[HowTo] Convert Manjaro to EndeavourOS

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Make Manjaro Great Again :cowboy_hat_face:

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Make Arch great again :slight_smile:

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This may be my new avatar.

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New?

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28 posts were split to a new topic: Manjaro to EndeavourOS experiences

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For some reason, I cannot download the EOS key (package signing key for the repos) from the keyserver as described in the HowTo.

Can someone please point me to the public key so I can import it manually?

(A manual search for the key on gnupg/sks didnā€™t result in anything)

EDIT:
you can use pacman-key -e [name/id of key]

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Iā€™ve updated the post to use a working keyserver. Otherwise, this should do it:

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Initially I converted my Manjaro setup to EndeavourOS by following this guide. It worked great. So I moved on to setup a fresh EndeavourOS Plasma installation two days ago.

It was the longest installation process ever on my laptop (ThinkPad X1E2). But the end result was surprisingly good. EndeavourOS fills many small holes in vanilla Arch KDE installation (I did that before). This saves a lot of my efforts and time to get my system to work as I want.

Now I have a setup which is as polished and easy to use as Manjaro, but keeps Archā€™s originality and freshness at the same time. It will replace Manjaro as my daily drive. :smile:

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The offline installation is very fast. The online installation would only be slow if:
a. Your Internet connection is slow.
b. You got connected to a slow mirror to download the software to be installed.

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The installation process actually opened a terminal and printed out messages. While it was hard to read on my 4K screen, I could still get some useful info. The slowness seemed due to EndeavourOSā€™ key server and mirror.

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The slowness was not due to Endeavourā€™s mirror. It only loads a few small packages from that. You were connected to a slow Arch Linux mirror.

About the keyserver, the main SKS keyserver pool has an expired SSL certificate. Use an alternate keyserver until this is resolved.

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Just a note here - in the live environment, before starting the install:

  1. open a terminal and type xfce4-display-settings OR (if you can see enough) open the menu, and fire up Settings/Display.
  2. Pick a resolution that lets you read what youā€™re doing (1920x1080 is sure to be there - something in between is probably good too)
  3. Proceed with whatever comes next! :grin:

Makes life much easierā€¦

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Thanks for your tip. If I need to reinstall, the experience will be much better.

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As you may have guessed - I run at 4k as well :grin: If you need any tips for getting things at their best, I have a wiki-style post I could point you atā€¦

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Please do, iā€™m also interested to see if thereā€™s something i missed :slight_smile:

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I made this up for posting as a wiki entry here, but had to wait for the server migration - so I practised up by posting it as a message elsewhereā€¦ This is it:
https://forum.garudalinux.in/t/how-to-handle-hi-res-screens/145

If thereā€™s anything I missed that youā€™re familiar with - Iā€™ll be glad to add it in!

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4 posts were split to a new topic: Grub font and Distro display question

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Nah, donā€™t bother refurbishing and redocorating someone elseā€™s house.

Build your own!

Smaller, more functional, and considerably less drafty.

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All I had to do was paint the front door and change the locksā€¦ :confused:

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