The prerequisite for using a rolling release is knowing what to do if an upgrade fails. Anyone who doesn’t want to or can’t acquire this knowledge will constantly have to rely on help or even give up.
So if we don’t feel like maintaining a rolling release or are overwhelmed by it, but want to stick with a Linux distribution, we should consider an immutable system. My personal recommendation: https://shani.dev/
Some users know the developer, Shrinivas Kumbhar, from Manjaro times and/or from the beginnings of Garuda.
Immutable systems can make sense depending on the use case, but I don’t like them, just like Flatpak. Rolling releases require more work, but it usually doesn’t bother me.
To be honest, I can’t do anything with an immutable OS either. It would bore me much, much more than Manjaro did. But I’ll still test ShaniOs, just out of curiosity and because I trust @librewish.
Thanks for clarifying concisely.
I couldn’t figure much out from the Manjaro sites, so I quit Manjaro and installed CachyOS and came here after I got my data stabilised.
If it was all for nothing, okay, maybe that’s true.
But I’m comfortable now here in CachyOS-land.
No disrespect intended to Manjaro-land.
Peace be with ya, and thanks for clarifying what actually happened.
i came to CachyOS from Manjaro last november. I am very glad to have made the jump. Welcome aboard!
Yes, I’ve had two notebooks running Manjaro stable for years and there are no broken kernels. Under cachy, all v3 kernels are currently unusable on my system, presumably due to the broken VirtualBox DKMS. It’s not the end of the world if enough alternative kernels are installed, but it’s definitely different from Manjaro, where I haven’t seen this for a long time; the 7.0 kernel seems to have a lot of problems.
those kernels would be equally broken for you if you’d last updated cachy the day before they dropped or a year (or more) ago.
(There’s no free lunch with compiler optimizations. They can uncover bugs that otherwise don’t cause problems, or introduce their own issues. It’s not like other distros are just lazy)
No question, I already know which branch of cachyOS I’m on. But I wouldn’t install it for my mother. 