How Long/Short to Delay Updates?

[scotty65]

@oldtux

I just want to avoid reading the announcements.

A new user who is not willing to spend a few minutes each month properly maintaining their Manjaro system might be better off switching to a fixed-point-release distro:

[Consideration] Is Manjaro the right distribution for you?

Manjaro is NOT suitable for absolute beginners No, it’s not. And we — as the helpful community members of this forum — regularly have to explain this to the newcomers. Or at least, if we get the chance, because it is not exactly unheard of that a vocal newbie throws it out there themselves in a fit of frustration — if not arrogance or entitlement, because there’s a lot of that going round as well. So why is Manjaro not a distribution for absolute beginners? 1. Manjaro is a rolling-release d…

This part of the above is very important:

3. Manjaro requires a commitment to monitoring the forum

For every bundled update, regardless whether it’s for the Stable branch, the Testing branch or the Unstable branch, and regardless whether it’s for the x86-64 architecture or for the aarch64 architecture, the Manjaro Team will always publish a dedicated announcement thread under the Announcements category.

• The first post of this thread details the changes that the update brings.
• The second post of this thread lists all of the potential problems, as well as how to solve them or work around them.

It is also important to remember that, occasionally, some of those potential problems need to remedied by the user before they do the system update.