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I know my opinion will not be popular there but that's what I love about Manjaro: they won't rush the upgrade. I can wait for a couple of months, no worries.
Arch Linux waited for 6.0.1. Besides, you don't have to upgrade if you don't want.
(I did like Manjaro's community though. They cool)
Can you freeze kde version while keeping the rest up-to-date? (Genuine question, I assumed that wasn't possible)
Technically yes, but you'll probably break your system because it's a lot of work to keep track of which packages depend on what manually.
The best way to do this would use some sort of immutable distro with a frozen KDE version instead
Same here! Been using manjaro for more than 5 years by now on all my dev machines and I really like not being overrun by updates.
Once you form the habit of checking latest "stable update" forum thread (the eqivalent of checking the arch frontpage before an upgrade) and check for potential "manual interventions" (if any), then it gives you suprisingly good stability. But it's still rolling release and "pretty current".
And stability simply becomes more of a factor once your metaphorical "plate" becomes choke full and the last thing you want from your underlying OS is to act up on its own due to an update.