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thank you again for being so considerate about all this and since you offer your help.. so, i see that rebasing is a thing, does that simply mean it changes the entire system? is it just the immutable part? if i wanna install a certain DE for one reason or another..does that count as part of the system?
apologies for these questions i just never used an immutable distro before
As I said earlier, there's now a clear distinction between "the OS base" (stuff like your UI and the whole construct that provides a working PC, which you shouldn't touch or worry about) and "your stuff" (programs you installed yourself, cat pictures, and so on).
They are, opposed to traditional distros, decoupled now.
And "rebasing" means just that: you swap out "the OS"-part, while keeping your cat pictures, Spotify and OBS.
On a normal distro, you basically have to reinstall the whole OS, since switching from Gnome to KDE for example messes with many many dependencies, and in the best case, only makes KDE now more unstable and in general messy.
If you are experienced, you can do it relatively easy, but the times I did, it felt really really dirty...
On Silverblue for example, you have a Gnome and a KDE spin. And if you rebase, you now switched to the KDE version, just like you would by reinstalling the whole OS and then copying your files.
The cool thing now is, the KDE base is just one of many potential bases, especially if you look at uBlue.
There are hundreds of community deviations, like a "Vanilla" Silverblue with pre-installed Nvidia-drivers, which are tied to the base OS, so they should be less likely to break because you use the same image as thousands of other people. Or a special "gaming-console"-image, which is a clone of SteamOS with many gaming related tweaks.
P.S.: I don't wanna be rude, but why did you choose EndeavorOS? Was it because of the good looking desktop theme?
You don't seem to be experienced enough to use Arch in my eyes. I wouldn't be too if I'm honest.
You know that you can just theme KDE or other DEs exactly like EOS with one click, right?