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)?
I’ve been using it for about 4/5 months and it’s been rock solid for me.
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
mkinitcpioor it would fail to bootit 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.
I’m using endeavourOS too, I didn’t even know there was an update script. We don’t all just use pacman?
I don’t know the specifics, but when you
-Syuand 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 pointmkinitcpiowould 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.EOS uses standard pacman and the kernel is the standard Arch package. It is identical.
Great to hear.
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.