Oh, nice. If oldlinux used the most recent iso to install, it seems the script found its way in the default installation and does not have to be added manually anymore.
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Gosh! I was worried that we might have the infamosus situation again.
But what you just said, I shouldnât worry. It will be just updated?
As I have it, yeah.
Pamac told you - already there and up to date, skipping, nothing more to do.
Otherwise it would have updated or freshly installed if missing.
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Yes, I just downloaded the the minimal ISO a few hours ago and installed from it.
I am impressed with Manjaro!
As I said I was impressed seeing installing and uninstalling kernels just went fine, the system looked after everything and I didnât have to worry about anything about Grub.
Honestly, in this short time, I am impressed with Manjaro.
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A greatly contributing factor to stability is the video partâŚthe nvidia drivers have been problematic more than once.
Since your inxi shows you only use the built in intel video, you should be fine.
Other than that - stable branch, LTS kernel (66 or 61), do not enable and use AUR and SNAP and read the announcements before updating and you will be stable and fine.
If you read the wiki and the tutorial posts in the tutorial section, you will already be âa pro.â
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When I buy a laptop I make sure it all Intel as generally Nvidia can be problematic with some distros.
Thatâs what I did. See my other thread. I am just a normal home user, no games, my use is generally as I mentioned above. No need for AUR or such stuff.
I hope I will be somedayđ
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Welcome to Manjaro 
Im using Manjaro KDE for 4 yearâs now on my PC Intel/Nvidia (first distro, since my first quick encounter with Linux around 1997 with Redhat Caldera for 1 month) and i used Manjaro KDE 2,5 yearâs on my AMD Laptop.
I never had to reinstall Manjaro in all this time, Timeshift Rsync Snapshots gives me always a good feeling to have a safe habor⌠so even when i do dangerous stuff i can count on it.
Thatâs said, i had 2 times a big driver issue with Nvidia⌠1 time i had to reinstall the driver from TTY after a Release Update, which happen around 2020⌠but besides this one big issue i was mostly just happy with Manjaro and never faced really big problems.
Just visit regulary the Announcement Topic in this forum Stable Updates - Manjaro Linux Forum (second posting from Philm) and look for Maintaince stuff which happenâs rarely but sometimes little work that needs to be done. Check also for pacnew (newer config files) files to merge your settings.
I recommend also to use a LTS Kernel actually 6.6 is the newest Kernel
and refresh your mirrors before doing a Release Update.
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Thanks for the welcome @Kobold
This sounds amazing and impressing.
I believe that users should be just getting updates, no need to reinstall. It is software anyway, so why a fresh install or even just an install. I believe it should be rolling.
And by rolling I do not mean the latest software, I mean getting the upgrade or whatever you call it just as an update not an install, even it is an install in place.
I will look at it for sure.
I already have the latest 2 LTS kernels as in my other thread How to Double Check I am on Most Stable System? (as @Mirdarthos suggested to have more than one kernel just in case).
Sorry, why would I care to refresh the mirrors? And how to do it any way?
I just do sudo pacman -Syyu
Isnât this enough?
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sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syu
This is easy enough. Though there are other variations. Cheers.
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I personally stay away from 2 Kernel ways⌠i never had a problem with just the latest LTS Kernel⌠it saves also download time/SSD Weariness after each update.
I recommend to have always prepared a USB Stick with Ventoy⌠which you can easy update. To have a Linux Live Boot to hand⌠from there you can also install another Kernel if you have too.
Additional SSD with ext4 partition for Timeshift, not only saved your files but also let you restore with the GUI help to easy restore your whole OS.
Im not sure if this only a pamac problem, probably you can ignore it with pacman 
but from my understanding, you need to refresh your mirrors regularly with:
sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack
Which sadly donât happen automatically 
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Thanks @soundofthunder
This looks really interesting.
Thank you all for all the support and feedback. Amazing community and distro!
I understand your point, but just in case.
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I also recommend to activate Reisub and disable Plymouth.
With Reisub you can restore a freezing system again and Plymouth is just a fancy loading screen option, so disable it gives you a option to see what happen when you boot into Linux, but also you see what happenâs when you shutdown your system.
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I did already a few minutes ago.
You were reading my mind!
I will see what is Plymouth and see what to do with it.
Welcome to Manjaro! Using a 6+ year old installation here. Some small issues along the way, but no show-stoppers, especially with all the resources we have here on the Forum, etc. and this installation is on its second machine and its third storage device.
I havenât actually removed Plymouth (yet) myself, but I did remove quiet and splash from the GRUB cmdline, in /etc/default/grub 
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I have been on Linux since 2000. Back then there was only fresh installs.
Even recently, I have been to some rolling releases (OpenSuse Tumbelweed that didnât live long on my machine, and EndeavourOS which was fine), but I had to reinstall a few times as I broke my system and once when the infamous issue with Grub like a year ago.
That long installation is really impressive.
I have wasted a lot of time away from Manjaro I think.
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Longer than Iâve ever had a windows installation survive, even though back then I was already unknowingly doing my partitioning âthe Linux Wayâ, with separate system, data, cache, etc⌠(I havenât touched Windows (outside a virtual machine, for curiosityâs sake) in about a decade myself).
Likewise, it seems, although I did enjoy using Mint for a few years. Still have it on a âreserveâ machine.
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For me, I started Linux like in 2000, but was still not that completely Linux, dual booting or Windows on another machine. Since 2004/2005 I was Linux only since then (at home), but at work unfortunately it was Windows!
So I can say Iâve been Linux only since 2004/2005.
As I am already retired since 2021 I have no Windows in my life, I am not forced to use it at work. So I am much happier.
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Iâm using Manjaro KDE for 10 years - the same install!!! This is how stable it can be. Of course, some issues came along, but either I or the upstream fixed it. It also depends on how well are you familiar with Plasma and can you fix issues?
Many of KDE issues comes from broken configs so sometimes deleting old ones is needed (like during update from Plasma 5 to 6).
Some people have weird problems, but those are individual ones, so I canât tell if it works as stable for you as it worked for me. I run Plasma since 5.3 times continuously on the same distro.
Currently, Iâm mostly on testing branch, occasionally jumping into unstable branch to get the newest Plasma quicker. No regrets.
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Same install!! 10 years!!!
Absolutely this is a miracle, you donât even distro hop?
But 10 years⌠no way I can even imagine it!
I will wait and see my installation.
Well, I believe most of the issues come from the user himself, thatâs me at least, it is me who always broke the systems.
I hope from now on, I will just behave and stop distro hoping.
I have another old laptops to play with.
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