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I'm running an up to date Manjaro system, and although I have kernel 6.1.9-1 available as an option, it's not installed and it's not listed as LTS nor is it "recommended".

Does this mean that'll change soon with an update, and I should start running this kernel?

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You may want to move away from Manjaro in general[0], but I would advise against doing anything that the OS doesn't expect you to do - so I'd wait for an update.

[0] https://github.com/arindas/manjarno . EndeavorOS seems like a pretty good "Arch but easy" distro these days, and maybe Manjaro's improved since the last time I ran it (a few years ago now)

Thanks for the info, and the link. I will read it over. I'm thinking I'll probably move back to PopOS when they release their DE Cosmic. I used to run pop and loved it, but really wanted to try an arch distro. Endeavor looks great, but I'm not interested in anything "terminal centric" which is the first sentence on their site. But thanks for the suggestion!

Manjaro w/ KDE was my daily driver OS for several years before I switched to EndeavourOS w/ KDE a few months ago. The only major difference between the two that makes EndeavourOS more "terminal centric" is that you have to use the CLIs pacman and yay for installing packages, as Pamac the GUI package manager is something Manjaro provides. That said, I highly recommend making the switch and think with some small adjustments, you'll feel right at home.

CLI-centric does not sound great for an HTPC, though. I think Manjaro is not bad choice for hassle free TV computers with modern hardware. It has much better hardware support than Ubuntu out of the box. Updates rarely break something other than Gnome (I find anything else incredibly hard to use on a TV) extensions. It does not get in the way and it rarely needs my attention.

Yeah, it's a easy use. That's a major plus in my book. I really don't want to babysit my appliances.

PopOS is one of my favorite distro's, I can't wait for Cosmic to come out.

Even if I don't go back to Pop on all my boxes, I may standardize on Cosmic as my DE.

Why run "an arch distros" - why not just run arch?

Fwiw, I'm well aware of those issues cited, and still choose to use Manjaro as a daily driver.

Completely valid.

I used Manjaro for a while and had recommended it to a semi-technical friend and it blew up in my face, so I tend to mention the issues when I see people using it.

Nothing wrong with choosing it of course as long as one is aware of the issues.

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