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EndeavourOS club! Gorgeous blend between granular control and reasonably configured initial guardrails for a willing-to-learn new Arch user.
I played around with other distros too, before settling into this one. Havenโt looked back after 2-3 years of use.
Welcome to your GNU/Linux jounery.
Before you distro hop again, take your time exploring the os and terminal it will make installing the real arch linux easier.
EndeavourOS is the real Arch, with some additional repos and some sensible defaults.
No hoping needed anymore once you landed on a Arch base!
I agree, but I must say that with the Archinstall script it's a breeze nowadays.
I've been hopping between different distros since 2023, but every time I come back to EndeavourOS, this distro seems to work the best for me, haven't had any problems with this distro.
Don't hate on pop. They have done nothing wrong, at most it didnt sit you right
Absolutely agree, edited post. Was meant as a joke, clearly wasn't in good taste and I apologize. It's pretty solid, just not for me.
I appreciate the edit ๐
That's amazing! Why shit on Pop!_OS though? I've always liked it. I think it's definitely more stable than Arch in the long term
Honestly, it seems really stable and works great, I just hate how...hand holdy it felt for me personally. I think the emoji was a little over the top. My apologies, haha. It's totally fine for what it is, and if it works for you, that's fantastic!
yeah; I also use Pop!_OS and like it. I'm curious about the reasoning here
I don't think I've really seen it hated on much
You can't say you use Arch unless you use Arch. Also, you are also saying it all wrong. It's "I use Arch, BTW" not "BTW, I use Arch". You would know that if you used Arch. Have I mentioned I use Arch, BTW?
EndeavourOS is great. It's as bare as you can get without opting for straight Arch. I bit the bullet on vanilla Arch a couple weeks ago, though, and am amazed at how easy it is to set up now.
Bonus: I can follow the Arch Wiki word for word without having to cross check things.
But I loved my time with EOS. I would probably still be using it if I hadn't decided to fuck around with topgrade while having no idea what I was doing. The lesson of the day was just update normally... its built in for a reason.
Edit: Look up Timeshift and ALWAYS back up personal files to external. There's a reason Arch is notorious for being unstable. Sometimes just an update can bork everything (still very rare, though).
helpful if you want to install arch without endeavor โ Archfi and Archdi - Two bash scripts for Arch Linux Installation by OldTechBloke
somebody on lemmy regularly posted videos of OldTechBloke while they're archiving the channel on peertube.
DistroTube has a similar project going as well, DTOS. I'm not sure if it's actually up and available but it looks promising for a similar target audience. https://youtu.be/FA__ScVhGQA
Interesting. I made the equivalent of this for installing Arch on raspberry pi 5. Maybe I should make them public.
Clicked in this post because of the wallpaper.
Stayed here for the polemic.
Searching the wallpaper, now.
in case you haven't found it yet 
I've been using EndeavourOS for awhile now and it's really good. Everything more or less just works.
Yea im about to switch myself. Been looking at suggestions and stuff, probably gonna start with Mint myself.
Many different sources advise putting it on a flashdrive first and loading from there, to start. Make sure I like it.
But the end goal, eventually, would be to remove windows from the comp entirely, right? Eventually installing my chosen distro as the OS on the computer itself? Does that sound about right?
For me, I've been throwing distros on a spare SSD so I could test run in a proper install, but I'm sure a thumbdrive would be fine. Just keep in mind that you might get some hangs and things will be slower due to the speed of the drive, rather than the inefficiencies of the OS you end up on. If you want to test out specific programs or games or something, you can always do what I did and put them on a separate faster storage drive (I'm on SATA SSD for my OS right now, but am putting other things on NVME).
As I mentioned elsewhere, I still have my Windows on another drive so I can boot to it if I need to, but I honestly haven't needed to even once since switching, so I'll probably end up just switching to VM only for anything that requires Windows fairly soon here.
The transition has been much simpler and smoother than I ever had imagined.
I test-ran EndeavourOS for a future PC and like it. I am a Steam gamer though, so my work's cut out for me in getting it to work on whatever hardware I choose.
Steam works absolutely perfectly on EndeavourOS. No tweaking or anything required, just install and run. It also runs just about any game I ever tried, with troubleshooting as easy as choosing a different version of Proton from the dropdown.
Can confirm EOS works beautifully with Steam and has done for all the years I've used it.
Another confirmation that Endeavour is great with Steam. However I did have to follow the Arch wiki to install the correct Mesa drivers on my new PC (Radeon RX 7800 XT), as without those the GPU performance was crap.
Great news! I tested with a VM and no GPU except iGPU, apparently my issue may have been no Vulkan support. I'll need a new machine to fully explore it
You just have to install steam, haha. I got CS2 up and running in 10 minutes ๐
If you were a non-steam gamer you'd have a little extra work cut out for you, but steam literally runs natively
Welcome aboard, I also first started with beginners friendly distro (around 1 years ago), Fedora is my first ever distro then I started distro hopping and landed on vanilla Arch, that's what I'm stick with until now
I've always sworn by Arch builds. Built one up from scratch back in college ten years ago, and this past winter I decided I wanted to try a linux box again. After a bit of distro hopping I settled on CachyOS, but Endeavor caught my eye too.
Shit breaks, but fixing it is a learning experience. Small price to pay in exchange for the customization it offers.
Shit breaks but when it does there is a well documented wiki to help you fix it rather than multitude of vaguely related ubuntu forum posts
Ugh I still run Ubuntu LTS on my living room HTPC, and generally it's fine. But on the occasion I need to fix something, I swear every seemingly relevant forum post is from 2015 or earlier. It's maddening.
