Yes I forgot to say that This is the best community!
Hey! Great to have you with us, - I get the feeling youāre kind of living in the golden age of Linux, - years, (and I mean years!) back, there was a whole heap of manual configuration for things as āsimpleā as your monitor (give your CRT the wrong frequency in xf86config, and you end up frying your hardware).
Things are blissfully smoother now, and while each operating system has its pros and cons, use the right tool that works for you.
Iāve been distro hopping like crazy since beginning of 2021, tried almost everything out there and I liked the Arch based distros till settled on EndeavourOS since September 2021! (with some distro hopping now and then)
You know what, no matter where I distro hop, I always come back home.
Really enjoying this amazing distro and this amazing forum.
Enjoy!
Distro Hopping is passe!
Thanks @ricklinux itās been all good so far.
Hi @shadow359 Thanks, this distro felt the best out of the ones I tried (Which in total was between 8 of them). I also took the forum in to account too, I like to help people if I can or at least work out an issue with them to get more information if I donāt know the answer as someone else may know the answer with the extra information, some forum communities feel like they are intentionally not being helpful even though they are replying to posts or groups labelled as newbie.
Hi @Canoe Linux has been pretty stress free currently and all my hardware worked with no issues and been pretty impressed, setting it up was actually faster than when I setup Windows as I wasnāt spending ages disabling and changing stuff I didnāt like or want or doing obscure changes to bypass microsoft.
I have used Linux in the past a few times through Virtual machines,once around 2014 and again in 2019 but this time I initially tested briefly all distros in virtual machine and then committed to EOS on my actual PC and used it daily since. I have read that it used to be harder far before 2014 but I was a child back then so I never knew Linux existed and was busy digging holes in the ground barefoot etc. But at least from 2014 itās definitely easier both in usability and software and game availability and at least for me so far very stable which is a good thing.
I do weekly updates and so far had no issues, if I had an issue usually rolling release is quite quick to fix (Depending on the issue) and the only issue I had so far from updates was fixed an a few hours with another update.
Hi @limotux when I was testing my distros I really wanted to try everything Linux had to offer so I have Ubuntu based mint and PopOS and Vanilla OS, debian based too (Which I know ubuntu is based on Debian too), arch based EOS and Arch, redhat Fedora, OpenSUSE and a few others, and even tested different desktop environments (About 5 of them) and looking at the forums of all of them, in 2014 and 2019 I remember testing Manjaro and Ubuntu. For me EOS came out on top in the end, and EOS was the first distro I added on my list too especially as I found Arch based to be more my thing too and EOS is a good combination of freedom and benefits of Arch and also ease of use.
Also purple colours are my favourite so and added bonus there.
I see @_Six you are a distro hopper like me.
What I really liked about Arch based is that you just install once. This is what I believe is more convenient.
On the other hand, almost 3 years on EndeavourOS no serious issues or stability issues.
Above all, this the most friendly community I came across since I ever started Linux in 2000.
No argument best hands down.
Hi @Enthrall I checked a bunch of distros and this specific distro (and also as I prefer Arch based) was the best and felt the most right for what I wanted out of an OS, and looking forward to using more of it.
Iāve broken my system back when I was learning. Back up your home directory and delete the baloo index. I use vorta and just exclude. Good luck out there.
I still break my system occasionally but only because I want to test something outside a VM but because of things Iāve learnt from people on here my most important files are backed up and it only takes half and hour or so after install to get back to what I had before I broke things. Best advice I can give is Backup, backup, backup
EDIT. Although this is a rarity for me still, Backup, Backup, Backup
After my last misadventure I finally decided to dabble with Timeshift and I havenāt broken anything since
timeshift is the way. But also you guys should check out eos-shifttime. I havenāt used this but I might have to soon if kde keeps it up.