Is Manjaro likely to "break due to updates"?

[ehhen]

I think this article is great. Check it out.

It seems that you have to give something up to get something called stability.
You’re not going to get years of stability without any maintenance time.
I guess we just have to accept this.

[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…

• a certain amount of prior experience with and knowledge of GNU/Linux;
• a willingness to learn that which one doesn’t know or understand;
• a willingness to keep the system up to date;
• a willingness to engage in manual intervention, such as in the event that an update brings along .pacnew files, which must neither be ignored nor blindly copied over the existing configuration files;

My main manjaro is 7 years old.
n my environment, Endeavor OS and CachyOS have been coexisting recently.

In the past year, the day Endeavor OS broke, manjaro also broke. It was the same cause. At that time, each BBS had a “solution” for treatment.
I think it would be difficult for an average user to keep it running without doing anything at all.
If that is unacceptable, I think a distribution other than the archLinux family, that is, the YY.04 distribution (ubuntu), would be better.

truth

However, I am essentially a lazy and unmotivated user.