Hi, Is this distro good for a normal user who was not a power user in other operating systems? I have 110 GB SSD divided into 60 GB for Windows and 50 GB for Linux and a 500 GB hard drive that I will put games and important files in it. I have a limited internet package of 400 GB per month, so I hav…

There are a lot of topics about this already. The short answer is that it doesn’t matter if you are a beginner or an expert. What matters is your desires. If you want a distro that is completely hands off and you don’t have to learn anything, EOS is not it. EOS, or really, any Arch-based distro …

Play with it in a VM for a while before committing hard drive space. If you find it suits you, give it a try. That is the best advice I can give. :smiley:

I think yay and systemd-boot as defaults make this system the best choice for beginners. Extreme simplicity. That’s my opinion. Given that OS is to run programs, there is no easier way of getting them installed like using yay. Simply, compare what you need to do to install Spotify on anything Debian…

[image] Jko4m: 50 GB for Linux First of all welcome @Jko4m to the wonderful world of EndeavourOS and the wonderful community. This size, well just my personal point of view, is relatively OK to start with, but I am worried as you said games if you might need more. I will leave this for the e…

yes i know its easier to do some stuff on arch than other user friendly distros and vise versa but will the experience be much more difficult for me due to my lack of experience?

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think going with flatpaks is better for a beginner, especially if you’ll be using Arch. flatpaks ensure that none of your dependencies (these are the extra package the package you want needs) conflict with each other. Often these dependencies are very small in…

Just wanted to add: if you don’t choose Arch, I would ignore the “choose the LTS” advice in the link I provided. The newest available kernels in stable distros are likely to be older than the lts version of arch.

Experience is a very individual thing. However, what EnOS protects you from out-of-the-box are two biggest nightmares of Linux world: dealing with GRUB and its all crazy complexity managing software repositories You’ll get a very minimalist desktop you can setup mostly by just using yay.

Agreed! And there’s hardly any branded cruft around. It was hard when I was beginning to distinguish what things were “Linux” and what was packages related to the distro. I almost feel like it’s the only distro “based” on a distro worth mentioning. I used “just works” a bit flippantly. EnOS does “j…

the problem is flatpaks fills up my storage quickly i can put my /home on my hdd but once you try ssd you feel like that you were a cave man and entered the 21st century xD

I just moved my game library from a spinning disk to an nvme, so I know what you mean! There’s not any situation on any distribution where you “need” a flatpak. Ubuntu forces them on you at times, and some software in the Debian repos is old enough that the easiest solution to get a new version is f…

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keescase April 15, 2025, 6:55pm 13

This might be a thread that will give you some more info (it is a long one so be prepaired).

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