Expectations from a stable release : an user's perspective

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The real answer is @Strit 's one and therefore I’ve marked that as an answer, but you can help yourself a lot by:

  • Keeping at least 2 LTS kernels on your system and boot the latest one unless you run into trouble there and then you boot the previous one…

  • use pamac upgrade from a command-line to upgrade.

  • Ensure grub is showing while booting:

    • Execute:

      sudo nano --backup /etc/default/grub

    • Change (or add?) the following 3 lines:

      GRUB_TIMEOUT=3
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
#GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden

      (3 or higher is fine, add the # before the lines above if those lines are present)

    • Ctrl+X Y Enter to save if there is anything to save

    • If you did save, execute:

      sudo update-grub

    • Reboot

  • Read the Announcements

  • Read the list of modules/applications/libraries that are going to be updated before you press Y

  • Read the /var/log/pacman.log after updating and follow instructions (especially .pacnew instructions)

  • And for heaven’s sake:

:+1:

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