Manjaro phosh annoying problems and a bit of usage experience

[kqlnut]

You might try the latest nightly release.  They said a lot of that got fixed as of the release yesterday.  They even added wake-mobile.  Still waiting for my phone but im planning on running this distro.  Does it seem that things that get fixed frequently get unfixed with bleeding edge?

I've been running the unstable branch for a couple of months now and had a very good experience with it. Major regressions are very rare (the only real annoyance was a problem with calls for a couple of days, happened only once) and for me don't outweigh the frequent fixes and development. I can recommend it.

How can i switch between stable and unstable? Changing some kind of repository config?

You can do it with these commands:

Code:

sudo pacman-mirrors --api --set-branch arm-unstable
sudo pacman-mirrors -f5 && sudo pacman -Syyu

Instead of running the first command you could also directly change the entry in /etc/pacman-mirrors.conf. To switch back, just change the branch back to arm-stable (and allow package downgrades with sudo pacman -Syyuu).
More details can be found here.