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)?

    • Shareni@programming.dev
      62·
      9 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.

      • D_Air1@lemmy.ml
        1·
        9 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@programming.dev
          1·
          9 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.

      • Hule@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 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.