No one is very happy about losing their particular version of the tools to build an initramfs—if only because of familiarity—but a standardized solution is something whose time has come.
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We get a lot of requests for having an unencrypted initramfs due to the benefits it provides. We knew some people wouldn’t like this which is why we provide the option for the user to choose. If you choose grub it works the same as before.
I am not sure exactly what you are referring to here. We are still using systemd as the init system as always and we haven’t changed the toolchain.
If you are referring to dracut, it is much more widely used and more broadly supported than mkinitcpio.
That being said, if someone prefers mkinitcpio, it is easy to switch over to it.
just saw this too it only is only missing when choose to replace partition not when choosing alongside.
But you can still use manual partition to create such a setup.
We oversaw this one on testing sadly…
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Congratulations and thank you to everyone involved in this project!
I am new to Endeavour and loving it so far. Never thought I would be using an Arch-based distro, but here I am. The transition to pacman and yay from apt commands was easier than expected.
The wiki is very helpful and friendly in the way it’s presented.
I love the variety of languages represented in the forum.
I have tried at least half a dozen distros over the past few months, and in the case of Endeavour Cassini xfce4, this is the first time that I did not change the wallpaper right away after installation. (But I do have some nice landscapes from Thailand that I will probably use eventually.)
As a hobbyist musician, it’s great that EOS comes with pipewire and wireplumber set up by default, and that muse-hub-bin and MuseScore 4 were available within a day after the official release!
As a hobbyist digital artist, it’s great that new releases of Krita, GIMP, and Blender become available so soon after their releases, without having to use AppImages or whatever.
Thank you!
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The newness of packages in EnOS is due to the upstream Arch package distribution.
Sometimes a clear advantage.
In some (rare) cases it can lead to a world of trouble, like the past issue with the grub package…
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Thank you! A very good point and I hope I remember to check the Arch news whenever it looks like fundamental stuff is about to get updated.
Speaking of grub:
I’ve been on Endeavour for about a week, and reinstalled using the Cassini ISO today because I’m switching my hard drives around anyway.
Bravely took a chance on systemd-boot for the first time, and it just worked – including having an entry for Windows 10 on the other drive.
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Hmm…
EndeavourOS Cassini 22.12 is a maintenance version for Artemis, so there are no big changes other than package updates and bug fixes in this release.
Making a big wave!
Hurray to all EnOS maintainers and developers!
May HMS-Endeavour sail on… forever! 
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Show me a review with no such false information 
…and I show you mine! 
Portuguese joins the launch party here: A Cassini, repleta de novas funcionalidades, chegou
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Hmm, I’ve always been a fan of mkinitcpio and GRUB, before that I didn’t have much objection to Cnchi. I’m old-fashioned sometimes 
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Congratulations on the new edition, based on the description, it will be very impressive. 
Will systemd-boot be the default even after updating existing EndeavorOS, or will it be optional?
That is a change to the installer. Existing installations will not be impacted.
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exactly, same as always: We do release only the installer, the system is yours!
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So, I am new to Snapper since I just switched over from Timeshift. If I do a fresh install with the new ISO does this mean the snapshots will not work like they previously did? As in booting into snapshot from Grub and recovering the system?
You can choose grub as an option during the
install if you want to boot off snapshots.