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I made a post a few days ago asking your opinion on Manjaro and it was very mixed, with a slightly negative overall opinion. I heard some recommend EndeavourOS instead and did some online research and it seems to be pretty solid and not have the repository problem that Manjaro has.

Just for context I am a Linux noob and have only used Mint for about the past six months. While I don't have any major complaints, I am looking to explore more distros and the Arch repository with its rolling releases. I am not a huge fan of how certain packages on apt are a few years old and outdated. However, I also don't have the time to be always configuring my OS and just want something that works well out of the box.

Is EndeavourOS a solid choice?

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have had pamac cause problems. I do not use it.

[–] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should look into Octopi then. It uses pacman for all its operations.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I completely forgot Octopi existed. I should give it a shot. Can it work with the AUR though?

[–] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yep! It can leverage paru, yay, etc. for the AUR.