I slightly regret switching one of my development machines from Manjaro to EndeavourOS. At the time, I needed to test an app I was writing with ffmpeg v8.0 and Manjaro was not going to have that for quite some time. I tried the AUR package but it didn’t work and I had to back it out.

EndeavourOS is absolutely great. I literally am not aware of a single flaw in it. My regret, infinitesimal as it is, is based on being so close to upstream projects. I would far, far rather have a stabilized distro.

My Manjaro machine, for example, has a perfect KDE right now. My EndeavourOS requires directory renaming 2 to 4 times to get it to stick. I know that’s not EndeavourOS. It’s KDE but I vastly prefer a distro with some quality control.

Meanwhile, Manjaro turned into a dumpster fire so there’s no point going back. I do have one machine on Manjaro and it’s running fine, taking the extremely occasional update. I may go to Fedora LXQt spin but EndeavourOS is great, except for the Dolphin issue. They may have fixed it by now but I’m too scared to take any updates in case it gets worse.

No problem. I’m drifting away from flatpak, anyway. Anything that’s married to systemd is going to be a problem for an increasing number of people, over time.

Thanks. He has the core done. It could have saved me some time. I’m quite a bit further along with auto discovery and a couple of minor conveniences.

If I can get it to install with a UDEV rule so it runs at user privilege level, it’ll be all set and I’ll push it into the AUR.

Thank you. I really appreciate it, on both counts!