[mcbuilder]

EndeavourOS is great for an easy to use Arch distro. I built my kids some PCs, 3 in total. They all got endeavourOS and not issues so far (so far I've taught them how to upgrade). It's been a godsend for me, because I've been daily driving Arch for the last 15 years. I really have no desire to switch for my personal OS, and if I did it would deeper down the Linux rabbit hole not the opposite. It gave my kids a great of the box experience and it's the system I know how to maintain best.

[dymax78]

EndeavourOS has been my daily driver for about 4 years - I'm a huge fan. A breeze to install, excellent community, and I like the QoL features/packages they've added.

[giancarlostoro]

Last time I tried an arch based "easy" installable distro it was a nightmare for me, this was probably 5 years ago. How likely am I to break my OS with EndeavourOS are there any things I should avoid? My interest in something like Arch is only in order to have access to more modern compilers and tools, as opposed to whatever is frozen in a Debian repo or whatever distro I'm using. I've been fine with POP but would like the flexibility that you get on Windows and Mac to use any version of a software.

[7839284023]

> How likely am I to break my OS with EndeavourOS are there any things I should avoid?

If you have some Linux experience - unlikely I would say.

I'd suggest that you check https://archlinux.org/news/ from time to time, to see if there are any breaking changes / things that need manual intervention.

Asides from that, take care of your Pacnew files [1] and you should be good to go. EndeavourOS provides a "Welcome" application which makes this task simple.

Finally the EndeavourOS Forums are a super friendly place to get help in case you still manage to break something [2]

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave

[2] https://forum.endeavouros.com/

[dymax78]

In addition to 7839284023's suggestions, if you're making regular backups and not performing partial updates, I think it's unlikely you'll tank your OS and if you do, you got the backups. You mentioned debian and things to avoid post-install - if you're looking for something as invaluable and concentrated as dontbreakdebian, you won't find it with Arch (outside of simply pointing to the wiki).

EndeavourOS has their own wiki . I get the impression they were/are attempting to translate the Arch wiki to a more succinct and ingestible format, but many of the articles are several years old so I'd recommend vetting those that are applicable to your use case.

[Rinzler89]

> How likely am I to break my OS with EndeavourOS are there any things I should avoid?

The exact same chance Arch has to break something: so quite likely, as in, it's not a matter of IF, but a matter of WHEN. The exact WHEN being dependent on how unlucky you are.

I'm sure I'll get a dozen downvotes and replies from people saying they've been using Arch since the beginning of time and never had an issue, but a full update of EndevourOS left me without working sound. Not ideal considering I'm applying for jobs and need sound to work for interviews.

For that I need an OS that's 100% bulletproof, not something I need to read up tutorials, blogposts, newsletters, wikis, to learn how to manage, since I don't want another part time sys-admin job, I want something to JustWorks™ without any studies or maintenance.

For a secondary tinkering/learning machine it's a very nice OS since the documentation is also nice, but I would never daily drive it on a main machine that I use for earning a living.

[ativzzz]

Yup same, I was using it on my laptop that I fired up every 1 or 2 weeks and one update the bootloader broke so it was bye to Endeavor. I enjoyed it very much until then

[hju22_-3]

Just curious; is there a distro you've found that fits the JustWorks™ requirements?

[Rinzler89]

I haven't tried to daily drive too many distros at home to draw any conclusion.

At work, Ubuntu was also a nightmare, OpenSUSE was pretty solid, and at home Windows never caused me any issues so I'll be sticking to that until I have more time to try out switching to Linux again, but I do like Nobara and TuxedoOS as JustWorks distros, though like I said, i never daily drove them do draw an conclusions

[earthling8118]

Windows never caused you issues? That's an incredibly bold statement. I had to switch off of Windows because it was nothing but issues.