# Fresh EndeavourOS user looking for app recommendations & "game changers"! **URL:** \ **Category:** Newbie\ **Created:** [October 17, 2026, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/fresh-endeavouros-user-looking-for-app-recommendations-game-changers/81991 "2026-10-17T10:39:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![thefrog](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/thefrog/32/114250_2.png) [@thefrog](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/thefrog)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/fresh-endeavouros-user-looking-for-app-recommendations-game-changers/81991/2 "2026-10-17T10:51:25Z")
Welcome to the community. There are something’s I do suggest getting yourself familiar with. First keep your system running smoothly. > [@How to run a stress-free EndeavourOS](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/how-to-run-a-stress-free-endeavouros/49769): > > 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… > [@A Complete Idiot's Guide To Endeavour OS Maintenance / Update / Upgrade](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/a-complete-idiots-guide-to-endeavour-os-maintenance-update-upgrade/25184): > > I’m a complete idiot - so here’s my guide for you! It has been asked a lot, and fairly frequently recently it seems, especially by new Endeavour/new to Linux users. It was recently asked that I post how I update - so here it is. “How do I maintain / update / upgrade my system?!? Help!!” This is my maintenance plan. I have been using the same install for almost 2 years now without any major issue. I’m VERY aware there’s more than one way to do this. And most importantly - Many of these c… > [@Simple EndeavourOS Maintenance “Cheat Sheet”](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/simple-endeavouros-maintenance-cheat-sheet/72048): > > A year ago I made a [“Cheat Sheet”](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/a-complete-idiots-guide-to-endeavour-os-maintenance-update-upgrade/25184/131) for my personal EOS maintenance regimen heavily based on [A Complete Idiot's Guide To Endeavour OS Maintenance / Update / Upgrade](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/a-complete-idiots-guide-to-endeavour-os-maintenance-update-upgrade/25184) by @anon63071375. I’ve since modified my cheat sheet slightly for my own use case. Perhaps you’ll find it useful. EndeavourOS Maintenance “Cheat Sheet” [Frequency: Every 4-6 weeks, or user discretion] UPDATE SYSTEM: yay If you’ve enabled [chaotic-AUR](https://aur.chaotic.cx/), make sure to install rate-mirrors-bin: yay -S rate-mirrors-bin UPDATE ARCH MIRRO… There is also Our wiki and the Arch Wiki which will be super helpful so make sure to bookmark both as well > **[Discovery](https://discovery.endeavouros.com/)** > > The EndeavourOS wiki — installation, hardware, and everything after. > **[ArchWiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page)** > [@SETAWHURCIE](#): > > - **Privacy/security utilities** you highly recommend you should probably read this [thread](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/archcanary-a-layered-security-scanner-for-arch-based-linux/80837) and install archcanary to help assist you with stuff from the AUR. Learn to read PKGBUILDS. Its fairly simple and can save lots of headaches later. > [@SETAWHURCIE](#): > > - **That ONE app** which you consider an absolute **“game changer”** on an Arch-based system pacman --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/fresh-endeavouros-user-looking-for-app-recommendations-game-changers/81991)._