@jonathon will do, just wanted to clarify mainly about the drives.
Also the other drives after you get it installed can be wiped and formatted to ext4 with gparted or another tool as i assume they are currently NTFS for Windows.
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I have EnOS on a usb already probably from Oct, is it fine to use that one or should I download another copy and dd it again?
I would use the latest one.
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There is no option for Secure boot, so I can’t make sure it’s disabled. Do I just go ahead and try and install it?
Ignore me. Found it. lol just panicked. There is some reasoning to it. In the past my mate (3rd line engineer) couldn’t change the boot order. Anyways forget that.
will do @ricklinux
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Post your hardware specs first. Put three ~~~ before and after your post. Make sure you do it in fiull screen in the terminal so all the info is there.
I so badly hope this works!
[liveuser@eos-2020.09.20 ~]$ inxi -Fxxxa --no-host
System: Kernel: 5.8.10-arch1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: initrd=\EFI\archiso\intel-ucode.img initrd=\EFI\archiso\amd-ucode.img initrd=\EFI\archiso\archiso.img
archisobasedir=arch cow_spacesize=10G archisolabel=ENDEAVOUROS earlymodules=loop modules-load=loop
rd.modules-load=loop nvidia nouveau.modeset=0 nouveau.blacklist=yes modprobe.blacklist=nouveau i915.modeset=1
radeon.modeset=1
Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.20 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: EndeavourOS
Machine: Type: Desktop System: Alienware product: Alienware Area-51 R5 v: N/A serial: <superuser/root required> Chassis:
type: 3 serial: <superuser/root required>
Mobo: Alienware model: 0N4R4N v: A00 serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: Alienware v: 2.0.3 date: 05/27/2019
CPU: Info: 8-Core model: Intel Core i7-9800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake family: 6 model-id: 55 (85) stepping: 4
microcode: 2006906 L2 cache: 16.5 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 121639
Speed: 1200 MHz min/max: 1200/4500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1200 2: 1200 3: 1201 4: 1201 5: 1200 6: 1201 7: 1201
8: 1201 9: 1200 10: 1200 11: 1200 12: 1200 13: 1200 14: 1200 15: 1201 16: 1200
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU102 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Rev. A] vendor: Dell driver: nvidia v: 450.66
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 65:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1e07
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: xcompmgr driver: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
alternate: nouveau,nv display ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 137 s-size: 712x400mm (28.0x15.7") s-diag: 817mm (32.2")
Monitor-1: DP-2 res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 138 size: 708x399mm (27.9x15.7") diag: 813mm (32")
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio: Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3
chip ID: 8086:a2f0
Device-2: NVIDIA TU102 High Definition Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 65:00.1
chip ID: 10de:10f7
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.10-arch1-1
Network: Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Dell driver: alx v: kernel port: 3000
bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 1969:e0b1
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:d8:61:01:83:f5
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Dell driver: alx v: kernel port: 2000
bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 1969:e0b1
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: 00:d8:61:01:83:f6
Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Dell driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel
modules: wl port: 2000 bus ID: 05:00.0 chip ID: 168c:003e
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 7a:65:70:01:23:9c
Device-4: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-14:7 chip ID: 0cf3:e007
Drives: Local Storage: total: 3.25 TiB used: 52.7 MiB (0.0%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 PRO 1TB size: 953.87 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: S462NF0M301739K rev: 1B2QEXP7 temp: 41 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 PRO 512GB size: 476.94 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: S42YNF0M107671M rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA200 size: 1.82 TiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B
speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: 19RHRJJGS rev: AD30 scheme: GPT
ID-4: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Blade size: 29.25 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B serial: 4C530000080816102491 rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
RAID: Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: 4020 bus ID: 00:17.0 chip ID: 8086.2822
rev: N/A
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 10.00 GiB used: 52.7 MiB (0.5%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102
Swap: Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 30.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 33 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info: Processes: 314 Uptime: 3m wakeups: 1 Memory: 15.51 GiB used: 1.49 GiB (9.6%) Init: systemd v: 246
target: multi-user.target Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 895 lib: 196 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18
running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.1.09
There’s some screen tear but I’m assuming that’ll be sorted with Cinnamon.
I’m going to try and go ahead with the install.
I’m ready to click the install button, I see you writing i’m just waiting for your reply
Okay… If you are installing Cinnamon that’s great because I like it also. It has good support for HiDpi also if you are outputting to other monitor or screens. If everything goes okay and you have it installed change one setting in effects. Turn off window effects. This is only because the welcome screen gets some issue with it when the mouse cursor hovers over any of the boxes on it.
yep that’s why im going for Cinnamon
I think you’ve mentioned that in the past to me. Cheers Rick 
Actually you may not have that problem because you have Nvidia. So forget doing that. This only happens on AMDGPU as far as i know.
cool. Here goes nothing.
aaaaaaarrrrrr and wife calls me to get my dinner. lol have to eat by my computer.
lol cant enjoy food at a time like this
I wouldn’t stress about it!
Edit: I see your processor is right up there close to mine. It’s 8 core 16 thread. I have the intel i7-8086K which is only 6 core 12 thread but it is pretty good.
hahaha, when I learn more I’ll appreciate it more.
So you are doing the online install of Cinnamon and you selected Nvidia and printing support?
yep, its just rebooted.
just give me 5 and ill have finished my supp
wow, that’s some hardware 
yaaaaaaaaa hoooooo haaaaaaaaa woooooooopppppioiiiiiiiii.
I’m so happy to be writing this and hearing the noise from my keyboard.
It went smoothly. just gotta look back now at what @ricklinux said about the gpu
So am I correct in think that I can/should install nvidia-dkms 455.45.01-1 ?
I’m going to install the lts kernel first because I think it’s best I stay on the lts, heard it was more stable.
and after installing the gpu driver do I need to do anything?
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Can you install inxi first and lets see the graphics.
inxi -G
ok
[muj@Blackstone ~]$ inxi -G
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU102 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Rev. A] driver: nvidia v: 455.45.01
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.9 driver: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
really happy!
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Okay lets do a little set up first on cinnamon. Right click on the bottom task bar and click on panel settings. set panel height to around 32 and symbolic icon size to 26. Not sure what monitor you have so this may or not be too small? I only have 22" Monitor.
Edit: Then go to themes in the start menu and set desktop to ArcDark, Controls to ArkDark, Icons to Arc XD, and Window Borders to Arc Darker.