I installed Endeavour OS last night and am really happy with it so far, a huge thank you to everyone contributing!
I was wondering:
Right now the eos-welcome tool has a small header informing about software news. It suggests clicking on the corresponding button leading to the Endeavour OS Linux News.
While that is quite helpful, I was really irritated when the header was still shown after having clicked on the button.
Is there an option to hide the header when the button was clicked and unhide it, once there are news?
Or if that is to much work, just to hide the header?
Hiding the header would certainly be easier, but may mean that you miss the news, and it would the same if the news were moved to a different tab/page.
So your initial request is technically the best option, but requires more work.
Let’s see what the devs say.
I second this comment, was looking at Manjaro and due to its I various basic issues, gave Endeavour a try. You have won a client! Please keep up the great
Seriously, I’m not really bashing Manjaro. I don’t particularly like it personally, but it’s not a bad choice for a distro as long as you understand it.
The big issue for me is Phil. He’s money-hungry (IMO). He has a history of making decisions that put money in his pocket over user preferences (i.e., making deals with companies to package their software as defaults) - though he usually backs off when the user base complains.
I used Manjaro in 2015-2016 as my daily driver, then I switched to Arch (though I kept Manjaro as a secondary distro until around 2019). It’s a pretty solid and robust distro overall, but using the AUR can cause issues due to Manjaro holding back updates (which they deliver as large update packages) for weeks…those potential AUR problems are not insurmountable but can be seriously annoying/problematic for users who don’t understand the situation.
How about EOS team does something similar? While installing the EOS calamares installer gives the option to users to install 3rd party software and make it the default. If a user wants he can decline and go with the other defaults or accepts it. For every user who accepts the 3rd party, EOS team earns a commission. That way EOS team can keep the lights on and maybe just maybe hire additional devs and mods.
Sorry, please NO!
If you start with this, one day a vendor of such 3rd party software forces the devs that the users will not be allowed to decline this any more. I love to have this distribution independent.
It was just a suggestion. There needs to be greenbacks/Mr Benjamin spent so as to keep the lights on. Just wanted to put EOS team and devs on the firmer financial footing.
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Please keep up the great
