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I downloaded ISO with magnet and I searched GPG sig file for a hour. You can place a GPG sig file near torrent and magnet links.
Think:
I downloaded ISO with magnet.
But I have to download GPG sig file from Germany for example.
This is a little weird.

Also all Sha512sum and GPG sig file are same. Why there is Sha512sum and GPG sig files for all servers? I know it is downloaded from different servers, but I think this seems complicated too. Just a few bytes. Even someone with the worst internet connection can download it from a far server in seconds.

+I live in a place with heavy internet restrictions. Your site’s images are not loading and look terrible. This can give users a bad experience and preview. I know It’s not your fault but can’t you change image providers etc. idk.

+I know this suggestion is not for website but there is no subforum for this:
Can’t you release ISOs more often? With the new kernel updates, my Wi-Fi adapter is officially supported. However, since your ISO comes with an old kernel version, I cannot use Wi-Fi.
I have to use USB tethering for online installation. After the installation my adapter will work but I have to use Reflector again. This is not so comfortable.

Thanks for your efforts :+1:

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Many people live in geographies where traffic to other countries is not allowed. Distributing it to all the mirrors ensures everyone can access the files. It also ensures there is redundancy in case one server or mirror is offline.

I am not sure I understand what we could do about this. Wouldn’t changing providers just make it better for you but worse for someone else? Even if we switched to CDN, some places block CDN providers too.

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I have installed many popular distributions so far. This is the first time I have experienced something like this. To be honest download page is really weird.

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Any web page built using images is going to look pretty weird w/o images displayed.

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The only “weird” thing is indeed that there is no link directly under the buttons for the check-files.
we can add them there too as links so it will be less confusing.

The servers are mirrors, they are all holding the same files. Not only ISOs also packages.
And indeed you can always discuss design… We have no dedicated design team, it’s how it is simple to handle and working.

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Sorry my English is not native so I can make mistakes sometimes. More like “interesting”.

+Actually your ISO file is not that old. But maybe you can release ISO every month like Arch.

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we do release a rebuild weekly already: https://github.com/endeavouros-team/Weekly-ISO-Rebuilds/releases

Real releases will get released when ready, not by schedules. :face_savoring_food:

Added signature link to the page, but we had the shasum already provided before there, see this marked part it links to all needed info on checking the ISO file:

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So, does this mean your Wifi adapter worked?
And once the system is installed and you have your WiFi working, how often do you have the need to do a fresh install, in your case, with a heavily restricted internet connection? I mean, you are running a system on a rolling release, right?

Don’t get me wrong, I understand your frustrations you had installing the system, but we are a team of five people, with jobs alongside, who are living in countries without these restrictions. It is quite a task to please the whole world, connection-wise, like @dalto already mentioned.

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Has never been weird in my view. It provides what’s needed and has been for the last 5+ years. :person_shrugging:

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I agree completely. I see nothing “weird” in any way. :thinking:

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Minor QoL improvement suggestion.
When I download Debian and write to USB via ISO Image Writer (on arch) it does ask for SHA256SUMS then verify directly from the GUI, but no such option for EOS. For EOS it shows a “🛇” sign i.e. you can’t check SHA256SUMS from ISO Image Writer.
IDK how it is done…information embedded to the iso file !? :thinking: Can it be done for EOS?

Of course you can do it from your FileManager or other tools but that’s not my question.

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That is something to be taken up with the development of isoimagewriter itself.

See ex:

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I don’t understand the reason behind such specific distro list. :man_shrugging: Why not just calculate SHA256 or SHA512 for any .iso file and let the user verify it !? Anyways upstream issue. Thankyou for the info.

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Can you share a screenshot of what your seeing so we can see how your page renders?

Additional what web browser are you using and what build?

By any chance are you using TOR?

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Heretic question: Why make checksum verify so complicated?

Even I am tempted to skip it, because it requires too many steps. Not a good thing, security-wise.

Currently, we have to:

  • Click on the link.
  • We’re beamed to another part of the page. We have to click another link.
  • This link will prompt a download of the .sha512sum file.
  • Firefox (in my case) prompts where to save it.
  • We then have to navigate there and open it using an editor (or cat).
  • We then can execute the actual sha512sum and verify.
  • Phew!

Could the current sha512sum not simply be displayed on the web page?

Hint: Maybe it’s just a badly set MIME type on the web server. We could save several steps if the browser would display a raw text file when clicking the link. Like Mint does, both for the sha sum and the GPG key (look for the “buttons” under “Integrity and Authenticity”).

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Good to know I will try this.

I don’t intend to disparage your distribution, I just wanted to say what I think. I appreciate your efforts.

I tried it with Netherlands VPN and it was fine.