EndeavourOS (Mercury Neo, March 2025) Installer enhancements suggestions

[Andre_Gompel]

EndeavourOS (Mercury Neo, March 2025) Installer enhancements suggestions

1. Make ISo files EFI signed. (Koz Cannot Install on a system with secure boot enabled… and unable to disble it !)
2. On Manual Partitionning

• On menu, mark with a K(keep) or F(ormat) edited partitions (as in Current Debian Install )

• Allow WPS connection to the WIFI router (as Fedora, and more..)

• Add and enable by default the Bluetooth files one is missing (2 provided one 1 mising with MATE Desktop)

• MATE Desktop : during the install, enable netspeed with text by default for activity feedback (seems hanged when very slow network)

  • Allow partition to be installed at the beggining or end of a disk space, perhaps by allowing a preceding or ending space etc… (As in Debian Install)

• Update install progress every 10 or 20 seconds (koz installer seems hanged.)

• Consider installing gnome-software with proper defaults options (works great when fully manually installed which is difficult & tedious)

Thanks of the attention !

[keescase]

Suggestion why don’t you join the “club” of developers of EOS, they mght appreciate your help very much.

[UncleSpellbinder]

@Andre_Gompel

Make ISo files EFI signed. (Koz Cannot Install on a system with secure boot enabled… and unable to disble it !)

Endeavour (MATE Desktop) ISO file(s) are not EFI signed

It is not about signing the ISO. For a Linux system to be bootable with Secure Boot enabled, several things need to be signed: EFI bootlader binary, kernel images, kernel modules etc. I don’t think EOS has any plans to do so, as Arch which is the base of the OS doesn’t support Secure Boot either. If you have the possibility and know how to reset a password protected Bios, that is fine. If not, your choice of Linux systems supporting Secure Boot is limited.

[sempterobit]

I spent hours trying to install EOS a week or so ago, but failed at every attempt. The reason for the failures is almost embarrassing, (thought in my defense, I will say that this all occurred after I had worked a pretty hard ten hour day.) I failed to select the Nvidia option. The next day I tried again, and this time I made sure I selected the Nvidia option. Of course it installed with out a hick-up. So I guess the moral of this story could be; if the installer, in its initial stages, performed a simple check for a Nvidia gpu, and found one, it would deliver a message stating so. This would have saved me much frustration…

[dbarronoss]

Hah have to laugh, because we’ve all done things like this.
However, don’t you know you have an Nvidia GPU? (flip answer I know, maybe I should wonder why we get stuck in a repeated sequence of wrong actions, because having done it once…it’s far more likely in the future (maybe muscle memory))?

[joekamprad]

@Andre_Gompel

Make ISo files EFI signed. (Koz Cannot Install on a system with secure boot enabled… and unable to disble it !)

one day it will be possible, but currently simply not supported.

@Andre_Gompel

On menu, mark with a K(keep) or F(ormat) edited partitions (as in Current Debian Install )

good suggestion, may possible but would be something needs to get implemented into main calamares.

@Andre_Gompel

Allow WPS connection to the WIFI router (as Fedora, and more..)

should be possible with NetworkManager already.

@Andre_Gompel

Add and enable by default the Bluetooth files one is missing (2 provided one 1 mising with MATE Desktop)

https://discovery.endeavouros.com/audio/bluetooth/2021/03/

@Andre_Gompel

Allow partition to be installed at the beggining or end of a disk space, perhaps by allowing a preceding or ending space etc… (As in Debian Install)

possible already if you really need that you can create partitions outside installer using partitionmanager or gparted and cli tools.. you can set these to be used inside installer.
No clue if something like this can be added to the partition module easily.

@Andre_Gompel

Update install progress every 10 or 20 seconds (koz installer seems hanged.

simply click on the right side icon and change to view the life log directly inside installer:

@Andre_Gompel

Consider installing gnome-software with proper defaults options (works great when fully manually installed which is difficult & tedious)

No EndeavourOS only provides a basic Desktop install, we do not add ways to install Applications with Flatpaks or others. Thats up to the user to decide.

We keep things simple and as minimal as possible.

[rich52]

I reinstall my system occasionally using the latest installer. No real problems and the time it takes isn’t all too consuming. What consumes my time is installing all of the packages that I have on the system and it’s a real lot. Practice makes perfect and it keeps me on top of everything. . . also gives me more insights about what has changed with the installer and all of the packages I put on.

Rich

[sempterobit]

@rich52

What consumes my time is installing all of the packages that I have on the system and it’s a real lot.

Im sure you know about the custom packages file in home dir of a live EOS. At least you can install packages from the Arch repository during install.

[rich52]

First thing I use when I start to install packages. . . . . in ‘Welcome’ under ‘Add more apps’. . . choose popular apps to install. . . . I would make this much greater in size with many more categories and apps. . . .

Rich;)
Rich