Manjaro 25.1 "Anh-Linh" preview ships major upgrades but users are warned to wait due to several breaking changes requiring manual intervention.

Manjaro has pushed the first stable-branch update in the upcoming “Anh-Linh” cycle, serving as a preview of the 25.1 release and introducing major changes to the desktop, kernel, and system components. However, the team is issuing a warning to users: do not update yet.

The reason is that several parts of the update require manual intervention, and in some cases, applying them without preparation may break existing systems (more on this below).

The release brings major upgrades such as Plasma 6.5.3, GNOME 49.2, (eventually) COSMIC Beta 9, LXQt 2.3, updated NVIDIA drivers, Blender 5.0, LibreOffice 25.8.3, a refreshed Mesa stack, and the first build of the Manjaro Control Panel.

  • SethranKada@lemmy.caEnglish
    141·
    2 days ago

    Why are people acting like this is some big problem that Manjaro caused. Everything they warn about is just stuff caused by upstream stuff. X11 causing issues for some users cause it’s outdated, wayland fixing a bug involving the package manager meaning you have to run a special command to fix it, and a backup utility of some kind being borked upstream. None of that is Manjaro’s fault.

    • LeFantome@programming.dev
      11·
      16 hours ago

      I used to think the problems with Manjaro stemmed from Arch. The I tied EndeavourOS and I thought that EOS was fixing the Arch problems.

      Then I tried Arch and realized that all the problems are the result of Manjaro. Arch does not have them. None of the other derivatives have them either.

      • Hawk@lemmynsfw.com
        1·
        12 hours ago

        Arch has been very stable for me if you update regularly. Endeavour OS also has been quite good. More so than both Ubuntu and Fedora have been IME.

        I haven’t tried Manjaro but I’ve only heard bad things.

        My recommendation to anyone starting out: Endeavour OS is an excellent compromise between the complexity of eg Gentoo or Void and the abstraction of eg Ubuntu. The wiki on its own is good cause enough.