Hello all,
as a long time macos, debian and debian derivates user i finally switched to endavour.
This took me since march 2024. My private notebook till then was Macbook with MACOS about 15 years now.
At work i am with debian and ubuntu since 2008 now. In the beginning of the “new private linux jounrey” i try QubesOS ( i really liked it ) mint, debian 12, mx, fedora, kubuntu, opensuse tubmleweed, arch, endavouros … XFCE, Gnome, KDE…
I like the new KDE Plasma 6.2 a lot. KDE is “my” Desktop.
I reallly like the nice community here and the good documentation of arch and endavouros.
My actual setup is a Lenovo Thinkbook 14 G2 ITL, 40 GB RAM,Intel i5 11th Gen, M.2 512GB System, M.2 2TB Data. “Hybrid” Setup ( a bit like QubesOS ) with several VMs in Vitrualbox for different tasks. The todays possibilitys are endless compared to my early computer years back in the 80s with my first Ti99/4A and later a Commodore C128D
All the best and have a wonderful christmas time.
Greetings from Bavaria/Germany
Andreas
I love stories when people share their Linux journeys. 15 years is a while to have tried it all. Welcome to Endeavour–rejoice that apt and apt-get is vernacular of the past!
PS–what was your Qubes time like? I never tried it. Gave Parrot a shot for a week but it didn’t grow on me. ‘Security’ distros seem to come a lot of pro stuff.
I like QubesOS a lot. The philosophy is really cool.
But i takes time to understand all the stuff. As a daily driver it was to “slow” for me.
But i think when it comes to privacy - its state of the art !
Dont get me wrong. I use debian a lot when it comes to “stability” and “realiability” !
But Kernel 6.1 and KDE 5.27 isent sexy when youre looking for the fresh hot stuff
Especially KDE 6.2 is really nice compared to the old 5.27
And Pacman ist fast as lightspeed compared to apt.
And if you really want to clam dowm a bit, use a distro with zypper
I will be honest when I say that I never found any issues with apt or zypper in terms of speed. I don’t mind waiting for a package to be installed, but you do you man.
Zypper was my “main reason” why i dont go with opensuse tumbleweed for my daily driver.
opensuse in general is a very cool distro ! I like the “out of the box” BTRFS with Snapper support.
But in my opinion zypper is very slow.
Maybe i was doing something wrong with zypper … But comapred to pacman i think it was half as slow.
-Forum! Enjoy your purple ride 
