Maybe what I’m looking for is the holy grail, but what do you guys suggest as a Distro with a good balance between stability and up-to-date packages?

  • CrescentMadeJr@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I find EndeavorOS (Arch) to be very reliable. I use it with KDE. Gnome can be good too for a minimalistic style that doesn’t change much.

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      1 year ago

      +1 for EndeavourOS, have been using for about a year now and it’s been nothing short of great.

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        1 year ago

        Does endeavour use pacman? I’ve got Garuda running on my son’s PC and I’m not a big fan of their update script.

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          1 year ago

          Yes it does, you can also leverage the AUR with yay.

          What don’t you like about pacman?

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            No, I have no issue with pacman, it’s the “garuda-update” script I don’t care for. I see endeavour has eos-update which I haven’t really looked at much but in Garuda if use “pacman -Syu” it will interrupt with “Garuda uses garuda-update for updates” - I know it’s trivial and I don’t have to use it but I don’t like that. Don’t interrupt my workflow to try and coerce me to use your script. Yes, it’s a petty gripe but it feels very microsoft-like in the same way that Windows 11 will delay the launch of Firefox to tell you “Edge was built for Windows.”

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              I see, no EndeavourOS does not do that, you can update your system a few different ways, you can use pacman-Syu or you can use yay.

              Yay will pull from EndeavourOS mirrors and the AUR