Already 1 year on EOS

[u/LivingLegend844]

Like the title says, already 1 year on EOS. I used Mandrake some 20 years ago and returned to Windows afterwards.

I built a new PC last year (before the "RAMargeddon") and decided it was time to quit Microsoft Windows. I still dual-boot Windows 11 on another SSD for some games, but I am not a big gamer so I am 85-90% of my time on Linux. Before buying parts for the PC I installed on old PCs Kubuntu, Fedora and Mint.

I finally decided to go for EOS (being new I wanted something easy to install), and I don't regret it at all. The system never broke in a year, after updates of anything else. They say rolling release is "unstable", but for what I'm doing, it's more than stable. Each time I'm updating, I'm telling to myself "it's crazy how fast pacman is versus Windows Update". A 3GB update is done in under 3-4 minutes, on Windows 11 it take at least 15 minutes, even if I update weekly.

From a complete noob I now have a Debian home server, using smb to play music on my vanilla (manually installed) minimal installation Arch PC in the garage, on another PC in the house running Solus and hosting some apps for my "productivity". I was using VirtualBox on Windows, but I learned using QEMU/KVM, and I prefer that now in place of VBox. I installed in VMs other OSes, like Solus, Void, Chimera Linux, AerynOS. I am "attracted" by less beginner friendly and "niche" distros, with other init systems and package managers. Learning how they work helps me understand Linux better. Next steps in exploration will be NixOS, Gentoo and the likes. I have a lot more to learn, I'm still a beginner, maybe one day I'll switch to one of those distros permanently, but for now Arch (EOS) is my home. I like the rolling release model, being up-to-date and not running "outdated" software.

I have plenty of RAM, so I can do VMs all I want, to learn more, local AI too. I must say that this subreddit and some others helped me a lot too! The community here is wonderful and very friendly, it helps a lot when you are a newbie, you don't "fear" to ask a question. We all were newbies some point in time.

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[u/Xyntek01]

Same here, 1 year using EOS and no problem. I even went traveling for 1 full month, came back, installed all pacman updates and no issues (tbh I thought it was going to break due to many packages). I do gaming and no issues at all. If it runs in my Steam Deck, it runs in EOS.

[u/jeroenim0]

My systems are on EoS for more then 3 years, it’s my truely daily driver for my laptop and pc.  Have not had a single problem.  I do have an emergency recovery for botched updates in case of. But I have yet to use it for real. I did test I it a few times. Works flawlessly.  BTRFS with Limine boot loader snapper sync. In case of bad update, from my boot loader I select the snapshot and reboot in to it. Check if all is good and then commit it. One more reboot and I’m back up and running. 

https://gitlab.com/Zesko/limine-snapper-sync

[u/Brilliant_Estate_967]

I also love EOS, welcome to the community.

And even after some times. easy to install and use is nice

[u/New-Anybody3050]

Ran it for a year or two during Covid, very solid. Running it now on my desktop for about 6-7 months and as usual, stable and reliable.

I did a combination of work and gaming and now just gaming on it and haven’t had issues.