If not EndeavourOS, what distro would you be using?

I replied before, but now with more certainty.

Arch, pure and simple.

Fedora, the only other distro I’d consider running as a daily driver.

I tried Pop!OS for a while, but Buntu and deratives are not for me. To strange and quirky syntax, the apt’s, and snaps on top of that. Thanks, but no thanks!

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If today this whole site disappeared and couldn’t update EndeavourOS any longer, I’d still have my three babies and would keep using them even if I couldn’t change them any longer!

Now KDE, XFCE and LXQt, yessir! :baby_chick: :hatched_chick: :hatching_chick:

I’d definitely bite the bullet and install arch.

I can’t think of a life with point releases (shudder at the upgrades) or without AUR.

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I wanted to try other distros, but always switching back to Eos because it is easy to use. As Arch, everything is good documented, easy to install, lot of apps etc

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I would go for Void linux for sure…
Second option is vanilla arch

Vanilla Arch, ArchLabs and then openSUSE-Tumbleweed, Oh wait I’m using those now.

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Mabox possibly, BSD possibly, or most likely go back to Arch

Okay, lately I have changed my choices to: PCLinuxOS-openbox, Mabox, Lilidog, LegacyOS, and Bodhi in that order.

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Well considering it would be easy to stick with it as just Arch, I’d probably stay on Arch. If not, I’d most likely go back to Solus. Maybe Gecko or Lubuntu.

Why these distros?

PCLinuxOS-openbox because it is “quick”, it is fairly “simple” and low on resource usage.
Mabox because it is openbox and arch based.
Lilidog because it is openbox and fairly decent on resource usage.
LegacyOS because it is very low on resource usage.
Bodhi because it is low on resource usage and different using Moksha which is similar to Enlightenment DE.

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Thanks for the Lilidog suggestion! I had never heard of this distro. I am now running it in VirtualBox, and I am very favorably impressed.

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I’d go back to Windows if I cannot have :enos: . I’m miserable after 3-1/2 months of distro-hopping now and becoming dissatisfied with non-purple things under my control.

I should throw Bodhi at my HDD one day to see how responsive it is. Arch & Enlightenment was lightning fast, I typed enlightenment_start to TTY and reached desktop in like one second on an HDD. For reference big DEs like Cinnamon, KDE and GNOME need around 15 secs, so does Firefox.
Now I have an NVMe and use anything on my main PC but not on other devices.

  1. Arch
  2. Gentoo
  3. Void

I think I would stay Arch based.

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Thanks also for reminding me that I should try a recent version of Bohdi.

There’s a soft spot in my heart for Bodhi, because its 32-bit “Legacy” edition (still being maintained) has been useful in my work. For example, I was presented with several very old Windows computers, maybe 25 years old, running Windows 95 or 98, that would power on but would not boot.

Yet, I was able to boot into these ancient computers using Bohdi “Legacy” on a USB stick. I was able to recover all users’ documents from these computers’ ancient parallel ATA drives. I then used the shred utility to write random data, multiple times, to the drives. Finally, these computers were ready for recycling.

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