I've been using EndeavourOS for awhile now and it's really good. Everything more or less just works.
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Yea im about to switch myself. Been looking at suggestions and stuff, probably gonna start with Mint myself.
Many different sources advise putting it on a flashdrive first and loading from there, to start. Make sure I like it.
But the end goal, eventually, would be to remove windows from the comp entirely, right? Eventually installing my chosen distro as the OS on the computer itself? Does that sound about right?
EndeavourOS is great. It's as bare as you can get without opting for straight Arch. I bit the bullet on vanilla Arch a couple weeks ago, though, and am amazed at how easy it is to set up now.
Bonus: I can follow the Arch Wiki word for word without having to cross check things.
But I loved my time with EOS. I would probably still be using it if I hadn't decided to fuck around with topgrade while having no idea what I was doing. The lesson of the day was just update normally... its built in for a reason.
Edit: Look up Timeshift and ALWAYS back up personal files to external. There's a reason Arch is notorious for being unstable. Sometimes just an update can bork everything (still very rare, though).
Don't hate on pop. They have done nothing wrong, at most it didnt sit you right
Absolutely agree, edited post. Was meant as a joke, clearly wasn't in good taste and I apologize. It's pretty solid, just not for me.
I appreciate the edit ๐
I've been hopping between different distros since 2023, but every time I come back to EndeavourOS, this distro seems to work the best for me, haven't had any problems with this distro.
EndeavourOS club! Gorgeous blend between granular control and reasonably configured initial guardrails for a willing-to-learn new Arch user.
I played around with other distros too, before settling into this one. Havenโt looked back after 2-3 years of use so far.
That's amazing! Why shit on Pop!_OS though? I've always liked it. I think it's definitely more stable than Arch in the long term
Honestly, it seems really stable and works great, I just hate how...hand holdy it felt for me personally. I think the emoji was a little over the top. My apologies, haha. It's totally fine for what it is, and if it works for you, that's fantastic!
Yeah, I don't love the aesthetic of Pop OS out of the box but with a minimal set of GNOME extensions I really like it. Which actually, is the case for me on vanilla GNOME too.
I'd like to be an Arch person, but on the only device I've used it on, I've had some major breakages happen a couple of times. Took months for the issues to get resolved. Which honestly, as hard as software is, let alone OSes, is a great track record. Most teams could only keep stability specifically with these long/major release schedules like everyone else essentially does it.
Right now, I still have Windows as dual boot in case things go sideways or I run into road blocks with work, but my plan is to move all of that to a VM in the near future (and ideally an actual work supplied machine with a KVM eventually). At that point, I could see myself falling back onto something like Pop!_OS as a stable side install if/when my main OS is having issues and I just want to play a game and not bash my head against a console for 5 hours.
Sorry to be so seemingly unfair to Pop OS, what it does it does do quite well, just not for me as a main driver.
Gotcha. I don't think you are being unfair.
yeah; I also use Pop!_OS and like it. I'm curious about the reasoning here
I don't think I've really seen it hated on much
The only thing I don't like about it is being behind on gnome since their DE is a forked older version of gnome afaik. Especially for recent gnome extensions, it's not always the most amenable. But mostly even on that front it's workable
Arch is plenty stable
I think it's very stable for what it is. But I still had it break remote desktop, wifi functionality, and something about graphics that caused weird glitches in Firefox. These issues all took months to fix, each. For most tech savvy people it's probably stable enough but for the less common hardware, the only reason I could keep using and updating it was by leveraging timeshift. I would update everything, test if my issue was solved, see it still present then rollback. I did that process dozens of times.
I have never had anything in Arch take months to fix. One tip I would have is to use both the latest kernel and an LTS. If something โbreaksโ with a kernel module, just boot into LTS and it is probably fine there. I also had an issue with WiFi for about a week but a quick reboot into LTS and I was good to go immediately. When I tried the latest kernel two weeks later, it had been fixed there. Something similar happened with my FaceTimeHD camera. Same solution.
Hmm, I'm not aware of those tracks or how they work. I only really was able to install arch from a specific guide because the device is a raspberry pi 5
Welcome to your GNU/Linux jounery.
Before you distro hop again, take your time exploring the os and terminal it will make installing the real arch linux easier.
EndeavourOS is the real Arch, with some additional repos and some sensible defaults.
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No hoping needed anymore once you landed on a Arch base!
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Welcome aboard, I also first started with beginners friendly distro (around 1 years ago), Fedora is my first ever distro then I started distro hopping and landed on vanilla Arch, that's what I'm stick with until now
helpful if you want to install arch without endeavor โ Archfi and Archdi - Two bash scripts for Arch Linux Installation by OldTechBloke
somebody on lemmy regularly posted videos of OldTechBloke while they're archiving the channel on peertube.
Interesting. I made the equivalent of this for installing Arch on raspberry pi 5. Maybe I should make them public.
DistroTube has a similar project going as well, DTOS. I'm not sure if it's actually up and available but it looks promising for a similar target audience. https://youtu.be/FA__ScVhGQA
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