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)?

  • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    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.