I’m pretty sure the Disks tools is GNOME Disks, I’m not sure about what is that Archive Mounter (are you sure it’s not also GNOME Disks?), anyway, you can check by right-clicking it and going to “edit command”, that should show the real name of the application, then you can just install in on EndeavourOs XFCE (or any desktop environment you wish, in fact, Linux Mint XFCE also uses it).
On Arch based distributions that’d be “pacman -S gnome-disk-utility”
How long are you running Linux as a daily driver?
Probably longer than a Month…
He is one month on Linux, if he needs something done asap and somehting is broken beyond repair, what should he do? In the beginning you do stupid stuff so you need trainingwheels…
That doesn’t change the fact doing so will severely limit the speed at which you will learn and, in many cases, stops people from adopting Linux at all. There is a learning curve to some of the tools that requires some commitment.
From my experience, success in transitioning to Linux is much higher when you go all in from the start.
Constantly bouncing back to Windows will make Linux life harder across the board. Early success in Linux is partially about shifting your mindset.
If I use something and it isn’t relaible in the moment I need it to be 100% reliable, I am never using it again.
And in the beginning you don’t know what was your fault and what was Linux fault.
E.g. Linus from Linus tech tips installing steam. There was a bug in apt that deleted x-Server or Gnome. Of course apt told him that it was going to delete the entire graphical envrionment, but he didn’t know what it is and went ahead.
Then he sat in front of a black screen.
Now imagine you are sitting infront of that and have a paper due tomorrow. You will be glad, that you have a back up.
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And i recommend a second machine, because dualboot is complicated as well. Because if he deletes grub for some reason, windwos wont boot.
In both cases he will think linux destroyed everything and made him miss a deadline.
Well, that is some serious extremism and hopefully most people in the world don’t think like that.
Ultimately, everyone needs to make a personal decision about what works best for them. However, in my experience, the success of Linux use is much, much higher when you go “All in”. If that isn’t the right model for you, that is fine. There is no answer to anything that is right for everyone.
My experience comes from helping many people convert to Linux both on forums and in-person and I am sharing what I have seen work best. Yes, there can be some initial inconveniences tied to a complete switch to Linux but in the long-term you will get up to speed faster and have a greater chance of success.
I have an AMD+Nvidia hybrid laptop (which is both new hardware and has one of the most potentially painful GPU combinations) and yet installing the Nvidia drivers was a case of sudo pacman -S linux-headers nvidia-dkms . It works just fine with no additional/manual configuration needed.
So the OP’s Nvidia card is the 750 TI and is supported by the 470xx version drivers. So the install has to be with nouveau and then install the 470xx series from the AUR after the install correct? Because the nvidia-installer-dkms is not going to install the 470xx version right? It’s because the 700 series has been dropped from Nvidia support.
750 Ti is still supported by latest drivers which quick search through drivers on Nvidia page confirms. Kepler architecture is dropped to legacy branch and 750 ti is Maxwell. NVIDIA DRIVERS Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver
Install can be done in normal way, choosing first option during boot.
That’s what i want to confirm or not. That link shows that the 495xx drivers support the 750 TI but when i look it up it shows 470XX version. Not sure why it doesn’t show the 495xx then?
Edit: Irregardless which driver version it still can be installed.
I’ve found that my GPU has way better performance with the 470xx drivers rather than the 495xx ones anyway, at least in Linux Mint, so if I’m to install EndeavourOS with Nvidia, I’d probably rather use the 470 drivers if possible. (Though perhaps 495xx might perform a bit better on EOS, especially if paired with the Zen kernel through AKM…)
However, even despite the Nvidia drivers not being as hard to install as I expected, I might still wait for the AMD GPU to arrive first; it turns out the whole “GPU was actually an international shipment” thing was a scam attempt by someone impersonating the website, and my 580 is most certainly a local delivery and will arrive within this month (or early January if I’m unlucky), so I won’t have to wait too long, at least. ^^’
The main thing holding me back from switching is, I also have a new 4 TB HDD I wish to mount and make use of in my EOS installation, as my current secondary 1 TB HDD is dying with several bad sectors and needs to be replaced, and I’d rather directly install most of my stuff onto my HDD to spare my SSD from losing precious R/W cycles, plus being able to get started in directly installing everything I want without regard for insufficient space. However, my computer still has a really useful warranty period left, and unfortunately opening up will void it, so I’d have to take my computer to the store to have them install it for me without voiding the warranty… issue is, the store is on the other side of the city, and having to take it there twice (first to mount the HDD, then to mount the GPU) would be extremely inconvenient, especially given the streets here are really bumpy and taking the computer there too often would risk damaging some of its parts (particularly the HDD and loosen the RAM) from shocks, so I’d rather do it in one fell swoop.
Just to clarify, I’m actually female, not male, lol
And don’t worry, if I fail to adapt to EOS and realize it’s not the ideal distro for me, I’ll just flash Linux Mint onto my USB again and switch back. But I’m stubborn and don’t want to give up on it easily
Keep in mind that there are two branches. Production and new feature branch. Selecting later will show 49x driver, while production will remain at 47x.
Okay. I just wanted to clarify because i don’t understand the AUR 470xx drivers. Are they just for lower cards then? I just thought because it’s 700 series i wanted to clarify if the nvidia-installer-dkms would work?
Latest drivers will work on 750 TI, like on every other supported card.
470 drivers are there for other unsupported products, like GTX 780 TI for example or any other GTX 7x0 card, except for 750.