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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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)?

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[-] Shareni@programming.dev 4 points 8 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 points 8 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 points 8 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.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

EOS uses standard pacman and the kernel is the standard Arch package. It is identical.

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