I am a Finn who just yesterday found this wonderful distro. I am using it on an old Acer Aspire V5 laptop with touchscreen and on LXDE desktop. I used Arch long time ago and then installed it manually and ended using XFCE then. I decided couple of days ago that it was time to dust off this old computer and install light system, so it was naturally Arch Linux. I remembered how long and sometimes tedious task it was to install it manually, so I decided to seek something that would come with installer and found this nice distro. I first tried XFCE, but it was little bit too heavy for my old laptop, so I switched to LXDE. Thus far I like it a lot! It runs quite a nice even on my 1.0 GHz processor, although I had to replace Firefox with Chromium because it seemed to be too hungry for resources.
Welcome @Dinomonster from the happiest country in the World.
Looks like we need to spread the word more. I thought you would have heard of EOS by now. How did you come to find it?
Thanks! If I remember correctly, first time I heard about it was when I saw an article about in computer-magazine MikroBitti. Back then it did not get me to install it, I somehow thought it was KDE only (which is good desktop, by the way) so it was out of the league of my two old laptops.
When I started my Arch operation this week I was going to install pure Arch, but because of somewhat unclear and sometimes misguiding instructions I was not able to get forward on installation but always had something to get on the way.
I started then looking for Arch distributions that would come with graphical install, but would have low requirements and without too much software. I stumbled to Endeavour OS and then read about it on Distrowatch and decided to give it a try and here I am now.
Hey! Good to have you with us, - I feel there’s a deeper story behind this switch, - would love to know how you discovered Linux, more so from being from Finland, the birthplace…
Hi! I think my first contact with the Linux was when there was an article on computer-magazine about Knoppix and it got my attention. I did not know anything about Unix but it started to interest me. I eventually decided to burn it to cd with my trusty Nero. I think something went wrong, because it never worked correctly, even though Knoppix should have support for almost anything. This was of course in the early 2000s and live systems were not as sophisticated as they are now, so it could be also that.
Then there were some years that I stayed away from Linux, but I think I had got incurable desire for Linux desktop that I could actually use. Then Ubuntu broke through and boy I was hyped to get my hands on that. I had recently got a laptop running Windows Vista and although I liked to play games and stuff with it I wanted to have something different, so one day I downloaded Ubuntu live-image, burned it to CD and eventually installed it to my Toshiba. Although I liked system a lot (I still have soft spot for Ubuntu and Debian) it did not work quite well on my laptop; First of all it had Realtek chip for WiFi and everyone who has meddled with Linux knows what pain that can be. Secondly, Ubuntu was not as polished it was now and it had problems with my graphics card and thus suspend and hibernate caused black screens with no way out.
I installed and uninstalled Ubuntu and Vista many times and although there were times when I used mainly Windows I always kept my eye on Ubuntu and Linux in general and read many articles about comparisons between distros. I also tried different systems like OpenSuse, Fedora, Puppy and ArchBang (and it’s successor BunsenLabs) but never ventured into Gentoo; it seemed too deep end even for me.
I eventually decided to try Arch because I had heard that it was flexible and customisable distros and I had also not tried it before. First install was, well to put it nicely, exiting at least. I read instructions from my phone while trying to get all commands right and I think I had to do install at least twice. It was rewarding however and it got me liking Arch because it’s commands on terminal were much more simpler than in Debian and I was able to decide exatly what I wanted on desktop environment.
When I stumbled to EndeavourOS I liked it immediately. It seemed to be distro I had been lookin for a long time and thus far it seems indeed to be it. I think that on one day I am going to install it with KDE on my gaming laptop and use it as my main operating system there. I want to get used to EndeavourOS first and learn it’s tricks before jumping in to Linux wagon for good.
So it could be said that in both ways I found Linux but also it found me. I like it’s core ideas about freedom and free to use -policies and I think it is important to be able to have usable operating system even on places where resources are limited. I personally think that Linux is answer to that. I also like that there are programs that have bounced themselves from Unix to Windows and are now usable on there. For example LibreOffice is my favorite office-suite (and I eventually got my wife to use it too; she prefers it to Microsoft Office because you can get better layouts for user-interface) and I use it nowadays on my Windows laptop also.
So there you have it, my story on how I ended using EndeavourOS.
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Enjoy the purple ride 
