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)?

  • @[email protected]
    7•7 months ago

    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.

      • @Shareni
        4•7 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
          1•7 months ago

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

          • @Shareni
            1•7 months ago

            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.

            • @LeFantome
              1•7 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
          2•7 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.

    • Berny23OP
      4•7 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
        3•7 months ago

        Also you don’t need that on arch /endevour. There are old nvidia drivers on the aur (I’m in the same situation than you and use those)