What are the advantages or disadvantages to using Manjaro instead of Ubuntu-based distros?

[winnie]

@WhiteCzar

I think the only thing that Ubuntu has over Manjaro is that the LTS version can do live kernel updates, that is, you’ll never have to reboot your system at all, even after a kernel update. I know some people really don’t like doing updates and rebooting afterwards.

This is not because of rolling release vs iteration release (version freeze) distros.

It’s everything to do with the package naming convention that Arch (for whatever reason) decided to settle with a long time ago…

Mounting a NAS using systemd - mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system

It’s not sleek nor perfect, but works well enough for me. You install (from the official Arch Community repository; not from the AUR) the package: kernel-modules-hook Now whenever you update your kernel (even the kernel of the currently live running system), the modules under /usr/lib/modules/ will remain preserved, thanks to the included and auto-enabled pacman “hook”. It also includes a systemd service (linux-modules-cleanup.service) which will automatically prune old modules on a schedule …

Read the subsection titled: “I have to mention this, even if it’s unpopular: a distro like Ubuntu handles kernel updates properly”.