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Advice on switching from Kubuntu to EndeavourOS? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

EOS uses standard pacman and the kernel is the standard Arch package. It is identical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Great to hear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months 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.