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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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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Arch is not stable, and therefore neither is endeavour. That doesn’t mean you can’t use it, but expect that it will break

LOL what? I had more trouble with Debian updates than I do with Endeavour. You make it sound like you should keep a bucket of water handy before you even boot it up.

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

    In the month or so it's been on my laptop, it's been stable as in reliable but it's definitely not stable in the more traditional sense - unchanging.

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

    Fair. With the amount of updates you should have received in a month, how could it be unchanged? In a "ship of Theseus" sense, is it at all the same as when you installed it? 🧐

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

    Keep using it and you'll fail to boot after an update, it's just a matter of time. I've had it happen even on devices I exclusively used for browsing and playing videos.

    You make it sound like you should keep a bucket of water handy before you even boot it up.

    No, but you should keep an arch thumb drive handy whenever you're updating. You never know when the installation script will give up, or GRUB release a faulty update.

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

    Well, for one thing I don't use GRUB, so there's one obstacle off the list.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    So I guess due to hubris my latest system update ran the yay cache to the limit of my storage capacity and I couldn't reboot into a graphical environment. I suspect it was the electron update, BTW.

    So do I need that rescue USB? Of course not. In systemd-boot, press e, end key, space and 1 and you're booted into a command line environment.

    paccache -ruk0 nukes the pacman cache to be on the safe side

    yay -Scc to clear the yay cache completely

    And you're off to the races again.

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