Plasma doesn't just work on any distro? Does it have specific requirements?

And the zsh equivalent Oh My Zsh

I'm a big fan of fish personally.

This will send me down another 4h rabbit hole today, thanks 😬

In case you're interested I've tried out a few things and kinda settled on fish, but will still use bash for scripting.

timeshift from the AUR, grub-btrfs from the repos to be able to boot right into snapshots.

Thanks for the advice. I'll definitely check it out. I've killed my Raspberry Pi twice due to bash typos, so with this being my main system I want to be extra careful.

If you use a computer, make regular backups.

Endeavor is fantastic. For all the time I ran it, I never had any of the issues that people say Arch is riddled with: updates irreparably mucking up your system, packages making a mess of things, the AUR being unstable and dangerous. I've found that most of these claims come from people who are against the way Arch does things and have never actually tried it for any extensive amount of time.

You do need to be mindful of updates being pushed to your system (read the newsletters, they will tell you if anything in the update is broken and how to fix it) and have the technical know-how of how to fix those things when they do happen... And they will happen. That's any rolling release, though.

Personally I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for gaming, it was a breeze to set up and continues to be a breeze to work with. I love every second of it. But EndeavorOS is a very close second for me.

heard Garuda is good for gaming, it's Arch based too

Idk much about other distros, but maybe try Pop OS first and see if you like it.

As I mentioned I've ran into really weird issues with steam because of some missing dependencies that are mentioned on page 49 of google search results.

Fair point. For me using a distro dedicated to making Arch accessible just is more attractive than having an installer and being on my own afterwards.

But yeah, EndeavourOS is pretty much just an installer with purple space theming.

As someone who used both, endeavourOS gives you a good idea what a system should look like, it's not extremely overdone.

I did switch to Arch, just because i think that i don't need quite as much.

If i would have only tried Arch i would have spent so much time figuring out what's possible and what i want.

There is a place for it, not everyone wants to take so much time figuring things out and that's fine by me.

You can export as .docx too so it's a snap for windows users.

A major difference is Manjaro has its own repos which has a tendency to break AUR packages, while EndeavourOS uses the normal Arch repos. Endeavour is pretty much just pre-configured Arch so it bypasses a lot of the issues with security and stability that Manhjaro suffers from.

IMO I still think people should just use vanilla Arch so they can customize everything to the fullest but EndeavourOS is a decent option.

It is Manjaro without the break.

More like purple Arch, but you don’t have to mess with your date/time because the certificates don’t break, and you can install stuff from the AUR without worrying about breaking your system.

I've seen it described as an arch gui installer, I'm not knowledgeable enough to confirm nor deny that

In case it helps: At install time I created a swap partition the same size as my RAM and a Btrfs root partition. Then after install I ran
"yay -S snapper-support btrfs-assistant btrfmaintenance"

Then after install I enabled the maintenance scripts with defaults in the btrfs-assistant GUI and that was it. It takes snapshots when installing stuff and I can do a roolback to a snapshot in btrfs-assistant GUI or Cli (requires an immediate reboot).

One snag: If you installed it with Grub instead of systemd-boot it will show booteable snapshots in Grub but I don't know how roll back permanently if I've booted into one as it uses some sort of overlayfs. So I don't use this feature.

I wish EOS did all this as an install option though.