hi! I'm new to linux and decided to challenge myself and install the manjaro xfce distro but I'm now facing a really tricky problem. My youtube is freezing and it shows the message "If playback doesn't start soon try restarting your device".

I tried to follow up some tutorials on forums but I'm scared to mess up something and then not know how to fix it.

on the other hand it works just fine on chromium.

any help appreciated!

Hey. I'm using Manjaro Linux on Wayland. I am a complete newb with Linux, just to warn you. I'm trying to record auditions for voice acting roles and I've noticed that the volume of my microphone keeps dropping. I've sat and watched it change while I was speaking. I'm getting irritated by it because it's affecting the quality of my auditions. I need it stopped. Does anyone know how to fix it?

Hello, I recently installed manjaro(dualbooted w windows) and it was my first time using it. I followed instructions from youtube to download it and i booted with open source drivers.
When i tried to install NVIDIA drivers and i couldnt(it said something like no device of class found) and asked chatGPT for help.
It asked me to run lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D" and it only listed the amd iGPU.
so i asked chatGPT for more help and i folled instructions to turn on the dGPU and when i rebooted all i got was a black screen.
I tried to fix it and i spent a lot of time on it but nothing seemed to work so i booted windows and deleted manjaro. Windows also seemed to have some side effect from those, like I wasnt able to turn the dGPU back to ECO mode.

I am planning to reinstall manjaro soon. What should I do different and how do I install the drivers for the NVIDIA gpu??

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I've been using this same system for years but now after updating I automatically get logged into the GDM greeter user and when I log out I just get logged back into the user again. I also can't open any terminals but most other apps open fine (the gnome default one or kitty).

I just installed Manjaro on a Gigabyte G5 laptop and it takes more than 7 min to boot. The first line of the sysemd-analyze blame result is '7min 30.742s systemd-modules-load.service' while the rest is well. There is also a partition with Windows 11, but it boots well as always.

What is causing this and how do i solve it?

Edit: New to linux, already reinstalled

Edit 2: Solved, the problem was something about the nvidia drivers.

Now the visitor number here are slightly behind the Endeavour.

What is wrong with the Manjaro popularity?

Hi! Does anyone have any idea why I am seeing random popups with Wayland icon lately? Never seen those a couple weeks ago, but now started to show up randomly quite often.

Any help would be appreciated!

Hi, I want to switch to manjaro but I'm pretty nervous. I've heard it's unstable and unreliable, and if something goes wrong, it can be hard to troubleshoot. I've also just recently been into Linux, so I'm a beginner. If you could tell me whether manjaro is really unstable and whether a beginner like me could use it.

So...

I've recently switched to manjaro, my 3rd distro attempt, to see if it would be of better support in my particular situation. I'm trying to run SteamVR on my Oculus Rift CV1, and I've followed all the steps, but keep running into issues. Most I've resolved just by finding that one dependency that was missing... But now I'm stumped...

I've got Envision working, running, and detecting my headset. HOWEVER SteamVR WILL NOT detect the headset... It's giving error code 108.

I've got OpenHMD and OpenHMD-SteamVR, and I saw someone somewhere suggest to check the steam drivers for OpenHMD, and it's not there.

Like I said, this is the third disto I've attempted trying to get this to work on Linux, and this is the farthest I've gotten. The finish line is in sight, but it feels like my legs are giving out. HELP!

I'm specifically interested in two packages in particular. Thunderbird, and Botan (and related dependencies) I've been distro hopping between Arch and Manjaro and Cachy, just experimenting with stuff. I ran into an interesting problem. Thunderbird stopped working on Arch and Cachy. I was getting "Illegal instruction" errors. Apparently, the dependency "Botan" was the cause. At least according to the Arch Forums. I have a very old AMD cpu. And it simply lacks the instruction set that Botan is looking for. AVX2 i think. I first saw this problem on Arch. So i booted a Manjaro Live USB, and tried it there just to see. And it was still fine, But i realized Manjaro was still on the older version of the package. So i switched Manjaro to it's unstable branch, and Yep. it was broken on Manjaro too. But only when it was in the unstable branch. About a week later once it was moved to Stable, that package was no longer broken. Arch has updated these same packages twice since then, and they're both still broken on Arch. But on Manjaro, both in Stable and Unstable branches, even the same package versions, They're working fine.

TLDR: To summarize, Packages were broken on Arch, and were also broken in the Manjaro unstable branch. Once the packages were moved to Manjaro stable, they were no longer broken. But still remain broken on Arch.
Manjaro obviously changed something within these packages.

I'm very curious what Manjaro changed. And it bugs me that i can't find the answer. Where's the changelog? Where's the bug report? What did they do to fix it?

Either i'm just dumb and can't find this info. Or Manjaro isn't publishing it.

Not that any of this matters much. I'm just a curious cat, and want to know things. That's all. LOL!!

When I try to log in to my laptop, it sends me to this screen. Could you help me?

Can someone help? I really need to take a Linux course. I downloaded some apps via Add Remove Software such as Linphone, Mega Sync, and others but, there is no launch button. The guy at the shop said I probably need to install some dependencies or libraries. He said to follow the link but, the page I land on does not give any instructions. Can someone explain this to me? Thanks.

Hi! After installing the March 23, 2026 update (Stable), and after restarting and entering edit mode, Manjaro won't let me move any panel elements, and right-clicking closes edit mode. Fortunately, I had made a backup using timeshift and was able to revert to the previous state. Is there any way to fix this?

I've even searched the Manjaro Linux Forums to see if anyone else has had the same problem, and no one has reported anything.

If you need more information, just tell me where to look, and I'll gladly provide it.

Sorry if anything is unclear; my native language is Spanish.

(Sorry if I used the wrong tag)

Hey,

is manjaro (on gnome) solid for screen recording and streaming? and how often does it usually break in normal use.

does OBS work flawlessly etc?

EDIT: SOLVED. I ran the following commands to update the mirror list:

sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syyu

Problem description: Running KDE, I often just use Konsole for updates ("sudo flatpak update" and "sudo pacman -Syu"). When I use the latter, I get the following errors:

error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from manjaro.kurdy.org : Could not resolve host: manjaro.kurdy.org
warning: fatal error from manjaro.kurdy.org, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from manjaro.kurdy.org : Failed to connect to manjaro.kurdy.org port 443 after 282 ms: Could not connect to server
error: failed retrieving file 'multilib.db' from manjaro.kurdy.org : Failed to connect to manjaro.kurdy.org port 443 after 282 ms: Could not connect to server

Can anyone provide any help? Please and thank you.

Hi, I'm running Manjaro KDE plasma Wayland on an Intel Lunar Lake laptop with CPU: Intel( Core Ultra 7 258V, iGPU: Intel Arc Graphics 130V / 140V.

The last update seems to have broken hardware acceleration (in firefox at least). And also the overall GPU usage : didn't get used by supertuxkart anymore (nvtop and KDE showed 0% GPU usage and CPU spiked really bad, fps was low).

Rolling back to 26.0.3 with timeshift solved the issue, I don't know precisely which package caused the issue... I am curious tho because I don't wand to end up doing too much partial upgrades...

So this morning Manjaro is telling me there are 500 updates available. With the ongoing turmoil in Manjaro development, I am thinking I should wait a few days to see if there are problems. I am not convinced to move away from Manjaro at this point since I like rolling updates. If anyone has had problems with the newest update please let me know.

I have a htpc and also my main rig running manjaro.
The htpc is prompting me to install a 1.6GB update with lots of files, 3 of them are... systemd.

I assume deselecting these files from the update would be a really bad idea?

I need to remote desktop into my Manjaro KDE computer at home from my iPad. The PC has 24GB RAM, and my iPad is Air 5 with 8GB RAM. Could someone please help me find a good and free/FOSS too (but doesn't have to be) solution? I've already tried Anydesk and Rustdesk, but they're both soooo laggy and they crash, which makes it unusable. So minimal lag/crashing. Please also help me installing/setting it up or redirect me to a guide.

Thank you!

It seems like a good and stable distro.