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?
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?
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.
+1 for EndeavourOS, have been using for about a year now and it’s been nothing short of great.
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.
Yes it does, you can also leverage the AUR with yay.
What don’t you like about pacman?
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.”
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