Hopefully this kind of post isn’t too tired, but I figure it’s my turn:
Finally decided to, after absolutely refusing to upgrade to 11, make the jump from Win10 to Linux! Been hopping around distros a bit and landed on EndeavourOS last night and I’m really enjoying it so far.
It’s definitely tinkery and took me like 2 hours just to get my push to talk working in Discord (mostly due to my own lack of knowledge), but I love the level of control of everything you have (was on Pop!_OS before 🤮, edit: no hate, just wasn’t for me!)
There’s definitely never been a better time to switch and I’m very excited for when I inevitably brick my shit and come back here for help, so thanks in advance everyone! :)
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).
Glad you are enjoying Arch. I agree, it is no longer hard to install.
Do you have an example of something in the Arch wiki that does not apply to EOS?
I mean, I guess most people self-installing Arch are not choosing Dracut (though you could and the Arch wiki covers it). I cannot really think of anything else though.
This is basically true. EOS is the closest to vanilla Arch that just runs a gui live with Calamares.
The only difference is the bundled dependencies and packages. EOS sets a lot of those for you out of the gate. That’s what I meant about cross referencing. Sometimes I had to look and see what dependency/library EOS used and then pull it up in the wiki.
In base Arch you make some of those choices yourself, so you can just start at the top of the wiki page instead browsing to where EOS left things.
It’s not a negative thing. I’m just learning from the ground up on the wiki instead of jumping into the middle of things. For example, I had to go through and pick which bluetooth and sound packages I wanted and EOS has them sorted out for you. Small things like that.