To all if of us who came from different distros, what distro, and what feature do you miss most?
For myself, the stability and first-party software support of Debian based distros(particularly Pop!_OS) is what I miss when I use EOS. Infact, I still keep a small partition for Pop!_OS.
Yeah. I came from Manjaro too. I was freaking out sesrching for pamac when I first got EOS. Who would have thunk the most popular Arch package manager would be an AUR pkg!
Yeah, I miss Debian, where the packages were so old and creaky and you had to wipe dust off them before using them…actually, no I don’t…
Or Ubuntu/Mint, where random PPA of the day would be required to run $THIS_APP then $THAT_APP, then of course the system needed to be reloaded, because $THAT_APP requires the latest gcc or some similar bollocks. As we say here in Kiwiland; “YEAH NAH”.
EnOS is stable, and up-to-date. How does this miracle occur?
Random, arbitrary holding back of packages leading to 600+ package 2GB+ download “stable” updates … yeah nah.
Repo access to older kernels was a plus though, I have a very old laptop that works best with 4.19, which is in the AUR, but I’d have to build it … which would probably melt the old clunker.
Cups is a finicky beast. Works well with Brother, and Epson (although finding the right driver for Epson is a pain), otherwise it’s really hit and miss. HP require HPLIP to work usually.