Manjaro to EndeavourOS experiences

[BONK]

It’s the main page for the website?

https://endeavouros.com/

[mdoverl]

@BONK

It’s the main page for the website?

To be fair, I’ve only looked at that page one time, the first time I came to Endeavour. After that, it’s been a bookmark of the forum.

[BONK]

Sorry to be commander obvious. Fair enough. You might want to go there a little more often. There are some interesting articles linked.

[Tinymeat]

@mandog

I’m 71 years old but yes time is running out

Oh, come on…

[nadb]

You, Cooter, and Handy were staples of the forums when I joined. Happy to see you are around. The users were the backbone of that distro and they were essentially tossed aside like garbage. Your commentary about @jonathon not leaving a mess behind resonated with me, along wiht you rcommentary about PhilM.

[BONK]

@c00ter is here somewhere too…grumpy more than likely.

[nadb]

Manjaro has always seemed to be too light on the sysadmin side. Not a glorious job, but it does keep things running.

[ricklinux]

Hello @mandog
Weren’t you over at Antergos?

[Simon]

@Tinymeat

…I’m just afraid that the development of Endeavour OS can go in a similar direction…

Welcome!
I have a feeling that the EOS team is aware of this and is keeping its hand on the pulse
In this case, for me, less is better, more, and here is even less than in my favorite Antergos, which is good .

[c00ter]

@c00ter is here…lurking…and very grumpy.

Been on a movie binge on HBO Max in gasp Windows, since HBO’s engineers decided to use a more restrictive DRM a few days ago. And there’s no easy way of getting around it. User Agent spoofing doesn’t work. Some have reported using Windows in a VM, others that running a Chrome version for Windows in Wine-staging may work.

All-in-all, I’m glad that one of my 3 laptops still had Windows on it–for now–but I’ve cancelled my HBO Max subscription until they decide to (officially) support Linux. So, anyway, I’m mostly movie-binging until my subscription ends Aug. 26.

So how’s your week been so far?

[Bryanpwo]

We had the exact same problem when moving to the new server @Alpix found the solution, it is a big flaw in Discourse, the images are saved in another file and aren’t automatically put back on the backup, it has to be done manually, but no Discourse manual is telling you that.

[zoli62]

Welcome onboard! We can shake hands. I, too, test different distributions forever, though I consider myself less and less a distrohopper.

[zoli62]

Welcome on board!

[Tinymeat]

@Simon

Welcome!
I have a feeling that the EOS team is aware of this and is keeping its hand on the pulse
In this case, for me, less is better, more, and here is even less than in my favorite Antergos, which is good .

You’re right, and that’s the reason I’ll settle here (for now).
…and thank you for the warm welcome, folks!

[Alpix]

@jonathon

When Phil asked me about this last night, he said that uploaded images were gone from the server but were still present/referenced in the database. This makes me think there was some caching happening, and that’s probably why avatars were still visible but search (etc.) was broken. It looks like they culled/ null ed records referencing images from the database to get search (etc.) working and then tried downloading the lost images from archive.org (which is where I got the image from for one of my FAQ posts, then let Matti know, after which Phil contacted me).

I think they still were visible to most users because of user side caching, we also had that.

@jonathon

Moral of the story: make backups, people! Also, store a copy off-site (or at the very least use your provider’s backup service when you’re running a VM/VPS). Also, test the backup restoration process - backups are worthless if they don’t work.

Do you know if they still have the old install data? If yes I think I am able to help them. In the end I don’t know if they have the exact same problem, but if yes, I can help. I also offered them my help via Twitter, but up to now, nobody contacted me. Maybe they just don’t read reply tweets

So please point that out to to Phil @jonathon he should have my Mail (alpix.eu mirror) or you can write me a pm if he needs other contact information…

I really want to help them, because loosing all images is hard…

[mandog]

I’m every where that is Arch based Linux waiting for the Spin that eclipses simple Arch, but Arch with a installer is not going to cut it.
Their is of course Garuda, https://www.garudalinux.in/ it has all the tools the enthusiasm and the drive just needs users.
By the way this is written on EndeavourOS, Apart from Arch I always have at least 3 spins installed.

[mandog]

Always Knew you were a Windows Lover really Lol

[alenbasic]

I’m curious to try EndeavourOS; I’m mainly using Manjaro at the moment because I’m too lazy to set up Arch from scratch like I used to and the default setup (mainly the theme) is quite nice. What is the out of the box experience of EOS in comparison? Based on the description it seems like it requires more customization from the end user but the terminal focus doesn’t bother me (I’ve never used pamac for example).

[keybreak]

Welcome!

@alenbasic

What is the out of the box experience of EOS in comparison?

Very close, it’s as easy to install and use (if you choose online installation and other than XFCE DE - it might take longer to install, because requires downloading from internet)

@alenbasic

Based on the description it seems like it requires more customization from the end user but the terminal focus doesn’t bother me (I’ve never used pamac for example).

Depends on your DE choice and taste really, all DEs are shipped pretty much as is, with their native defaults

And system itself is very close to Arch on how it behaves and maintains
It’s best to try in VM if you’re in doubt though, no need to go full metal from start

[Bryanpwo]

@Tinymeat

I’m just afraid that the development of Endeavour OS can go in a similar direction…

No, we dont, in fact we don’t even have the time to turn it into that. As said earlier, we even dropped features that Antergos was shipping, just to keep it managable.