I just wanted to quickly post some appreciation for the Manjaro team. I’ve been a Linux user going way back to Slackware on floppy disks in the 90s, through to Debian until a couple of years ago when I switched to Manjaro, and I’ve never had a distro stay so stable yet still up to date as this one. I really am a fan of the rolling Arch design but with the stability delay. This works so well. Thanks!
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Unless you have nvidia 
but that is not a manjaro problem.
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I agree, Manjaro for the win!
@Teo and I’m using nvidia 
Not all Nvidia chipsets are equal.
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My three NVIDIA computers have been running Manjaro for about five years without any problems. I haven’t had a single issue with the NVIDIA drivers.
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I agree - for at least 8 years now I haven’t felt any urge to find anything more stable, as long as you do the chores when pacnews come in and keep up to date with major upgrades and issues, then it just keeps rolling on.
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Then you have been exceptionally lucky. 
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All three use the same Intel Nvidia graphics card combination. The Cinnamon desktop runs very reliably on all of them.
$ inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] driver: nvidia
v: 570.133.07
Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 driver:
X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia gpu: i915 resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,nouveau,nvidia,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 570.133.07
renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650/PCIe/SSE2
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 drivers: nvidia,intel surfaces: xcb,xlib
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi x11: xprop,xrandr
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Me neither. And I use
$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
wayland
$ nvidia-smi | head -n 4
Sun Apr 13 09:51:53 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.133.07 Driver Version: 570.133.07 CUDA Version: 12.8 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
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Another point-of-view is that it is other people who are exceptionally unlucky, since I too have been using Nvidia without any problem. Or perhaps it is just the first year or two which is fine and it is about to all go wrong… +++carrier lost+++
Graphics details
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915
v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Xe process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21 ports:
active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a68
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: nvidia v: 570.133.07 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
non-free: 550-570.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-04; EOL~2026-12-xx)
arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023
bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:25a0 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Sonix USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-7:3 chip-ID: 322e:202c
class-ID: 0e02
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
d-rect: 1920x2160 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 pos: primary,top model: Asus VC239 serial: <filter>
built: 2018 res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 96 gamma: 1.2
size: 509x286mm (20.04x11.26") diag: 584mm (23") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: bottom model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x1521 built: 2020 res:
mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 125% (1.25) to: 1536x864 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2
size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9
modes: 1920x1080
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia nouveau drv: nvidia
platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: nouveau device: 2 drv: iris
device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: nvidia
wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.3-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT1)
device-ID: 8086:9a68 memory: 7.5 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 layers: 1 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 570.133.07
device-ID: 10de:25a0 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 1 type: integrated-gpu
name: Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT1) driver: mesa intel v: 25.0.3-arch1.1
device-ID: 8086:9a68 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
I suppose part of the problem is we still don’t know how many happy Nvidia users there are, just how many unhappy ones.
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Unhappy Nvidia users do seem to greatly outnumber that of intel or AMD graphics users. Nonetheless, some statistics would be quite a valuable asset…
We’ve already seen how receptive some of the more vocal Community members are to that general concept. 
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I can confirm I was on an RTX 3070 for quite a while on it without issues, but I definitely couldn’t run wayland - at least I wasn’t willing to put in the effort to make it work. With my AMD GPU now, I’m on wayland and it’s been smooth sailing.