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Advice on switching from Kubuntu to EndeavourOS? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I tested it a bit in a VM to get familiar with pacman and yay. Latest KDE Plasma 6 and more snaps in Ubuntu's future are the main reasons I want to switch.

As I don't use a separate home partition, I have an extra drive with BackInTime home dir backups and virtnbdbackup snapshots.

Is EndeavourOS stable enough for everyday use and would restoring home with BackInTime just work (as root user)?

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Regular Endeavor users can chime in, but it wasn't super "stable" over the past couple years, but I think mostly because it's easy to misconfigure and cause conflicts. It's meant to be highly configurable and variable without a lot of guardrails (I know they were adding most automation awhile back). If you know how to diagnose and fix basic issues that come along with that, I'm sure you'll be fine.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I’ve been using it for about 4/5 months and it’s been rock solid for me.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I used it for over a year:

    • idk how many times it failed to boot after an update

    • the update script just died one day and I had to remember to manually mkinitcpio or it would fail to boot

    • it would crash or freeze occasionally

    PS

    The oldest woman smoked until she was like 110, that doesn't mean smoking isn't bad for your health.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm using endeavourOS too, I didn't even know there was an update script. We don't all just use pacman?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't know the specifics, but when you -Syu and there's a kernel update, at the end of the update it will run some additional commands. I'm pretty sure that's normal pacman behaviour, but I haven't used vanilla Arch in a while. At that point mkinitcpio would fail silently, I couldn't boot afterwards, and there were no warnings about it. Running the command manually would work without an issue and allow me to boot again.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Great to hear.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    1.5 years using it on main laptop, work and leisure (I don't game).

    Sometimes, wifi stopped working after an update. Restarting a second time fixed it. Broadcom..

    I've set up snapshots, but I only used them once.

    Other than that, it ran nicely. Fresh versions of everything, snappy with zen kernel.. Haven't really tinkered with it. I just used it as is.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Ok, thanks. I already found the tool nvidia-all, which allows me to use old driver 535 until the big wayland regression is fixed (hopefully soon). With that out the way, switching the rest of my software to Arch should be easy.

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