EndeavourOS and DistroBox months later...

So back several months ago now, I’d switched off to EndeavourOS, with my own customized installation that EndeavourOS supports, adding in my own personal setup of BtrFS, Hibernation, snapshots, and defaults. Months later I’m still overall happy with this setup! For whatever reason I’m getting few issues (not no issues mind you) that are easy to get around even needed. One such issue was a actually with Firestorm, a GUI client for Second Life that I use often, stopped working after updates to Mesa. With the power of DistroBox, and distrobox-assemble, I simply made a Ubuntu 24.04 “firestorm” box that could easily be recreated and utilized it to create my stable functional environment. Using the equivalent of a container as…

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Through EndeavourOS We Go!

So, I lied, apparently. Well, not really, just decided things were not as I’d like them to be, and some people were just not as they should be. I’ve chosen a different path and with many different reasons for it. I stopped working on and with Garuda. Certain differences of opinion, and certain people, well, more specifically, one person. Edu4rd, whom likes to hide under the hidden A Garuda Admin account, while being an insulting belittling and simply pompous rude person. Not just that, but because EndeavourOS does things very simple, and don’t make massive alterations to the distro like Garuda does. So I’ve been running the distro for several months now actually. I run it on my desktop, on…

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What's Next?

The path of Endeavour I had tried out EndeavourOS extensively as well in my path, and because it was down to the metal Arch Linux without overlaying atop it, it was something that should be investigated. But in the end, due to Telegram community base and due to YAD, and just due to the lack of overall experience and knowledge of the team as a whole. There’s no CI/CD implementation. There’s a guy that build the ISO every month, if they remember, and aren’t on vacation… There’s an honest lack of true commitment in that regards. I asked them about YAD, and got very little about it. Except they intentionally made YAD startup with a delay because it had mysterious…

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