I personally would just do a fresh install and start new. If you have Nvidia just use the Nvidia option in the menu to install. I don’t know what AUR problems you have had on Manjaro but the ones i am using have no issues. I run KDE and i don’t try to change every thing. It’s better that you don’t. Use what works. Make small changes to KDE settings. If they work then you can stick with them. If not don’t use them then. I have no issues on KDE. Everything works flawlessly.
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There’s just something fishy about this thread. I can’t really put my hand on it yet. I’ll keep watching.
But if you want the Manjaro experience, just keep using it. You seem like you want to go thru a lot of work, and you’d have probably reinstalled and almost would have been done configuring things by now if you had just went and done it originally.
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I’ve been using EOS for a month already in my new PC, and everything is going fine with some minor problems that I’ll post later.
So I’m here to answer my own questions:
- Is it enough to just copy the home folder?. If not, what else is needed?. I also want to keep the grub configurations, is that possible?. Do I have to keep something else in mind?.
- Yes, it’s enough, but it’s better to select one by one the configurations you need and if you copy them in the right place everything will just work, this “file management” thing is something XD. Nothing else to keep in mind really, just be careful with symlinks if there are some.
- How do I reinstall all packages automatically so I don’t have to go one by one? Also if possible skipping those packages that are not installed explicitly and the dependencies of those same packages, because some of them may be different in EndeavourOS. Basically I want to backup the programs that I installed manually.
- Don’t, just check your applications menu and reinstall what you need, dependencies will manage themselves, and if you need some weird package to make something work just google what you need and someone will tell you the package that does so. Also pacman -Qet is useful for knowing what you installed manually in the previous system.
- The new system won’t have a Nvidia GPU, but the old one does, so what do I have to do in order to remove the drivers configurations?.
- Reinstall from scratch and just don’t copy the nvidia files in the home folder. Or copy them, they won’t be a problem really.
About EOS:
- Do EndeavourOS has problems with multiple kernel versions? I mean, I like to have 2 or 3 older kernels apart from the one I usually use, and in Manjaro those old ones are shown in the grub menu and I can boot into them when I want, also Manjaro comes with a management tool to remove or install kernels and new ones are added to the grub menu. Do EndeavourOS has something like this?.
- AKM is awesome, I just wish I could install older lts kernels from there.
- How does EndeavourOS work with multiple DEs? I like to have KDE and XFCE, will something break? In Manjaro everything works fine more or less.
- I didn’t try this yet and don’t plan to do so. One DE is enough and I don’t want weird bugs with icon themes and duplicated applications.
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