From what @Pudge told us, there are issues with Plasma and qt6. Perhaps it is resolved by now upstream because Pudge made this decision to quit the ARM project some weeks ago and because I was busy and wanted to make sure this news wasn’t going to be seen as an April’s fool joke, I wrote the announcement later.
To be clear Pudge quit because he felt frustrated, if anyone wants to pick up the work where he left off, you are more than welcome to contact us.
Just read about the news today. Quite sad to hear this, but completely understandable. I’ve used EnOS ARM on and off in the past on my Pi4 as a temporary daily driver, when my main system went down. I guess I took it for granted that in the back of my mind, I’d always have this little distro as something akin to a “break glass in case of emergency” kit that I could flash on my pi4, and get me running as close as I can to my main system.
Thank you to @Pudge and @Sradjoker for their efforts in keeping EnOS ARM running all these years. Again, completely understandable even for outsider that have no experience in developing or maintaining packages. I love ARM, but I don’t see for it to be the future, when as stated above by other posters, it’s already hard to keep up with x86_64, and doing that without any significant support is just pure insanity.
#rant
Also, the fact that there’s still no something like a “universal UEFI bootloader or BIOS” enforcement for ARM. Every companies and their mothers would want to lock the bootloader and prepackage it with their own binary blob, thus keeping the hardware locked to their own system. If ARM laptops start to take off, it isn’t that hard to imagine that whatever we’re dealing with Android phones right now will keep on happening.
Sad (but understandable) to see this go. I run EndeavourOs on an Odroid N2+, which arrived in closet during a desk cleanup action about one year ago, and (also sadly) never left it anymore. I was planning to revive it during summer holiday but I guess maybe now I’ll have to look around for other options. Thanks for the work all of you have put in over the years!
My Pinebook Pro is running Arch. It had the EOS kernel compiled by Pudge (previously, it ran the Manjaro kernel), and 5 days ago I changed this to Arch aarch64. It is working well.
It looks like Arch is going to support ARM. If Arch starts supporting it I wouldn’t be too surprised to see it return to EndeavourOS as well. Personally I am hoping RISC-V eventually replaces x86.