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So I installed EndeavourOS ... (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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... 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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Plasma doesn't just work on any distro? Does it have specific requirements?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I guess it might not be available in all repositories. I can't think of one where it definitely isn't though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't work on Guix, or at least isn't in the repos and didn't work at all some time ago. Something to do with the way Plasma expects the files stem to be versus how Guix implements it. Nix makes it work so it must be possible, not sure whether anyone's bothered to port it over yet though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, that's quite interesting. It most certainly works on NixOS, considering there is a live KDE option, so why it doesn't work on Guix is mystery for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Some distros are more oriented toward another DE. You can always install KDE, but you may be stuck having to mix and match it with GTK stuff from your distro itself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My understanding is that a good desktop environment experience also relies on distro maintainers packaging things in a timely manner, et cetera.