Do I need to constantly maintain EndeavourOS?

[winnyace]

Welcome to the forum and to EndeavourOS!

Well, sadly, EndeavourOS is based on Arch, which can be high maintenance distribution if you go nuts and do a lot of weird stuff. If you just want to set it up and forget about it, you can do that relatively well.

How to run a stress-free EndeavourOS

I have spent a lot of time over the last 8 years helping people fix their broken systems and seeing people constantly describe how much trouble it is to keep their Arch-based systems running. Meanwhile, even though I run many systems with different configs, I never actually have these problems myself.1 I have helped people with so many obscure issues that if I ever did have issues with systems failing after an update I could fix them myself without too much trouble in most cases. However, I d…

This is a thread that should be a must-read, in my opinion, regarding running EndeavourOS, more or less, trouble-free. Obviously, things won’t always be sunshine and rainbows, so be prepared for anything, but following the advice here reduced a lot of issues I personally had with Endeavour. Remember a few key points:

• set up btrfs snapshots (here’s the guide I personally used. I’m sure it is outdated, but it works still)
• update once a month
• don’t install things you don’t absolutely need
• set up sysrq in case the fickle finger of fate decides to hand you a bad time ([Tip] Enable Magic SysRq Key (REISUB))

So, to answer to your question, I think the answer is no, you don’t need to constantly maintain the OS to use it, but at the same time, be prepared for anything since this is a rolling release.