Fresh install manjaro i3 and first update

Hello and welcome,

i3 is a community project and got no new iso based on latest stable snap in quite some time, so yes, it was normal to have a huge system update.

Is important to know what errors you encountered. Usually each announcement has a mini wiki. Some updates come with demoting some packages to AUR … That is also something to check.
Here is an example from way back regarding python

Those do not get mention anymore as the new updates come around … but reading the announcements is always a good thing

For timeshift there are a couple of things you can check

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Synchronization_and_backup_programs
if you are using btrfs

To consider

And in the future when you ask for help

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