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What is your honest opinion on EndeavourOS? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I made a post a few days ago asking your opinion on Manjaro and it was very mixed, with a slightly negative overall opinion. I heard some recommend EndeavourOS instead and did some online research and it seems to be pretty solid and not have the repository problem that Manjaro has.

Just for context I am a Linux noob and have only used Mint for about the past six months. While I don't have any major complaints, I am looking to explore more distros and the Arch repository with its rolling releases. I am not a huge fan of how certain packages on apt are a few years old and outdated. However, I also don't have the time to be always configuring my OS and just want something that works well out of the box.

Is EndeavourOS a solid choice?

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[–] LeFantome 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

EndevourOS is excellent. It has been very stable for me. It is easy to install. Your problem will not be out of date packages for sure.

That said:

there is no graphical package management. You will need to use command line ( yay / pacman ) or TUI ( pacseek ) tools.
there are A LOT of package updates and you will want to stay current with them. I update my packages multiple times per week.

If either of those things bother you, they may be a problem.

Updating packages is reliable and painless but a chore you need to get in the habit of doing. I suspect you would get more problems if you let it go too long. On the upside, as it is a rolling release, you never have an “upgrade” to go through.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there is no graphical package management.

You can use yay to install either pamac-aur or octopi from the AUR and that will give graphical package management. Yeah it isn't provided out of the box, but its a quick one-liner to set it up so it isn't too bad IMHO.

[–] LeFantome 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have had pamac cause problems. I do not use it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should look into Octopi then. It uses pacman for all its operations.

[–] LeFantome 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I completely forgot Octopi existed. I should give it a shot. Can it work with the AUR though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep! It can leverage paru, yay, etc. for the AUR.