A year ago I made a “Cheat Sheet” for my personal EOS maintenance regimen heavily based on A Complete Idiot's Guide To Endeavour OS Maintenance / Update / Upgrade by @anon63071375 . I’ve since modified my cheat sheet slightly for my own use case. Perhaps you’ll find it useful. EndeavourOS Maintenanc…

WOW ~ this was super helpful & like always learned a lot from you @UncleSpellbinder [Educate Yourself | Coolbeans4] Super glad my system is cleaned up now. I KNEW there was a way to do such a thing because my old Buddhist friend showed me this once before, but I could not remember what he taught m…

Pacman-contrib provides a timer+service for paccache (keep the last 3 versions). I don’t like yay -Yc, you dont see what it’s doing, I prefer to keep my function : orph() { while [[ $(yay -Qdtq) ]] do yay -Rs $(yay -Qdtq) done }

Noob question - Why not just use eos-update?

[image] Joe_Mama: Noob question - Why not just use eos-update? This is my 4-6 week maintenance. Not just updating.

Dang… I have run Endeavor for years and before that Antergos for years and never realized the pacnew stuff for new configs :skull::skull:. And even freaking before that vanilla arch and dangit I still didn’t know… Shows I read the wiki not so thoroughly I guess. But I feel you you only know if you …

I like this guide by @anon63071375 [image] A Complete Idiot's Guide To Endeavour OS Maintenance / Update / Upgrade Newbie I’m a complete idiot - so here’s my guide for you! It has been asked a lot, and fairly frequently recently it seems, especially by new En…

Huh, seems I haven’t had a clue about rank-mirrors utility. Seems you never stop learning while on the Arch side of things. I’ve just installed the tool and added to my new month maintenance script.

[image] sradjoker: I like this guide by @anon63071375 Indeed! As do I. Which is why I made sure to give credit where credit is due in my initial post. My personal EOS maintenance regimen/Cheat Sheet is heavily based on @anon63071375 ’s Complete Idiot’s Guide with a few modifications that I pr…

With great power comes great responsibility. —Peter Parker Same holds for the great number of choices we have in the Linux & FOSS world. The number of “simple” and “idiot” guides also steadily increases. :smiley: And one can learn from every one of these, so thank you all for making life a litt…

Its a good thing to know. But I wonder what spurred this comment? pacnew or pacdiff or similar is not mentioned in this thread?

Simple EndeavourOS Maintenance “Cheat Sheet”

General system Newbie

sradjoker June 7, 2025, 2:03pm 15

I like this guide by @anon63071375

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