My initial impression of EndeavourOS/i3wm was a sour one. Now that I have installed it on two machines, my positive impression of it, this time around, has moderated. I may uninstall and go the tortuous route, installing Archlinux directly. Not yet, but perhaps...
I could not do better in expressing my chief complain than another user (anonymous, I fear), who wrote a comment to a thread about i3WM on Endeavour.OS In effect, this user remarked "It seemed more like one person's favorite custom install than a generally useful one." Hear hear!! Another user remarked that a seasoned i3wm user would find the customizations of the EndeavourOS tweak to i3wm, in effect, difficult to use.
Other users pointed out that during the install an obscure checkbox allows one to skip EndeavourOS (EOS) customizations. After installation is not a favorable time to learn about this, and it warns me against ever reinstalling this OS.
The OS is slick. Too slick for i3wm. Even the login screen is over the top, IMHO.
Another suggestion was to delete the directory ~/.config/i3 completely.
What I have done is copy over, mostly, my config file from Manjaro.
Now I will mention the one thing that EndeavourOS does that works better for me, as I did in my last post: it used Archlinux repos out of the box. Manjaro has taken pains to filter the repos so that they seem to able to go out of date, as I believe happened to me.
I can see no need to continue to flog this dead horse. I will continue to use it until I find time to install something else, probably Arch.
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