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How do you prevent manjaro from bricking itself every few months? Do you just not update it? That's why I stopped using it. I have no idea what their QA looks l
by pmarreck 5y ago
How do you prevent manjaro from bricking itself every few months? Do you just not update it? That's why I stopped using it. I have no idea what their QA looks like but it can't be very extensive.
I'm now testing out straight-up Arch with a manually-installed KDE Plasma for a few months now (inside a VM that I frequently snapshot). No issues so far.
- deltaonefour 5y agoI just update it all the time and it never bricks.
- pmarreck 5y agoInteresting. I was updating it once a day or so and this still happened.
- ryantgtg 5y agoIt never bricked for me, but I had regular issues from updates when I used it a few years ago. I don’t remember the details, though. I switched to Arch and things are much more stable. The only thing that annoys me on Arch (or any rolling distro) is that you have to update things like postgresql as they come, because holding that package back counts as a “partial upgrade”.
- jethro_tell 5y agoTo me that's one of the benefits for most things, I can understand something like not wanting to take a feature bump when there's still support for a version. You can just install that version out of aur and that package will track that specific major version. Next time instead of an upgrade. Backup, remove the pacman package, install the air package and restore and you'll save yourself a lot of headaches.