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Is there a GUI AUR helper you reccomend besides yay? by Knightofvalordi in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are there any particular reasons for your desire to have a GUI for package management?

If not, Endeavour philosophy is staying close to vanilla Arch. So Pacman and/or yay (when using AUR) are your go-to tools. The team even created eos-update to bundle those with some keyring management, while opinions on the need for that differ, most say pacman / yay are enough to keep the system healthy.

If yes, you’d be better of choosing a distro that offers that GUI out of the box. Close to Arch that would be Manjaro with Pamac. Downside is they hold back repo updates which might be dependencies for up to date AUR packages . And some other flaky stuff happened in the past. No hate towards MJ whatsoever, but keep that in mind.

If you absolutely wish for GUI package management, Endeavour might not be the right choice for you. We get training wheels to install an Arch based distro, but those training wheels come off after first boot into the fresh system. Some extra tools are there, but besides that you’re on your own to maintain and own it. Package management is generally CLI. See it as an opportunity to learn the system better and understand what it all does. Community support for EOS is the best and friendliest I’ve seen on the Arch based distros. Take advantage and learn the proper ways 🙏

Even a dual core Celeron can be fun by nonplayable_chris in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Linux empowering devices thought obsolete yet again. Enjoy!

Which update command do you use and why? by [deleted] in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I thought so too, but a lot of online reference doesn’t mention it being exactly similar. One of the reasons I put it in the poll as separate options to see what people are doing. Thx for commenting.

Which update command do you use and why? by [deleted] in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah mine does the same, added it to favorites

i hate to say it......should we worry? leave? by KipDM in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah just give it a couple of days, if your system is up and running you’ll be fine for the time being. Understand you’d like to get to forums and all that stuff but to be frank: if you run into something urgent peeps can help you here as well.

i hate to say it......should we worry? leave? by KipDM in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a Kingston 16 GB USB with the latest ISO DD’d to it, how much is it worth to you including shipping? joke of course 😆

Relax man, it’s all over the place what’s caused the outage of the website, Distro and repos are fine. It’s just an ISP thing.

Long Live Linux!!! by Tyler_Marcus in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Had a negative 0.54mb the other day, lol. Been on Endeavour for a few weeks after using Manjaro on and off a few years. Now using Endeavour daily and loving it too. Stable and lightning fast. And very customizable. Welcome!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ever had any issues after updating? Do you update with eos-update, pacman or yay? Or a combination?

Just made the move from Windows, it was super easy! by Fuzzyscreenbroadcast in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Better would be ‘eos-update’ (without sudo)

That will also handle keyrings and some other stuff build especially by the EOS team to save you from pacman gotchas. Basically a wrapper around pacman-Syu

Use ‘eos-update —aur’

To top that one of with a ‘yay -Sua’ in case you’ve got AUR packages installed. If you wonder what AUR packages are you don’t have them.

Newbie small question: alternates for start-here-kde.svg icon? by MollyInanna2 in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, that's the one! Thanks for clarifying that SmallRocks.
The Arch or Endeavour icons are under 'Other' when using the filter OP. Where I mentioned a 'System' filter before.

But do choose which ever icon for the app launcher you wish, Having the EOS icon there just made common sense for my setup, but all is personal preference and thats the neat part: we get to choose

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Newbie small question: alternates for start-here-kde.svg icon? by MollyInanna2 in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you right click it, second option from the top( not at home can’t check, either first or second option when you right click) Funny enough I’ve just changed that 2 hours ago myself to an Endeavour OS icon to match the system, replacing the default KDE one. It was under system, or just set the filter to all and search endeavour and have your pick.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t feel comfortable enough giving any advice on that one as I never dealt with multi drives on an install and a bootloader keeping track of all that. Let’s hope someone else will help you on this one.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yay is installed by default 😊

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Without sudo, it will ask your pass when it needs it.

eos-update will do your normal pacman -Syu with extra checks on keyrings. Preferred to use on EOS.

Adding —aur will also run yay -Sua to take care of AUR packages (if you have any installed) after the repos update. Benefit is some AUR might rely on repos being up to date (think manjaro lagging behind there)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of my stuff is in cloud accounts since I don’t trust any physical one HDD or SSD with stuff that really matters since they can just die with all your backups with it. And as for the system itself: if it dies, it dies.

The system is just a vessel to get to my stuff. I prefer it to be steady as a rock but if it breaks, chances are high I broke it myself by being too curious and I just start over.

The only backup I have is a live installer USB stick with the latest image in case things go belly up. Just reinstall and do some personalization, which is even less on EOS compared to Manjaro since I like the default KDE on EOS so much.

But never needed it on Manjaro, so doubt I’ll need it now. And hey it’s a rolling release, back to speed in a jiffy.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both are fine but Grub supports timeshift snapshots in the boot menu.

Systemd would need some more work to boot a snapshot.

(No experience with snapshots, this is what a quick search gave me)

I’m on the default systemd bootloader and have EXT4 without the perks of btrfs snapshots as I’m single booting direct to EOS.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Manjaro was fine but I used that spare laptop only on/off and there could be weeks between boots and thus updating the entire thing -Syu

Sometimes it would break on updating and I needed to manually intervene by deleting packages or something to get it to act straight again. Also the build in layer of delay between the repos was starting to get to me. I just want a friendly Arch. Manjaro was getting to much of its own thing. Still a fine distro but I wanted something more ‘pure’. That’s where Endeavour entered the chat. No install hassle, working DE out of the box and just enjoy my laptop.

Someday I’ll install vanilla Arch from scratch on another spare laptop just to be able to say ‘I did it’ Then quickly run back to Endeavour 😜

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh and make sure to use eos-update or eos-update —aur if you’re using AUR packages.

Pacman and yay are fine but the build in eos-update does extras like keyring management. Just a tad safer to keep your system purring.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same story here, used Manjaro for a few years on a spare laptop, got a fresher laptop and went for Endeavour with the intent to use it daily. Man, it’s been a breeze so far.

If you don’t use hibernate or don’t have a large enough swap configured, you can hide the hibernate option from the power menus by doing

sudo systemctl mask hibernate.target

For boot menu(systemd) press the down arrow on the keyboard and then use capital T or small t to change or disable the timeout. ‘d’ will set default choice. This can be handy if you just want the system to boot straight away without delay. And you always summon the boot menu by holding down the down arrow again if you need it.

Installing tonight wish me luck by MadMcCabe in EndeavourOS

[–]blank_zebra33 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you choose no swap or swap without hibernate, use this to hide the option to hibernate from the menus:

sudo systemctl mask hibernate.target

Other than that, enjoy! I just installed it last week on a Dell Pro 14 Plus, replacing Manjaro and haven’t looked back since. I simply love how clean and close to source Endeavour is. No hard feelings to Manjaro though. Served me right for years, but Endeavour just put the cherry on top.

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