Thanks, but I had some issues while following the guide (mostly Arch key issues although Arch keyring is installed and up-to-date) and I didn’t want to start debugging already at that point.
Went with a fresh installation, which went great. The thing that took me longest when setting up Manjaro back then was getting my Samsung network printer’s scanner function working, but it surprisingly worked right on the first try.
For kernels, I run AMD only hardware, so I want to stay with newest kernels anyway might just give linux-zen a try.
And surprisingly, all my essential software is already up and running again including homeoffice. Most configs were simply copy&pasteable from my backup.
For the update-process: I want to go the other way. I already think about enabling testing and staging to get the newest llvm
Clean install with Linux-zen is the way to go, EndeavourOS base install is vanilla and relatively bare bones, which is a great starting point to configure your OS exactly the way you wish. No debloating as a first step.
With AMD hardware it just works, although I had to add amd_iommu=off to kernel parameters as I was getting some system hangs on suspend / wake cycle.
OK, this discussion doesn’t really add anything to this “tutorial” thread. How long it takes to perform a fresh installation of any OS is not really relevant here. The point is that it’s possible to convert a running Manjaro installation (or Arch installation, for that matter) to EnOS. Most people would be better off installing fresh - which is covered in the OP - but for those who want to convert then it’s possible to do so.
I got an old laptop with atom cpu and I could not boot the eos iso, so I was digging in the trash can of the wild internet and found a script, which surprisingly actively developed here:
So I ran it on a fresh manjaro VM and it pretty much comes out stock Arch with only the theming remains as I found out he/she must have liked the colors, anyway it should be an easy task to get the eos stuff on a vanilla. Now, onto the metal…