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Colonel Panic · 2026-04-28 12:17:32

I'm currently trying out Lite 8.0 RC, and so far it all looks OK although a bit bland (though of course that's easily changed). They've gone for the increasingly common idea of listing programs in the menu by their function instead of by their name (so web browser, image editor, mail client etc.).

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Colonel Panic · 2026-04-30 17:31:32

I;ve just updated Endeavour Ganymede, and it's definitely not one for slow connections - 1734 MB download in total. All went well though.

PackRat · 2026-04-30 18:32:19

^ Did you see what was updated?

If you haven't run an update in a while, you got the full plasma desktop update and linux kernel 7.x in one upgrade.

Not so much specific to EndeavourOS; all Arch-based with plasma desktop would get those updates.

DeepDayze · 2026-04-30 18:51:56

I've heard kernel 7.0 is quite the seismic shift and it is in Debian Experimental right now plus there's new nvidia driver builds that will build on it. Going to try building it on Stable to test it.

As for Arch there's all the latest goodies!

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Colonel Panic · Yesterday 09:25:22

PackRat wrote:

^ Did you see what was updated?
If you haven't run an update in a while, you got the full plasma desktop update and linux kernel 7.x in one upgrade.
Not so much specific to EndeavourOS; all Arch-based with plasma desktop would get those updates.

No I didn't. I took a chance and just went with pacman -Syu (maybe I should have learnt from my mistake with ArchBang before I joined this forum, when I did the same thing and borked the whole system; but it seemed to work out OK).

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chroot · Yesterday 13:18:46

Colonel Panic wrote:

PackRat wrote:
^ Did you see what was updated?
If you haven't run an update in a while, you got the full plasma desktop update and linux kernel 7.x in one upgrade.
Not so much specific to EndeavourOS; all Arch-based with plasma desktop would get those updates.
No I didn't. I took a chance and just went with pacman -Syu (maybe I should have learnt from my mistake with ArchBang before I joined this forum, when I did the same thing and borked the whole system; but it seemed to work out OK).

So you gave up Archbang and switched to EOS?

Colonel Panic · Yesterday 20:05:42

Tha ks for replying.

A bit more complicated than that I gave up having anything to do with any Arch=related distros for some time (literally years) after that disaster, but eventually found my way to Manjaro and (eventually) to Endeavour as well.

ArchBang was a good distro for its time but the devs did tend to assume that you knew what you were doing in Arch (which I didn't) and especially that you would know not to try to update everything at once (ditto). It was very lightweight for the time; I remember that after I installed Fvwm-Crystal in it, which suited it, it worked well even in 512 MB of RAM.

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hhh · Today 02:05:46

Colonel Panic wrote:

ArchBang was a good distro for its time but the devs did tend to assume that you knew what you were doing in Arch (which I didn't) and especially that you would know not to try to update everything at once (ditto).

What the hell are you talking about? You do update Arch all at once, no matter the derivative. You just have to research and update it every freaking day...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … the_system

By the way, I use ArchWiki.

Döbbie03 · Today 02:47:25

Colonel Panic wrote:

ArchBang was a good distro for its time but the devs did tend to assume that you knew what you were doing in Arch.

Sort of comes with the territory being an Arch based distro

Colonel Panic wrote:

that you would know not to try to update everything at once

You never do partial upgrades on an Arch system. You're in for a bad time if you do.

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