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I'm looking to build a new PC (for Baldurs Gate 3) and been heavily leaning on ditching Windows for Endeavour. Or OpenSuse or Rhino? Some easy to set up rolling release. Considering Arch based to sorta match my Steam Deck.
Glad to hear everyone raves about Endeavor.
Endeavor is fantastic. For all the time I ran it, I never had any of the issues that people say Arch is riddled with: updates irreparably mucking up your system, packages making a mess of things, the AUR being unstable and dangerous. I've found that most of these claims come from people who are against the way Arch does things and have never actually tried it for any extensive amount of time.
You do need to be mindful of updates being pushed to your system (read the newsletters, they will tell you if anything in the update is broken and how to fix it) and have the technical know-how of how to fix those things when they do happen... And they will happen. That's any rolling release, though.
Personally I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for gaming, it was a breeze to set up and continues to be a breeze to work with. I love every second of it. But EndeavorOS is a very close second for me.
Only significant issue that I've had with EndeavourOS/Arch is when I had a laptop with it installed and didn't update for like 6 months because I rarely needed it. When I went to do a full update, it really messed multiple things up. There were just too many massive changes at once. I just shrugged and reinstalled with the newest ISO, but if I had heavily customized it or something, I would have been pretty annoyed. Ever since then I usually install it with BTRFS and auto pacman snapshots.
Also, never perform partial upgrades unless you know what you are doing. That's apparently the fastest way to mess things up. I played with this before and it definitely will break things.
I certainly do recommend keeping a rolling release current.
That said, I have successfully fully upgrades several stale Arch systems. The biggest issue is the out of date GPG and keyring. Once you get through that, it is generally cake.
I actually think a lot of Arch’s bad rap comes from Manjaro. Manjaro actually does have all these problems and people attribute them to Manjaro being an Arch derivative.
heard Garuda is good for gaming, it's Arch based too
Idk much about other distros, but maybe try Pop OS first and see if you like it.
As I mentioned I've ran into really weird issues with steam because of some missing dependencies that are mentioned on page 49 of google search results.