Manjaro and Drivers — One Command, Most Cases
A short overview to the Mhwd tool, the kernel selection panel, and the Arch heritage that powers the rest.
Mhwd in One Paragraph
Manjaro Hardware Detection (Mhwd) is the tool that picks drivers for you. It scans the system, lists matching driver packages, and installs them with a single command. The Settings Manager exposes the same logic in a friendly window.
For most users, running Mhwd once at install time is the entire driver story. For graphics, you can switch between open-source and proprietary stacks any time without reinstalling.
The Kernel Selection Panel
Manjaro lets you install multiple kernels side by side. The Settings Manager has a panel that lists current and previous releases, marks which one boots by default, and lets you remove old ones cleanly. This is unusual and very useful when a kernel update breaks a driver.
You can keep an older known-good kernel installed as a fallback, switch to it from the bootloader if needed, and continue working until the new kernel is patched.
Arch Heritage in Practice
Underneath, Manjaro is Arch — the Arch Wiki applies to most issues and the Aur is available for unusual packages. The difference is that Manjaro buffers the rolling updates by a week or two, so most rough edges are smoothed before they reach you.
For Dkms modules from Aur, the same rebuild-on-kernel-update behaviour applies as on plain Arch.
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