I tested it a bit in a VM to get familiar with pacman and yay. Latest KDE Plasma 6 and more snaps in Ubuntu’s future are the main reasons I want to switch.
As I don’t use a separate home partition, I have an extra drive with BackInTime home dir backups and virtnbdbackup snapshots.
Is EndeavourOS stable enough for everyday use and would restoring home with BackInTime just work (as root user)?
Arch is not stable, and therefore neither is endeavour. That doesn’t mean you can’t use it, but expect that it will break, and always have arch live media with you if you’re updating your system. Btrfs or something similar will save you from a lot of frustration.
You have the VM, try it out
LOL what? I had more trouble with Debian updates than I do with Endeavour. You make it sound like you should keep a bucket of water handy before you even boot it up.
In the month or so it’s been on my laptop, it’s been stable as in reliable but it’s definitely not stable in the more traditional sense - unchanging.
Fair. With the amount of updates you should have received in a month, how could it be unchanged? In a “ship of Theseus” sense, is it at all the same as when you installed it? 🧐
Keep using it and you’ll fail to boot after an update, it’s just a matter of time. I’ve had it happen even on devices I exclusively used for browsing and playing videos.
No, but you should keep an arch thumb drive handy whenever you’re updating. You never know when the installation script will give up, or GRUB release a faulty update.
Well, for one thing I don’t use GRUB, so there’s one obstacle off the list.