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

submitted 10 months 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 I am not a huge fan of how certain packages on apt are a few years old and outdated.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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use EndeavourOS and OpenSuse tumbleweed myself, and I'd caution you about using endeavour. It's a great OS that I personally love but there will be manual interventions you'll have to keep track of, and implement. Maybe twice yearly. Like the grub issue, or the repo migration for two recent examples.

OpenSuse tumbleweed however is a rolling release distro that's more stable, takes little in the way of manual interventions, and is quite sleek out of the box. I use it as a work partition for freelance dev work personally.

I love endeavour, but it can take some more babysitting than other distros as it's essentially just a really good graphical arch installer

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do you separate Dev/work partition? Any tool or just simple partitioning?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Apologies if I'm a bit ramble-y, I've recently caught covid.

Just a few simple partitions. I have one for EndeavorOS, one for Tumbleweed, and a third intermediary that I auto mount on both. That one houses a few applications that both need access to, I just added a bin folder before adding it to the path on both. As long as nothing there is system critical it'll be fine

You definitly could get away with just two partitions though if you just want stability, and auto mount your partitions onto each other for ease of file transfer of you want.

it's not really different than duel booting windows, and works quite well

I also have a fourth 70gb partition for a macOS virtual machine as that's much quicker than a qcow file but that's a bit much, to be fair