Quick & Dirty Advice™
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Make sure you have a working backup of your system.
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Always back up your non-system data separately, i.e.
/homeand/srv. -
For full system updates, update your system from a
ttywhile completely logged out of the GUI environment. See [HowTo] Updating Manjaro as safely as possible. -
After updating your system…
° clean out your orphans (sudo pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qdtq));
° update your AUR packages, and if necessary, your FlatPaks and Snaps;
° issue a clean reboot;
° tend to your.pacnewfiles;
° make a full system backup again.