Advice on switching from Kubuntu to EndeavourOS? - eviltoast

I tested it a bit in a VM to get familiar with pacman and yay. Latest KDE Plasma 6 and more snaps in Ubuntu’s future are the main reasons I want to switch.

As I don’t use a separate home partition, I have an extra drive with BackInTime home dir backups and virtnbdbackup snapshots.

Is EndeavourOS stable enough for everyday use and would restoring home with BackInTime just work (as root user)?

  • Shareni@programming.dev
    25·
    8 months ago

    Keep using it and you’ll fail to boot after an update, it’s just a matter of time. I’ve had it happen even on devices I exclusively used for browsing and playing videos.

    You make it sound like you should keep a bucket of water handy before you even boot it up.

    No, but you should keep an arch thumb drive handy whenever you’re updating. You never know when the installation script will give up, or GRUB release a faulty update.

    • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
      52·
      8 months ago

      Well, for one thing I don’t use GRUB, so there’s one obstacle off the list.

      • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        So I guess due to hubris my latest system update ran the yay cache to the limit of my storage capacity and I couldn’t reboot into a graphical environment. I suspect it was the electron update, BTW.

        So do I need that rescue USB? Of course not. In systemd-boot, press e, end key, space and 1 and you’re booted into a command line environment.

        paccache -ruk0 nukes the pacman cache to be on the safe side

        yay -Scc to clear the yay cache completely

        And you’re off to the races again.