I couldn’t use the default installer cause it kept crashing when I was trying to set up encrypted LVM partitions. So I had to cobble something together through

I couldn’t use the default installer cause it kept crashing when I was trying to set up encrypted LVM partitions. So I had to cobble something together through the deprecated Manjaro Architect (which also had scenarios that crashed it, but at least I could cobble things together through gParted + disks to setup LUKS and it would resume from that point whereas the default installer insisted on setting up everything from scratch every time). When installing I recall it asking me to choose which backing package to use when installing the linux package and since Architect is curses based, that was through pacman and it didn’t indicate in any way that linux-65 was pre RC. So I’m not sure what the default Manjaro installer did, but I either pacman didn’t make it clear or I simply overlooked that it was pre RC. Overall I was quite surprised at how difficult it was to install Manjaro. Significantly worse experience than Arch because the installer kept crashing and wouldn’t work.