micnd90 [he/him,any]

I’ve been using Manjaro for 5+ years with no problem. Manjaro is a rolling distro, and unfortunately there is not enough volunteers in open source community to maintain a bleeding edge rolling distribution that is completely bug free. It is just a matter of personal preference how close to bleeding edge do you want your system to be between Arch, Manjaro, Endeavor, and OpenSUSE. I found that Manjaro is quite useful to have because I run non-FOSS programs like Dropbox, Zotero, MegaSYNC, and MATLAB.

One tips I have is that don’t bother to update every other week. There are plenty literal supercomputers running on outdated Linux OS or stable distro releases like Fedora. Linux by default is already more secure. Just because there are updates available doesn’t mean one should do it, unless you need the bleeding edge updates due to your line of work. I thought we install Linux to run away from annoying Windows updates. If you update Manjaro like every 6 months or so, it is pretty unlikely (statistically) that you get a bad update.

Tell me why I should upgrade from my Linux 4.20 kernel

I have been daily driving since 2018 on Manjaro + KDE. In the beginning, considering it is a rolling distro I just update the system every other week and it would break fairly often. But in reality most users really don’t need to do sudo pacman -syyu unless they need certain and specific software update. That’s the great thing about Linux, it is not forcing you to update like Windows update. You do update when you specifically need it and know what you want. There’s barely any serious virus or security exploit for average Linux users. There are many top world supercomputers running on outdated kernels.

If you are not chasing bleeding edge status, and update your Manjaro less regularly, say on par with Linux Mint update schedules of every 6 months or so, then it’ll break less often unless you are really really unlucky.

Konquered

This open air prison looks kinda lit literally and figuratively, probably has better public transport, education, and healthcare than my city (Denver, lmao)

Thanks Sonic

This is me but with video games.

I replayed action games like DMC3,4,5, Bayonetta, MGR, Ninja Gaidens and Souls game like DS1,2,3, Sekiro in constant rotation. At some point the intense gameplay just become a comfy single player flow state. Recently Hi-Fi Rush has entered the rotation. Unfortunately, Elden Ring is out of the club for now because it is too goddamn long.

Seems like what you like is Manjaro and what you have issues with is Cinnamon. Can’t you just switch the DE? I’ve been running Manjaro KDE for a while and have no complaints, I like KDE and I like Konqi