I’ve been an on-and-off Linux user for more than 20 years. I started with Debian way back in the day. Moved through quite a few distros in my time. Ubuntu (and it’s derivatives), Fedora, openSUSE, Arch, and several others. But I gotta say… EndeavourOS has been one of the best experiences I’ve had in my distro-hopping journey. I did love Arch itself, but I still felt that something was missing. Apparently that was EndeavourOS. Seems I’ve found a home here. And I couldn’t be happier.
Thanks to the EndeavourOS devs for such a great install experience. Detecting my wireless out-of-the-box was a pleasant surprise. And of course, thanks to Arch devs as well.
Hello!
May you continue to have the best of good experience with this wonderful free software!
Nice to see another Macintosh going with Linux
I started in around 1998 with a Power Macintosh 6500/250, running LinuxPPC.
Looking forward to read about your computing adventures
Take care!
I agree. I also had a similar journey although I didn’t love Arch the way I do EOS. I did like Arco linux too in the beginning but I found their website to be just too difficult to take. I was on Antergos before i ever knew anything about Arch and then moved to EOS. In between i familiarized myself with Arch by installing it the hard way. Since EOS I’ve never looked back. Not interested in distro hopping anymore although I do still like to try the odd distro to see how they compare.
Same. I like to see what other distros are up to and how they compare as well. My laptop usually serves as my test machine as I prefer to test distros on bare metal as opposed to a VM.
My daily driver on my main PC since before this 17 month old thread has been EndeavourOS and I have never felt a need to change that.
Same here. I’m sticking with EOS, especially after having been confronted with W11.
Last week my EOS laptop needed to be repaired under warranty. The technicians needed to be able to log in. Choice I had: either I remove my password, or they would wipe everything by installing a Windows image.
I chose the latter.
When I got my laptop back, W11 was on it, and ready to be configured for use.
I decided to see what that process and what W11 looked like.
That was a great way to be reminded what I appreciate about Linux and Linux OS’s.
During the W11 install and configuration I was mainly telling the system what NOT to install, what NOT to configure, what permissions NOT to allow; NOT to connect to online services; and then there were things I could not tell it NOT to do even though I would have liked to not have it done those either.
And even then I ended up with a system with a whole bunch of features I did not want; I tried to remove these by hand and discovered that some things could simply not be removed.
I played around with W11 for a bit, and soon got very irritated by the pop ups telling me to install GREAT stuff, or to turn on “OUR BEST VERSION YET” of X or Y, not to forget the discount period for this or that.
I truly was stunned by the experience.
So I dd’d the newest EOS ISO on a stick, stuck it in, started the install process, choose what to have installed and was up and running within 10 minutes with a system just as I wanted it.
Couldn’t be happier with EOS.
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-Forum!
its still old and 