Deconceptualist

Cool, I appreciate the heads up and I think I’m ready for that. Cheers!

Endeavour is committed (their philosophy) to no GUI, only CLI commands, so keep that in mind.

That’s actually the first time I’ve seen that mentioned. It’s not highlighted on their website, in fact I had to go digging for this old 2019 article to get some insight on the philosophy there.

https://discovery.endeavouros.com/articles/does-endeavouros-frown-upon-gui-solutions-for-pacman/2019/11/

I’m not afraid of CLI so this is fine. I’m not an expert by any means but using it more will push me to learn. The updater frontend in Manjaro is kind of inconsistent anyway (e.g. it only shows Flatpaks sometimes) so I’ve often found myself using pacman in the terminal already.

These days I’m most interested in Endeavour and Garuda, mostly as gateways into the Arch world without the headaches. Endeavour seems more mature so that’ll be my next install.

I’m giving up on Manjaro since it seems to lag and have odd discrepancies with Arch/AUR.

Going further back I liked Mint and SuSE and even Ubuntu, but the lack of gaming focus has driven me to other distros.