... and I absolutely love it.
After my previous post where I asked for advice on distros I have tried Mint and EndeavourOS first as VM's and afterwards I gave them their own partition and tried it on my real hardware.
Something about EndeavourOS just sat right though and I promptly replaced my windows install with it. KDE Plasma also blows me away with the amount of customisation that is possible.
I've spent some time configuring today but mostly aesthetic stuff as my hardware worked 95% out of the box. Some odd dependencies were missing for steam to work properly but I'm really not missing anything that windows had right now.
I'm curious how my uni workflow will look like now, but I'm sure I can make it work.
Thanks a lot for the support and advice you've given me. I really love the community on here.
I'll get back to customising my bash prompt now. 😄
Edit: Due to popular demand:
I use Arch, btw.
I don't use Endeavor or Arch (btw), but KDE Plasma is amazing. I'd probably be happy with any distro as long as it supported plasma.
EndeavourOS is very solid, surprised that it isn't more popular.
Yes, I was also very surprised. The userbase is surprisingly small, even though it runs quite well.
But if I wasn't into IT, I'd probably have run into issues that I wouldn't be able to fix. Just little things like proper directory permissions, ownership and such.
Well, EndeavourOS is just easy to install Arch. It is going to run as well as Arch runs ( pretty well ).
Arch tends to scare away novice users or those lacking in confidence and so EndeavourOS does too. If you are confident or elitist enough to be attracted to Arch, EndeavourOS may feel like a cop out. Or, you might believe that Arch is already easy enough to install ( especially now ).
I happen to think that EndeavourOS rocks. Welcome to the club. I hope you continue to enjoy it.
Since EndeavourOS is only just over a dozen packages on top of Arch, it would be a challenge to find documentation for Arch that does not also apply to EndeavourOS as well ( beyond the initial install ).
The only EndeavourOS specific issue I can think of is that you may need to update the EndevourOS-keyring package before doing a system update if it has been a really long time since the last one. This would be when you have to update the archlinux-keyring package as well so even then the Arch docs get you most of the way there.
The lack of documentation is an issue, but in my experience the Arch wiki is good enough source for troubleshooting EndeavorOS issues.
You mentioned customizing your bash prompt, I recommend checking out OhMyBash. https://github.com/ohmybash/oh-my-bash.
Alternatively, zsh is also good, and a little bit more modern. I still haven't found a solution that uses modern keyboard shortcuts and text entry functions. Even zsh things like shift+arrows and ctrl+arrows are an after market hack.
I've heard of it but never checked it out. It will be worth a check at least.
In case you're interested I've tried out a few things and kinda settled on fish, but will still use bash for scripting.
I've been using endeavouros for about a year now, and if things stay as they are I'll never be switching. Like you said it just sits right for some reason. Easy installed and everything just works, all my games run great on it as well. I use the zen kernel but I dont think its mandatory.
Biggest advice I can give is set up timeshift....like now. Its a huge safety net and will let you play with things with out worrying
Thanks for the advice. I'll definitely check it out. I've killed my Raspberry Pi twice due to bash typos, so with this being my main system I want to be extra careful.
I've never tried EndeavourOS as it always seems a bit pointless now archinstall exists.
Fair point. For me using a distro dedicated to making Arch accessible just is more attractive than having an installer and being on my own afterwards.
But yeah, EndeavourOS is pretty much just an installer with purple space theming.
Also, the community around a distro makes a difference. I don't think that the EndeavourOS community has quite the lofty expectations of its users that Arch users do, so getting help might be a bit more pleasant.
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.
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.
A major difference is Manjaro has its own repos which has a tendency to break AUR packages, while EndeavourOS uses the normal Arch repos. Endeavour is pretty much just pre-configured Arch so it bypasses a lot of the issues with security and stability that Manhjaro suffers from.
IMO I still think people should just use vanilla Arch so they can customize everything to the fullest but EndeavourOS is a decent option.
I think EndeavourOS profits greatly from being so close to Arch, because right now every fix that worked for an Arch user also worked for me.
Oh nice! I like Arch because of AUR, but I'm too lazy to go through the setup again, so I'll definitely try this.
Looking at that script, most of it is just changing what the OS reports itself to be and what themes to use. Of course, it also removes the EndeavourOS specific repo and mirror-list. Still, this script is a pretty good illustration of how little difference there is between EndeavourOS and Arch once installed.
That was part of my reason for linking it, and also why I put "convert" in quotes. It really is just Arch pre-configured and with some themes and some extra utilities.
I actually didn't know they had their own repo until I took a look yesterday and not only is it tiny but it seems to be mostly themes, configs, and/or tools. I don't think they even have alt versions of existing packages, just additions.
More like purple Arch, but you don’t have to mess with your date/time because the certificates don’t break, and you can install stuff from the AUR without worrying about breaking your system.
Hint: check out the magic of dotfiles on GitHub. If you enjoy customizing your Bash prompt, they’ll be right up your alley.
for what reason, though? the sandboxing doesn't carry to steam installed games, does it? only steam itself is sandboxed afaik
I had a steam dependency on my system break or get uninstalled somehow. It was giving me headaches for a bit because steam wasn't launching and had a pretty vague error when launched from CLI. I imagine using a flatpak version would circumvent a lot of those problems because of the sandboxing
