I first started using Manjaro after being on Debian/Ubuntu derivatives for years. Mint used to be my daily driver, then LMDE for a while. After struggling with Endeavour OS, through 2 or 3 breaking updates requiring a reinstall I made Manjaro with KDE Plasma my home for several years.
Manjaro was stable and, I thought blazing fast, compared to Mint. Everything just worked and was cutting edge. I thought my distro hopping days were over and I found the one that works for me.
Recently I’ve been reading about Cachy OS and decided to give it a whirl on my test Dell Latitude. Turns out that, I had no idea how fast and lean Linux could be on that off-lease business laptop! I know have it installed on my main Laptop and it’s leaps and bounds faster than Manjaro, has none of the bloat and just works! I know it’s early, but I think I have found a new home! I have timeshift set up just in case, so I’ll see how stable it is over the next few months, but so far I am impressed.
Highly recommend everyone who’s into Arch and rolling release to try it.
Out of curiosity, what made Endeavor hard? After distro hopping since the mid-90s, I had been happily running bare Arch for the past couple, with Artix on one laptop; I got a new desktop and installed Endeavor on it, and it’s been great. I mean, it’s Arch, it just wasn’t as fussy to install, but I don’t really notice a difference.
Of course, I’m not running a desktop; just herbstluftwm, and that smooths out a lot of the differences, but there’s far less difference between raw-dog Arch and EndeavorOS than between Arch and Artix.
within 6 months running it as a desktop OS with KDE it broke twice during update to the point that it was easier to reinstall than to fix. it maybe better a a barebones setup, but as a desktop, I had issues with it.