I haven’t had freezes with 5.9 for a couple of months and that is a miracle.
But since the new 5.10 arrived I’m unable to boot.
Boots into a black screen.
Darn.
I just hope nvidia-390xx-dkmsAUR will get patched to work with Linux 5.10 before it replaces the current LTS.
But I can always just throw away that piece of 
card. It’s a pity, because there’s nothing wrong with it, it serves my needs well, and there is already too much electronic waste out there, harming the frogs. 
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Just have read that Manjaro also dropped “legacy” drivers 
This is such a joke…What a bunch of green corporatists…they’ll never open-source 
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Yeah. nobody upstream is maintaining it, so Manjaro can’t either.
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That nobody is a really busy maintainer lately 
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sooner of later 390xx goes out thats mostly works.
In case of emergency we can still use Nivea, äh Nouveau 
Yeah…But it sucks so much (obviously not a punch for devs there, it’s really hard to reverse engineer closed drivers), probably worse than no dedicated card at that point 
I tried Nivea, my computer crashes every 5-10 minutes.
I’ll probably just install some ancient Debian or something on that computer…
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Maybe it doesn’t work on newer cards acceptable but according to my experience it works very well with older cards. I used to run my GTX 465 for quite some time with Nouveau. Not falling too far behind proprietary driver as long as you don’t want Vulkan/Proton or similar stuff for playing e. g. Cyberpunk
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I have GeForce GTX 550 Ti. Vulcan? What is Vulcan?
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Well i mean it’s fine for…Displaying stuff, but come on - it’s serious GPUs we’re talking about. Of course everyone wants to game on them and edit video etc 
For Cyberpunk you won’t notice difference though
It plays videos fine, Firefox, GIMP and Inkscape work fine on it, and KDE Plasma runs smooth on it. That’s what I use it for. On Noveau it just crashes, though.
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You can do serious video editing with Nouveau. I’ve done that a lot of times. Gaming is a different story. But that’s not what comes to my mind when talking about serious usage.
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i liked nouveau as always
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Just want to say thanks to @jonathon (and loqs, of course) for saving the day yet again! nvidia-390xx-dkmsAUR works fine with the latest linux and linux-lts kernels.
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Using linux-lts
I had problems with many 5.10 kernels, beginning with 5.10.3 which crashed my nearly four years Antergos-Arch made after a very and long uneventful life. A black screen, a failed rescue and two weeks of hell.
Then a short story of failed distros for black screens or TTY screens: Endeavouros (several attempts), Arcolinux (one attempt).
Finally, I decided that I had enough of 5.10. and switched to linux-lts (5.4. something). I installed it on Arco-cinnamon because of another failed attempt to switch xfce to cinnamon with Endeavouros.
Linux-lts provides an advanced option that can help you if you get a black screen. I think it is a sensible move till the situation stabilizes itself on the Arch front.
I note that, to this day, Manjaro is still using 5.9.
linux-lts (and its headers) requires special packages for optimus-manager and nvidia. The same for virtualbox. But, after such a difficult month of January, I think it is a worthy price to pay. I shall later switch to the newt LTS while keeping the other advantages of the rolling distro.
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My observation (so far) seems to be that the newer (and simpler) your hardware, the better an idea it is to run the latest kernel. The converse also seems to be true! After, say, 3 years on your hardware - it seems simpler to go with an lts kernel if you’re not into troubleshooting as a sport…
I arrived - painfully - at the same conclusion and I decided to use a linux-lts on my 2017 laptop. When it was new, I had to wait 16 months a firmware update (Lenovo) to get wifi working…
The other conclusion is that it’s safer to keep several OS on your computer in case of a software crash. I had only one Linux OS and VMs (because I had a small SSD and I had scrapped Windows). This time, I bought a bigger SSD, left Windows 10, set up Arcolinux Cinnamon as main OS and Manjaro as a backup (with also a linux-lts). Definitely it looks sturdier. 
Manjaro works well as a backup. Why not as a main OS? Some minor but irritating glitches (no sleep, some AUR packages not working, my VPN out of touch) convinced me of doing this way.
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