Bye Manjaro. It's been real...

So I know the past few years have brought a lot of Manjaro hate, but I proudly plodded on, choosing to ignore the rhetoric, given my history of more than 10 years of continuous use. My primary install topped out at over 7 years, despite the drive itself moving between 3 different laptops, and being cloned/moved via rsync from an HDD to an mSATA drive, then an SSD, then a 256GB NVME, before finally settling on my current 512GB NVME, where it stayed until about a month ago when I decided to take a swing at Artix Linux. Despite moving my main install, I kept Manjaro along silently, but reliably on an oldr laptop used primarily for loca Plex streaming and Syncthing. My relationship with Manjaro officially ended 2 days ago, when I logged on via ssh, ran my usual remote update, then realized my pings were failing. Since that laptop install had been running for quite a while, I actually had the 5.10 LTS kernel running. It turns out that Manjaro decided to change the meta package name for the LTS kernel, which triggered a version update for my kernel, but they simply failed to trigger the usual initramfs regeneration and grub update that is standard after a kernel update via any typical package manager.

While my Manjaro installs have all run for years without need for major intervention, I have honestly ignored a few boneheaded decisions like this in the past, but this experience made me realize that I had chosen to ignore the warning signs for a bit too long, so after a decade-long relationship, Manjaro officially no longer occupies a machine in my house. I intend to use the next few months migrating any other family members outside of my house, but decided to spend a few minutes coining this post to rant on the internet first.