Have been a mint user for over 10 years and never thought I would have switched my main os for anything else. Tested arch multiple times (and arch based distros) but all them required hours of tweaking and up keep that I wasn’t interested in for my daily system. Last thing I need is to wake up and be forced to fix some random error/mistake for hours at a time so I kept searching.
Then by chance I came across EndevourOS while browsing the vr heatsets on the gamingonlinux website and began testing everything on a vb image. Perfection.
Nothing against mint, i still love it, but I can recognize a superior os and updated package base when I see it.
My daily reaction when booting up my endeavourOS powered mate edition:
Same here, been using Mint since before Cinnamon was developed. Nothing against Mint and I still recommend it for those new to Linux but EndeavourOS impressed me enough to take over as my daily driver OS. That being said, I do run EndeavourOS with the Cinnamon desktop
Still using Mint as a media server. But… EnOS is MY daily driver. Been using it for over 2 months now.
Had the same reaction as you did when I first booted it up!
Welcome here! Also moved from Debian based distros to rolling release, first Manjaro then eos. Eos has the simplicity and elegance I need, it works, no more weird bloated background stuff going on. If it breaks it’s just me, then I fix and learn and repeat.
Hmm, I wrote a 3 month review of EndeavourOS, but I wouldn’t commit to any 3 month challenge. That’s just too long. If anything, I’d consider a 30 day challenge for somethings. But at the moment I’ve only got a single laptop that I use, nothing else to experiment and test. If I did have a spare piece of hardware, I’d prob throw Budgie or KDE or Worm on it.
Was a fan of gnome until ubuntu decided to switch to unity. Obviously not gnomes fault but they were also making a ton of other forced changes towards a mobile type look while abandoning the xp style start menu. Then it was a mad rush to find another deb based classic gnome style distro and luckily I found Mint Mate.
I may have to take another look at gnome just to see what they’ve been up to.
Also moved from Debian based distros to rolling release, first Manjaro then eos. Eos has the simplicity and elegance I need, it works, no more weird bloated background stuff going on. If it breaks it’s just me, then I fix and learn and repeat.
Also welcome to the forums, hope you enjoy your stay!
