Right, I wanted to add that the journalist will be fine if they immediately update all packages but OTOH this is not what Windows users usually do.

Have you tried updating everything using "sudo pacman -Syu" ?

I just had to update my CachyOS install last night, as some software I wanted to install was just getting 404 responses from the repos. Turns out they don't keep round old packages? I dunno, but the update command above fixed it.

No, I didn't, after the third freeze and reboot I just thought "why am I wasting my time on this crap?", wiped it and installed regular Arch Linux instead. That one was stable out of the box.

I also recently got my FD, also switching to Linux, also chose CachyOS.

Worked great for a day or two but now updates aren't working because of some signing issue or something :|

Maybe I should switch to Fedora or Bazzite before getting too setup...