Hi, I’m new to this distribution and been at Fedora42 for weeks. There was a real reason to move away from Fedora 42 and switch to Debian, and it’s running smoothly now. I thought I’d try another Arch distribution and ended up here. The color, grin, inspired me, very positive. You feel really comfortable here. You also learn something new from Arch. So far, I’ve had a good impression of here. I hope I’m here for a long time, grin.
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Hi @anon92950593 and welcome to the 
-Forum!
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Hi @anon92950593 nice to meet you.
Enjoy your stay here and your OS.
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Hello @anon92950593 take a seat and enjoy 
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Moin Achim,
herzlich Willkommen in einem der freundlichsten Foren, die ich kenne. Und bei einer der besten Ditributionen, die ich kenne (und das sind nicht wenige 
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Welcome to the forum @anon92950593
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Hello @anon92950593 , welcome the the forum 
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Hi @anon92950593 , welcome aboard, enjoy your flight. 
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Welcome to the forums! EndeavourOS cured my distro hopping. I daily drive it now! Hope to see you around a bit more!
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Hi and welcome to the forum and EndeavourOS
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Welcome! Auric Goldfinger was from Germany too .
Re: your journey. It is important to have a solid primary and a good #2 distro in my experience. Because: no updates are guaranteed. if you have not borked your OS and lived to fight another day in Linux then you have not truly lived
rock on, I agree the positive vibe hear is huge. enjoy.
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Welcome dude or dudette.
I also had issues with Fedora (Nobara) at the very start. Switched to Linux Mint Debian Edition then Zorin which were both stable. But I wanted to learn more about terminal commands and using a distro that spoon feeds you everything via GUI interface wasn’t helping to learn anything - which is why I ended up here. Get to know 4 or 5 pacman -S, pacman -R and pacman -Q commands and you can keep things steady while discovering the versatility of Endeavour, and effectively customise your system how you wish.
Good luck on your journey.
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welcome Goldfinger044
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Hi there,
I’m really glad you’re here and that you’ve chosen EndeavourOS. I started out just like you — with Debian-based distributions, then Fedora, and finally Arch through EOS — to experience all three worlds. And I think most people here have followed a similar path at some point.
It’s clear there’s no single right answer or a “one-size-fits-all” distro. But what is true is that the lightness, smoothness, speed, and level of customization you’ll find in Arch are unmatched. And on top of that, it’s always up to date.
That’s why I believe that for truly enthusiastic Linux users, once you gain enough knowledge and a bit of confidence, the natural path leads to Arch — unless your main goal is to run a server or a system where you want as few updates as possible.
With EOS, you’ll get an almost pure Arch system that’s blazing fast and works incredibly well. It won’t disappoint you.
Welcome to the forum, and enjoy your stay! 
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Main goal, grin. That’s one thing. But the future of Linux is bright. Considering what’s happening with Windows. I’m from Bavaria, and people in my area haven’t yet gotten a taste for what Linux can do and that it can really be a great alternative.
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Haha, thanks! 
Yeah, I guess that last sentence came straight out of an AI translator, right? Happens to all of us these days! Anyway, totally agree — the future of Linux really does look bright, especially with what’s going on in the Windows world. Cheers from Spain!
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Hey! Good to have you with us! If I didn’t have EOS/Arch, I’d absolutely fall back to Debian, but this is where I’m putting down roots and happy to just have an incredibly polished and stable Arch-based distro. No intention to run pure Arch and deal with all the rough edges, I just need things to work and having nothing to prove.
Enjoy the journey and use what works for you
Funny how Linux can feel completely different depending on who’s using it.
For me, it’s actually the complete opposite. On Debian, I keep running into issues with games that won’t launch, poor performance, FPS drops, and outdated NVIDIA drivers that are a pain to update and get working properly.
On Arch, though, everything just works — I only need to keep a few snapshots around and maybe roll back or downgrade something specific once in a blue moon…
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There’s a reason why Valve chose Arch with KDE for the Steam Deck, - for gaming, having cutting edge drivers is a huge plus. Debian absolutely has its place, and if I was far less active on Steam, I’d consider Debian to be good enough and boringly stable as the “I have a job and a mortgage” type of Linux that people tend to use it for. Having said that, EOS has been rock solid for years of intentionally not going out of my way to break it.
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