I don’t know how I ended up with Endeavour OS

Welcome Zircon, I might have an idea: Debian is the slowest evolving distro known to mankind, so no problems with multiple daily updates. And if you don’t wanna go thru the impossible hassle of installing vanilla Debian, Sparky is a fine alternative:

It’s to Debian what Endeavour is to Arch.

All is fine and good.

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Thanks for this, I did not know about Sparky, nice easy review video. Will definitely check it out for some of my machines lying around, if it is not only out of curiosity :grinning:

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:laughing: I should put up such a tower on my flat roof, haha! I can definitely relate to this guy…

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Yeah, that’s what’s good about Arch & Endeavour - daily updates (more or less), but less to download per update. Unlike other arch-based distros (or indeed Windows) which hold updates back for a month or more and do massive downloads 1-2 times per month.

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Ain’t that the truth? I find it much easier to deal with any issues if there are only a few updates involved. When there are over one hundred it can be a real pain in the a**!

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So actually you know exactly how you ended up with EndeavourOs :wink:

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Welcome! I also found myself on EnOS for work and had similar reservations, but so far it’s been really stable and the smaller updates help isolate problems for troubleshooting when/if they happen.

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Obviously you haven’t been looking at Slackware :joy:.

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:joy:

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Obviously I haven’t. But,tell me, that after 13 years in the making, even Tool brought out a new album BEFORE Slackware brought out a new version? It happened to Debian … which makes it officially verifiable sloooooooooooooooow. :roll_eyes:

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Are you suggesting that Debian went 13 years without a new version at some point?

The gap between 2.1 and 2.2 was only about 11 years.*

So, not slow at all. :rofl:

(* lest anyone take it seriously - that’s a joke - they didn’t really)

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11 years? I’ve got a Puppy/Slacko on a USB that’s 10 so far. It’s 32-bit so will load on anything and by default has root privileges. Talk about a digital weapon of mass destruction. I use it as my rescue tool. chroot? Who needs it? It never updates and it’s still (obviously) as good as new. A few more years and Debian and Slackware will look like a rolling release in comparison. I guess they call it puppy love :rofl:

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Naw. I’d never. But Tool went 13 years without a new album. And it was a running gag that we’d first see a new Tool album before we see a new Debian version. And - as if they’ve heard it -Tool released their first album in 13 years a few months before Debian released their new distro version.
All is well in the world. :slight_smile:

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I can’t wait until GNU/Hurd becomes usable.

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I guess you’re a big believer in reincarnation then? :laughing:

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It will be soonTM, I’m not too worried. It’s just a slow release cycle.

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Soon? Now there is a variable concept! :wink:

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Meanwhile, a post from a couple of weeks ago on an “unofficial” Slackware blog that’s run by a SlackBuild developer. Slackware is finally going to be upgrading from KDE 4 to Plasma 5! :partying_face:

slackware_plasma_5

(Note that it’s currently still in Testing)

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I’m surprised the guy/gal has one of those new-fangled “laptops” too. Who would of thought it, a mobile computer that runs on batteries? Gosh, I would really like to try one of those but I feel rather insecure about new technology. :wink:

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Sure I do! :grin:

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