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After my terrible experience with EndeavourOS and its atrocious community I'm distro hopping again. Currently having a bad time with Gnome Nobara, might try the KDE version but I do prefer something that doesn't require a reinstallation or complicated upgrade methods. Would be great it rolling distros wouldn't just self destruct though. Maybe I give OpenSUSE Tumbleweed a chance. I heard it is supposedly more stable.
What bad experience did you have with Endeavour and its community?
Well, the latest GRUB update bricked itself, not just for me but also others. I asked for help in their forums, as I am too stupid to chroot into encrypted btrfs filesystems, since the guides expect you to actually know what you're doing if you don't have a standard setup. A few community members then decided to troll & insult me and turn my support thread into a flame war instead. At the end a moderator closed it and removed pretty much everything to hide it away and said I should open another thread if I still wanted help. He sort of reprimanded them very slightly verbally but I don't think he took any actual action, so I decided that I don't want any more "help" and left.
The big irony of this case is also that the whole shit talking comes from the same people who constantly cry about Manjaro, but that thing ran for longer, with less issues and didn't actually suicided itself. I just switched myself because I wanted to change the file system and thought I'd try the highly praised EndeavourOS.
For OpenSUSE I'd need a bigger USB stick though, as I don't want to use the network image.