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)?
Yes, as long as you maintain it.
Nothing in EndeavourOS really “just works”. You have to install and configure the stuff you need.
Idk, upgrading to Plasma 6 + Wayland was as simple as waiting for yay to do its thing and rebooting. 10 minutes and it just works. No configuration.
I mean… by that standard nothing “just works” ever. Anything that needs access to your WiFi, or file system, or your online accounts — it will need a minimum of configuration even if that’s clicking a button to give it internet privileges or filling in a password.
I’ve used Endeavour for a couple of years now, and it’s not like the apps need more configuration than any other distro I’ve tried.