LeFantome

I have started using Distrobox + Arch as well to get the AUR in other systems. I quite like Chimera Linux for example but it has few packages at the point. Distrobox + Arch / AUR solves that perfectly.

No, you are right. EndeavourOS is about two-dozen packages on top of the Arch repos and AUR ( 80,000 packages ). Most of the additional packages are just nice-to-have utilities you can enjoy or avoid.

EOS ( EndeavourOS ) is more of an opinionated Arch installer than a stand-alone distribution. Other than theming, almost everything in a fresh EOS install comes from the Arch repos. Even the kernel is native Arch.

I happen to like the way EOS sets up the system, including that it installs yay by default which makes the AUR available right away.

You can disable the EOS repos in EndeavourOS if you want. It really is just Arch.

Since EndeavourOS uses the Arch packages and the Arch kernel, there is nothing in EndeavoyrOS that could impact WiFi that would not be the same in Maeve Arch.

You must have tried EOS recently. They only just moved to Dracut. Most of my EndeavoyrOS machines pre-date that change and it does not force it on you when you update. It would still be possible to use an older installer to avoid Dracut I suppose.

I only have Dracut on one laptop actually. That machine boots super fast though and I was considering moving to Dracut elsewhere. Interesting to hear that it might be less stable. I will have to look into that now. Thanks for the heads up.

Did you read that they moved away from Manjaro? So pamac is not going to cut it. How does pamac help them on Fedora?

Many of the recommendations are to install EndeavourOS where your pamac instructions would work ( although pamac is not installed by default ).

In EndeavourOS, “yay -S syncterm” would work out-of-the box on a fresh EOS install. No need even to “enable the AUR”.

In my opinion, that is even simpler than what you are proposing for Manjaro. And since EOS uses real Arch packages, it is less likely to break or complain about package versions than Manjaro is.

I used to use Manjaro. It broke my system and I had many AUR problems. To my ears, Manjaro is bad advice. I am a happy EOS user for years now.

Uses exactly the Arch repos and kernel. EndeavourOS is more like an opinionated Arch install than a stand-alone distro. This is not a negative comment as I am an enthusiastic EndeavourOS user.

What kind of bugs are you running into? The original Waypipe proposal claimed that it was pushing less data than X. Let’s hope it gets faster in the future.

Most of the GTK environments seem to be doing fine. Most of them seem headed to Wayland as well with the maturity of GTK in Wayland making that easier. Cinnamon will be ready for Wayland in a few months with both XFCE and MATE likely to have something out next year.

Incredibly, GIMP itself may finally get off GTK+ 2. They claim that GIMP 3 will launch in February. We will see how long it takes to get to GTK4. I think the transition will be easier. The jump from 2 to 3 was a big one.

COSMIC of course is going its own way with the Iced toolkit.

On the app side, GTK seems to still be a very popular option.

In terms of conclusions, I do not see mainstream resistance to new GTK versions. Some people balked at GNOME 3 but GNOME today seems more popular than ever. MATE faithfully kept the old GNOME experience but has migrated to newer GTK. It was not a rebellion against the toolkit.

You can mount NTFS from Linux. You do not need anything from Linux to do it.

In theory, you could continue using NTFS. I would not. Get those files off to somewhere else and reformat with something Linux native.

Full Wayland support would be nice.

Obviously the version of Electron re-written in Rust would be Muon.

Can”t we just re-write Electron in Rust and then use it for everything else? /s