I’m considering switching from Windows 10 to something either using KDE or the new Cosmic DE that System76 is working on. Right now I’ve got a 3060TI.

  • lemmyvoreEnglish
    7•7 months ago

    It was released but that doesn’t make it stable… It’s currently still receiving lots of bugfixes and improvements.

    Not sure what switching to Endeavour would accomplish anyway. They both get the same packages from upstream. If you want to get them slightly faster you can switch to the testing repos on Manjaro.

    Also, can we stop reacting to everything with “wipe everything and install the distro I like”? How about working with what they have first, there’s often a solution.

    • @[email protected]
      3•7 months ago

      Those packages are not going to be any more stable when you get them. Just older.

      When you get the bug fixes happening now, it will be long after Arch and EOS did.

      My impression is that EndeavourOS is more stable than Manjaro after using both extensively.

      Anyway, I agree as a general principle that we should stop telling people to switch distros to solve specific technical problems.

      That said, you do not have to wipe everything to move from Manjaro to EOS. I have done it on multiple machines. Perhaps their suggestion was to fix your problem in place.

    • Matt
      -5•7 months ago

      You don’t have to. Just replace Manjaro mirrors with the Arch ones, and you’re good to go.

      • lemmyvoreEnglish
        1•7 months ago

        Sooooo, ignore every point I made and propose jumping to yet another distro. Great advice.

        • @[email protected]
          9•7 months ago

          Manjaro has a history of being sloppy especially with web security. The reason people suggest Endeavour has the same goal (more user friendly arch) without some of those drawbacks.

          • lemmyvoreEnglish
            1•7 months ago

            Let me try smaller sentences.

            Plasma 6 just came out recently. It still has issues. It’s going to keep having issues until they’re fixed. You changing distro does not make the KDE developers fix the issues faster.

            • @[email protected]
              1•7 months ago

              You seem to be missing the forest because of all the trees in your way. The statement to not use Manjaro has nothing to do with KDE or any other DE/WM and everything to do with the development of the OS.