.:
You should consider to become familiar with reading PKBUILDs before any update and reading documentation to avoid similar issues. But in case you run into anything like this in the future, you can simply restore your last backup, postpone your update and don’t hesitate to report promptly your issue here, to the community, providing lots of necessary technical details. That way you will become an active part of our community, not only a bystander/leecher. I believe that the real power of every linux distro is in persistence of active members of its community.
I still haven’t reinstalled cuda (due to other issues I already mentioned) and so far i see no difference in using the system.
I was thinking of switching from dual boot with Windows to only Manjaro but after this experience I’m not willing to risk it (the XFCE on my AMD notebook also had problems with this update).
I hope you use separate EFI System Partition (ESP) for Windows and Linux. If not, you’re risking to encounter whole bunch of different kind of boogeymen out there. But even if you go for this approach (not sure why though), you will still need the backup/restore system I described above.
hi, maybe i should precise that i came to manjaro because older debian kernel did not succeed in managing nvidia 1050 optimus driver
so for those who own recent hardware, debian is not solution (official stable version is 5.4), maybe if you’re lucky, you will succeed with stable and newer kernel from backports edition, or with testing version
i would advice fedora for those who want stable distro with good support for Nvidia, since it worked well for me
another advice should be boycott for nvidia cards, as far i know amd support is better for linux
I followed the procedure of removing packages manually and it worked out fine @Bernd-L. I don’t think a less manual method will be available given that any further updates are blocked while this issue is present.