Manjaro 24.0, based on Arch Linux, has been released pulling in a whole lot of upgrades across every part of the system. Despite a good few screw-ups in the past, Manjaro is actually a pretty reasonable choice for those of you who want a very up to date system with an easy install. It's even the Linux distribution Valve picked in their Developing for Steam Deck without a Dev-Kit guide.
Manjaro 24.0 Wynsdey brings with it GNOME 46.1, KDE Plasma 6.0.4 (with KDE Gear 24.02.02), Linux kernel 6.9 for the latest hardware support and Xfce 4.18. You also get Mesa 24.06, NVIDIA 550.78 and numerous updates to other software.
Pictured - Manjaro 24.0 Wynsdey, KDE Plasma
See their release announcement, along with some changes on their forum. Download from the Manjaro website.
Going by Valve's own survey and ours, Manjaro remains one of the more popular Linux distributions on the desktop. Have you used it recently, or are you using it now? Let me know in the comments how you're getting on with it.
At some point this year we're also going to see the Manjaro Gaming Edition which will come pre-installed on the Orange Pi Neo Linux gaming handheld.
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Plenty of fresh updates, just a few tweaks here and there and works like a charm!! 
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Mohandevir May 14
Just got the upgrade, on my PC... After the update, I was left with an empty desktop. All the apps had been removed. I had to reinstall the desktop with "pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -" to get them back.
Hu... rray!
Hu... rray!
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After the update, I was left with an empty desktop.
Poll does not look good. only 62% "No issue, everything went smoothly"
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/stable-update-2024-05-13-kernels-plasma-6-gnome-46-lxqt-2-0-nvidia-pacman/161404
i think i wait with the update.
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pleasereadthemanual May 14
Just got the upgrade, on my PC... After the update, I was left with an empty desktop. All the apps had been removed. I had to reinstall the desktop with "pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -" to get them back.How...how did that even happen? What?
Hu... rray!
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Linux_Rocks May 14
Judging by how those on this site hate Manjaro, this comments section is shockingly mild thus far. 
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Last edited by Linux_Rocks on 14 May 2024 at 12:50 pm UTC
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Mohandevir May 14
Just got the upgrade, on my PC... After the update, I was left with an empty desktop. All the apps had been removed. I had to reinstall the desktop with "pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -" to get them back.How...how did that even happen? What?
Hu... rray!
No clue. It's a fresh install from last week. No aur activated. Just flatpaks.
There was an update available. Saw that KDE 6 was installed and during the upgrade, all the apps were removed. That's all I can say.
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legluondunet May 14
Update went fine on my side (XFCE), except a little issue I'm not sure where it come from, with Transmission-gtk, like when I right click on items it appears either black or zoomed, strange.
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It's a big update. The biggest in years. It went pretty well considering the switch to wayland.
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Mohandevir May 14
Yay.
Spoiler, click me
!link
That's exactly what I lived with Debian and Debian-like distributions, until I migrated to Arch/Manjaro.
Seriously, I did a lot of distro hopping (Arch, Debian and Fedora based) and never found a distro that didn't have some annoying issues. It's just a matter of what you are willing to cope with. This said, they are all less annoying than Windows, in my opinion.
Manjaro is the "lesser evil", atm, to me.
Last edited by Mohandevir on 14 May 2024 at 2:35 pm UTC
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Satisfied user for years. But I'm a bit hesitant before this big upgrade...
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legluondunet May 14
Just got the upgrade, on my PC... After the update, I was left with an empty desktop. All the apps had been removed. I had to reinstall the desktop with "pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -" to get them back.
Hu... rray!
Just updated Manjaro Gnome and...everything work, no issue for the moment. A far better experience than upgrading Ubuntu to a new version...when you have to finish manually in command line with apt-get install -f and apt-get clean...
Last edited by legluondunet on 14 May 2024 at 3:12 pm UTC
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Mohandevir May 14
Just got the upgrade, on my PC... After the update, I was left with an empty desktop. All the apps had been removed. I had to reinstall the desktop with "pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -" to get them back.
Hu... rray!
Just updated Manjaro Gnome and...everything work, no issue for the moment. A far better experience than upgrading Ubuntu to a new version...when you have to finish manually in command line with apt-get install -f and apt-get clean...
We are on the same page.
I just had that weird occurrence and tought to share my experience, in case it happened to someone else, in case it could help.
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LordDaveTheKind May 14
Love Gnome 46. I just hope the extensions I have been struggling to get working so far don't crash any longer.
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Just got the upgrade, on my PC... After the update, I was left with an empty desktop. All the apps had been removed. I had to reinstall the desktop with "pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -" to get them back.
Hu... rray!
After updating it, all the applications disappeared, I cursed as only we Sicilians know how to do, making all the existing saints fall from the sky... I counted to a thousand and solved it by restarting x11...
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Mohandevir May 14
Just got the upgrade, on my PC... After the update, I was left with an empty desktop. All the apps had been removed. I had to reinstall the desktop with "pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -" to get them back.
Hu... rray!
After updating it, all the applications disappeared, I cursed as only we Sicilians know how to do, making all the existing saints fall from the sky... I counted to a thousand and solved it by restarting x11...
In fact, the first thing I did was restarting my computer... Still empty. KDE issue?
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I have it now too :-) and mostly everything is just working.
The running Cat applet which shows how busy the CPU is is obviously inkompatible and just doesnt work - understandable.
And as it is an Update and not an new install it seems to have and use the old Setting of my "active Corner" which i used but there is no more Config Tab/i couldn't find it. So i even cant deactivat that now :D
But i will later look if i just havn't installed something that i need to shop that cinfigurations or if there is a Bug, if it is now unsupported.
Thats only minor things. I am pretty sure the Runnung cat will sometime get a update/new applet :D
The running Cat applet which shows how busy the CPU is is obviously inkompatible and just doesnt work - understandable.
And as it is an Update and not an new install it seems to have and use the old Setting of my "active Corner" which i used but there is no more Config Tab/i couldn't find it. So i even cant deactivat that now :D
But i will later look if i just havn't installed something that i need to shop that cinfigurations or if there is a Bug, if it is now unsupported.
Thats only minor things. I am pretty sure the Runnung cat will sometime get a update/new applet :D
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Just got the upgrade, on my PC... After the update, I was left with an empty desktop. All the apps had been removed. I had to reinstall the desktop with "pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -" to get them back.
Hu... rray!
After updating it, all the applications disappeared, I cursed as only we Sicilians know how to do, making all the existing saints fall from the sky... I counted to a thousand and solved it by restarting x11...
In fact, the first thing I did was restarting my computer... Still empty. KDE issue?
it's a strange error, rebooting didn't fix the problem for me, but switching from x11 to Wayland and then back to x11 fixed the problem...
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