I’m sorry for saying this, this may sound rude but I assure you, I have the best interests of Manjaro at heart. But the last two stable updates have caused quite many bugs that users have had to fix themselves. Now, I’d have not said anything if it was Arch or Gentoo, but this is Manjaro ‘stable’. I…

[image] W1sE: and would love for the future releases to be stable(er). Great. Switch to Testing or Unstable branch to help out testing the packages and update process. That’s what’s going to help.

Yeah, I understand, and I really plan to move to testing once I get a new machine. But till then this is the way I guess. Thanks!

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…

As a user of Manjaro since 2017, I still consider myself to be a “noob”, and I insist upon the fact that I’m not a contributer. I’m sorry to hear that you have encountered problems with the past few updates. As to “Stable” Branch being “press and forget” I would say “Yay” and “Nay” on that one. As …

[image] W1sE: Isn’t this the whole point of marketing Manjaro as a beginner friendly distro? Otherwise why shouldn’t I just use Arch that comes with an installer nowadays? of course you free to try. we’ll love to hear how that goes, if you are having issues with you entitlement here. serious…

I haven’t had any major issues with Manjaro.I started out on the stable branch then switched to testing and now the unstable branch.I have learned to check the forum before doing and major updates to see if there are issues and if there are usually someone has already posted a fix.My main problem is…

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[image] W1sE: Would love to but I have only 1 machine( daily driver) that I cannot risk testing on. Sorry if I came across as whiny, I just wanted the betterment of this distro. I’ve been on testing for about 8 months and I’ve not had a single update that has made my machine unbootable/comple…

[image] Fabby: Ensure grub is showing while booting why is that important?

If you know about grub's Shift magic, it’s not… If you have no clue what I’m talking about: That’s why! :grin:

care to explain? :slight_smile: i don’t know about grub's Shift magic. also what’s the difference between sudo update grub and sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg ? or they’re not related?

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