Hello Another refugee from Distro_Of_Month_Club_LOL :)

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I have been running EOS with KDE/Plasma desktop for about 5 days now.
Had some growing pains and actually stuck with EOS on the 4th install.
I was looking just one more distro that i could settle with for a while.

Came from Fedora, Opensuse, LinuxMint (which i like) MXlinux, and Manjaro but that never made it as it failed checksum in4 attempts.

I a EOD Noob and do see how the community is much more emgaged than most and even friendly! LOL!!

Looking forward to continuting and actually enjoying this Distro for a long while.

Since i have been here (i am not expert a mere student!) i have just searched the forum and found a solution to my printer driver problem (from the German forum!), Fix the Bluetooth issues with KDE, installed Timeshiift, updated the repos and system a few times. Kept a log of my changes with the Complete Idiost Guide (thats money!) and this is my post on my Shiney new EOS Kde system.

My laptop is an HP ELitebook 840 w i7, 16GB and 500GB SSD. I run a doc station at home and all working except the HDMI monitor off the doc. My external logi cam, sound and lan network are all good.

Thanks for reading and I look forward to more in the community!

Ciao for now :slight_smile:

Charlie C.
EOS / KDE student in training :slight_smile:

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Welcome @cmcacioppo
Seeing that you have come from some other linux distro’s I would think you have learned somethings along the way. Of course there’s more to learn and it never stops. :wink:

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Thanks @ricklinux ! If i tell you i hark back to original ATT SYSTEM V Unix when i work for the phone company and worked with Unix for years. DId a stint at Bell Labs and Lucent too. All Unix.
Been in the distro pool for 20 years. Believe me, i am still learning as a student, Thats what keeps me fresh. Best of Luck to you sir!

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Could be the dock, could be the cable depending on the cable spec or could be another issue.

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Welcome to the EndeavourOS forum. I hope you enjoy your time here.

Oh, a Unix brother. I started using Unix since about 1975 or 1976 as I worked for Western Electric (the manufacturing branch of AT&T) at the time.

Pudge

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Welcome, @cmcacioppo… Enjoy your stay with EOS and its community. They roll in unison along the Purple road. :wink:

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Well you probably got a lot more experience than i do. I had a lot of time with modems back in the day and dsl and now I’m on the Fibre Rocket. :rocketa_purple:

Edit: Once you land on EOS your refugee status is over!

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Welcome to the purple family, @cmcacioppo! :enos: :enos_flag:

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Yep - i remember WE as i am from NJ - WE in Newark! I worked at NJBell in Madison, NJ working on the DEC minicomputers and later 3b systems and VAXen

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Agreed! Its all relative when u are the new kid in town!! LOL! :slight_smile:

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Welcome the community! :enos: :enos_flag:

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Hi @cmcacioppo :fist_left: Nice to read how much you’re diggin’ Endeavour and the community here.
Keep on keepin’ on. :v:

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Welcome to the purple side :enos_flag: @cmcacioppo

Enjoy the purple ride :rocketa_purple:

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Welcome to the :enos: forum @cmcacioppo :enos_flag:

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Hi and welcome to the forum @cmcacioppo :wave:

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Welcome! It’s a pretty lively and friendly crew around here. Hope you have an enjoyable and educational journey. Cheers!

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Some noticeable group of Seniors with related technical experience, I see.

My introduction was via IBM360 and APL (dabbled in Fortran earlier)

Bravo EndeavourOS !

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Yes sir. Back in that day the Bell company i worked for had 370s and dasd and tape for miles !! LOL!

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So to close this issue, out, i replaced the HDMI cable w new, high speed one. NADA. Replaced no name doc with a real ANKER 13 in 1 doc. It works! Laptop screen can happily mirror to external 4k monitor off doc and now i can start my laptop direct to the screen on doc from cold startup!

I knew it was the doc since i never really worked well but did function.

This doc is far and away, much better.

Loving EOS / KDE for over a week now.

best regards!

Charlie c

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