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Booting my new #Slimbook into the #EndeavourOS installation liveUSB …here it goooooeeees!! (Wish me luck)
@hook what is your daily driver? Curious about Endavour, really have no life to spare for getting Arch up an running
@escapetofreedom, for the past few years I was using Manjaro, but I tried all sorts of things before.
Some notable ones:
- Slackware – grew up on that late 90’s
- ClarkConnect – my first own server
- Debian
- Gentoo – probably my longest stint, had it even running on an ARM server
- Mageia / Mandriva – great community
- NixOS – I love the concept, but for a daily (KDE) desktop driver, it was too problematic
- Mint
- Kubuntu
- Armbian – on my ARM servers
- Manjaro – did not feel like Arch really
@hook oh well, you're quite a hopper 
I'm on Debian and Debian based distros for like 20 years, looking for something new to try. Arch seems nice, but would like to hear newcomer's experience that is not from archbtw like folks, with all due respect
@escapetofreedom, so far EndeavourOS has been pretty kind to me. I am also getting used to Yay.
I find Pacman’s syntax a bit weird and Pamac seems to have a mind of its own, so Yay seems like a good and common compromise.
I have to say, EndeavourOS installer was super simple and the out-of-the-box experience works fine. But need to polish it myself.
What I (think I will) like about Arch/EndeavourOS is the KISS principle. With Debian etc. I always worry my tweaks will clash with e.g. Debian’s.
@escapetofreedom, long story short: so far it seems EndeavourOS with just a few clicks gives you a fully functioning Arch install with at least some sane defaults.
But also leaves you all the fun of an Arch or Gentoo install of tweaking the living hell out of it, because the distro won’t mess with your set-up and try to force its own preferences onto you.
That means loads of reading though. (Or just keep everything stock/vanilla.)
@hook Thanks! I’d go with Gentoo frankly, I own it that much, but I really have no time to compile stuff from source for every update. That’s how it’s done still right?