I’ve distrohopped a LOT in the past few years, trying to figure out what’s right for me. I even have a bit of experience with Gentoo during the COVID lockdowns as a result now, lmao. For whatever reason I keep finding myself on Arch, maybe it’s the AUR or it’s just the distro I have the most experience with and everything else seems frustrating in comparison.
Anyhow, a friend of mine suggested I use EndeavourOS when I got a new computer (Ryzen 7950X / 7900 XT). I remember reading about it back when it launched, after Antergos announced they were retiring. I was still figuring out at that time what distro I wanted to use, so I didn’t check it out back then, and when my friend suggested EOS recently, I figured… why not? I’ve used Antergos before, I’ll give it a shot, and now I’m here.
Arch is a nice distro, but after distro-hopping so is having stuff picked for me, and Archinstall gets quite janky sometimes while I’ve had basically no issues with EOS’ Calamares-based installer. Not to mention, I’ve grown accustomed to some of EndeavourOS’ choices as well - for example, I really like firewalld over UFW now. Little things like that go a long way for the user experience. The only thing I did after an install is add Chaotic-AUR.
This is a terrible idea, in my opinion. If you spend a few minutes considering the security implications of automating the building of packages that are submitted by… well, pretty much anyone, you will probably come to that conclusion, too.
Gotcha. I am aware of the risks with using a third-party repo, used Chaotic beforehand during my Arch days, but I’ll keep this in mind!
Edit: Switched to regular AUR, but if there’s any particularly big package I might have to go for a third-party repo, if there’s no -bin or -appimage package already. (Some kernels might come under here)
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