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.
No manual intervention and no issue here (KDE plasma user). Smooth as always.
Clickbait title: They’re not urging folks not to Update, they’re urging folks to read the known issues and workarounds page because gnome and plasma are both killing X11 support.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/stable-update-2025-12-08-25-1-anh-linh-preview/183479
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 X11 causing issues for some users cause it’s outdated, wayland fixing a bug involving the package manager meaning you have to run a special command to fix it, and a backup utility of some kind being borked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.
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.
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.
But are you sure the exact same problem occurs on Arch too?
Documented on the Arch wiki for months now.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Starting_Plasma
Starting from Plasma 6.4, the Wayland session has matured enough to become the default and preferred one: the X11 session is only available separately with the plasma-x11-session package…
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME
It uses Wayland, and the available sessions are…
Manjaro is the gateway to vanilla Arch install
In my experience:
Breaking manjaro is the gateway to a vanilla Arch install
This is true
Manjaro. Not even once.
Manjaro is a Trojan Horse.
I did once. Never again
I’d rather use Omarchy than Manjaro that’s for sure and I absolutely hate Omarchy.
same.
