Installation was a little ‘bumpy’, but it finished with no real problems.
Tried installing the software I wanted post installation, and got a conflict message. Then I ran pacman -Syu to clear things up, and I got a huge list of errors. 20+ programs were all ‘newer than the core/extra’. So it makes me think that I am somehow on a testing repo, but it’s a fresh install.
Anyway, I try the refresh/force updates with pacman and I don’t really get anywhere. I am currently on the live version and noticed that it is the new kernel as well, and that after forcing the updates I get an odd ‘Kernel is unsupported’ message.
I downgraded the kernel, but because the software is all based on what seems to be testing repos my wifi gave out. Anyway, I will tinker around and see if I can’t figure out if the live version is using the lts repos or testing ones.