To be frank your posts @zo0M even confuses me as a distro maintainer. You should be more exact on which image you had installed, which worked and which shows issues on your hardware.
With each stable update we normally provide a fresh install media, at least for Gnome, Plasma and XFCE. Community editions might not have that. Also each install media we most likely offer with several kernel options, however the default download ISO is currently based on linux65. Other images with older kernels you might find here: Manjaro 23.0 Uranos released
We also provide a package list of all packages included in a install media.
2023-11-06 marks the 23.1 Vulcan cycle. We have NOT published any stable branch based install media for that series. However development releases on a daily basis are available for all major desktops.
- Releases · manjaro-gnome/download · GitHub
- Releases · manjaro-plasma/download · GitHub
- Releases · manjaro-xfce/download · GitHub
Those are not tested and generated by a CI. Since the updates trickle down, you can check an image from 30. October or earlier to mostly match this update snapshot of packages. Test the image and see if the live session works or not on your end.
In short:
- you can have a kernel regression, hence try a different kernel series. We support 7 in parallel
- even that we started to ship Gnome 45.1 to stable you can have issues due to extensions or personal settings on your end. Hence test a developer image or test even a different desktop environment but with latest packages to see if Gnome is the culprint
- as you already figured out: you can decide if you want to upgrade your system or not. Manjaro-Team tries to get the best possible releases out there, but edge cases like yours might not be covered
Hope this helps to narrow down your issues you might have with your hardware and find a possible solution.