Those countries listed are where the ISOs are hosted. It’s possible to download from any of them, I didn’t select my country when I downloaded mine as my one wasn’t on there either. The ISO itself will let you change language when you run it.
We only rebuild the ISOs periodically. Since the kernels get constant updates and non-LTS kernels have such support windows, the ISO kernel will frequently be EOL. However, if you do an online install(Which is the most common choice), it will install the latest kernel, not the one from the ISO. If you do an offline install, the kernel will be updated the first time you update.
As for your original question, here is an answer I wrote sometime back:
That’s entirely up to you. Try running on the live ISO for a while and see if you like it. I’ve only been running it for the last 5 years+ so i wouldn’t want to give you false hope. ![]()
I, too, have been running the same EOS system since only the distro’s very existence, if your only concern is stability.
I’d gave you a word of advice, though ,to give it a trial period, so you can verify that it suits your likings, workflow, or whatever else.
meh – never ran a distro I couldn’t completely destroy by accident. the ball would be in your court, not endeavour’s for 50% of your ‘stable’ equation…
I had to Chroot once in one year…that has to be the going rate for all of them…
This is a very popular distro with a big following, very active forum, and generally happy users. That should speak volumes about stability. I could walk away from Pop, but you walked away from Manjaro. I have no 1st-hand knowledge of Manjaro-Endeavour similarity but I’d have to guess not much.
to answer you question directly: yeah it’s way stable. You should do it.
I find your questions a bit vague. What do you mean by “stable and actually works”?
Do you want to switch? If so, why do you want to switch? These questions aren’t able to be answered by us, in my opinion.
I mean can it be use for daily driving…
I see. Yes it is stable enough for daily driving. It all depends on how much tinkering you do, in my experience. The occasional hiccup does happen, of course, but things are usually fixed pretty quickly. Setting up btrfs also helps a lot too.
Just installed endeavour os, seems fine so far
How do I know if my kernel is at EOL and I need to switch?
Remember that you’re running Arch, so you’ll likely use the most up-to-date kernel without really thinking. That is to say: don’t worry too much about it. Update once a week and you should be fine.
Same installation for almost 2 years now, LTS kernel by default, KDE desktop environment, system updates once every 2 weeks or when arch-audit-gtk complains. So far - rock solid ![]()
(I don’t go crazy with system customization)
Kernel updates happen automatically, you just need to do your normal updates.
I consider myself quite the tinkerer, yet EOS has been stoic and resisted everything I’ve thrown at it. Nothing I did managed to compromise the system so much that it broke completely and required a full reinstall. At best, it required some troubleshooting but, and that is the best tip I can give in this case, having been using linux for many years brings your senses to new heights and you just know when you are about to do something stupid, so you immediately take a snapshot (backup) and proceed with doing stupid things: then you have the option to evaluate what to do if you messed up, asking yourself the question “does it take more time to restore the previous snapshot or to troubleshoot?”. Imagine you are playing a videogame and you quicksave before harassing a strong enemy …it’s basically the same.
I’m pretty new to Linux but I’ve found EoS to be quite stable. I’ve been running it for 9.5 months now and had to chroot into the live environment once to fix a self inflicted boot issue*. Other than that I haven’t had the system break or any major software issues.
*My wifi stopped working after a kernel update but instead of switching to the LTS kernel until it was resolved I tried to use time shift without realizing it would break things since the boot was systemd and not grub. Now I keep the LTS and Xen kernels around and make sure I have a backup of my home directory.
No real issues here other than my own messing with it sometimes causes it to bug out. Again that’s after me installing tons of applications and what not and just customizing the hell out of my computer or my system to the point where like it just can’t function well because I probably overloaded it. I would say though it is the most stable system I’ve ever used endeavoros without a doubt hands down. I used to use elementary OS but it had a lot of bugs and froze on me for no reason without me even customizing it or doing anything to it and I had to get rid of it because of that. Switched at endeavor os and never been back.
Welcome @hssh!
In my experience KDE-EndeavourOS is very stable; I use it on 2 different machines,both setups are rock solid. I can only speak for myself and my setups, though.
EXACT SAME ~ i switched from elementary os which i still do like but it is very unstable