...and it went very smoothly. I installed on a spare PC for now, but I could absolutely see this becoming my daily driver. I'm mostly surprised at how snappy and responsive it is, even on 10 year old hardware!
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Are there any things you could mention specifically?
I'm using Manjaro with KDE, and I find it extremely easy to maintain, which I like.
I use mostly Steam for games, and it runs very well out of the box, even better than I ever managed with Arch.
I used Antergos for a couple of years, and that was also great, but it quickly fell apart when it was discontinued although I tried to remove the Antergos dependencies, I don't want to experience that again with EndeavourOS which was started by the same people.
Why should I trust EndeavourOS when I couldn't trust Antergos?
Someone else could (and has in other threads where manjaro came up) answer better than me for general reasons, but for reasons that personally affected me - version mismatches due to them holding back releases, driver issues (with an amd card), general app installation/updating issues.
Audio issues due to poor defaults, which as a beginner (at the time) user was difficult enough to diagnose I uninstalled plasma (twice) trying to fix (yes, that part is my fault for not understanding what pacman -Rcns actually does).
The installer is using a very incomplete timezone list that does not include any GMT -8 timezones at all (which isn't manjaro specific, but makes me leery of a dev's attention to detail when they use this list).
For the general comments I have seen others mention, they have accidentally ddos'd the AUR on more than one occasion, they let certs expire regularly, they hold back updates without actually doing anything to confirm the updates are stable when they do push the updates...
As for endeavouros devs being part of a discontinued project, I can't say anything that would bring back your trust as I am not part of that team, but they did do a write up about this on the endeavouros website.
Thanks for your very thorough answer. ππ
I haven't had any of those issues myself, I also use AMD and have for many years, everything always worked fine with the default setup.
Some years back I too changed Pulse audio settings, not because the defaults were bad, as I remember it, it was pretty much Pulse audio default settings they used.
But in early days there could be problems with Wine that required higher priority for Pulse audio, and some fine tuning of buffer settings that may be hardware specific.
There is however one thing that annoys me with Manjaro, and that is that updates sometimes overwrite config settings I have manually made changes to. Arch generally didn't do that as I recall, but made a notice about the config file from the update being copied with a different name to preserve manual settings, which is excellent.
I'll check out what they write about discontinuing Antergos. But for now it's kind of a "if it works don't fix it" situation for me.