Just a thank you post!

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Just want to say thanks to the distro maintainers for EndeavourOS!

I ran pure Arch with Gnome for a while, and ever since i changed my GPU to Nvidia, it started to behave weird (gnome mostly, but also the 1000 things i did to it lol).
After that, i decided to re-install it, but man, i’ve never had so much problems installing Arch like that before. Neither the normal install worked, nor did the archinstall script. Idk why, the script broke like 5 times, and manual partitioning without it returned errors and wouldn’t mount the volumes at boot (yes, fstab was correctly set up).

So i finally had enough and opted for Endeavour.

It’s just so easy. And the best thing - it’s arch. With some pre-configured stuff. Like, i didn’t know it uses dracut, and yay is installed by default which is nice. And it just works. Except pipewire… :stuck_out_tongue: But i took care of that by replacing ti with pulseaudio and jack2. Now i can have low latency recording as well!

Feels comfy to install and use, and i’m liking xfce4 as well! Gnome is great on Wayland, but not on X11, KDE always broke for me in really spectacular ways and was unusable, and i’m not into tiling window managers too much. Never really gave it a shot, but so far so good. Very snappy and responsive. Good choice for a default DE!

Now it’s time to break it with messing around too much. :smiling_imp:
But if i do, i’ll know i can easily install and set it up again. :slight_smile:

The obligatory desktop screenshot. :slight_smile:

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And if you want to Gruvbox’d EOS icon for the launcher, i made it myself:
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Fits with the color scheme better than the default one. :slight_smile:

Cheers!

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Welcome @vepar
Nice Icon. :wink:

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Thanks! :slight_smile:
It’s just a hue shifted version of the original. So the colors are oroginal, but just made to fit in with the gruvbox theme better.

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Welcome to the forum @vepar , nice icon

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Welcome @vepar! :enos: :enos_flag:

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Right on!!!

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Thanks! :slight_smile:

I’ve been here before, i EOS and there were 1000 of errors and stuff, turned out it was a RAM faliure. But people here helped me diagnose it. I used Arch (btw) after that for a while, and now i’m using EndeavourOS.

Thanks! :slight_smile:

It’s how i learn. :smiley:

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I’m currently running Arch with Gnome as my DE using an Xorg session with an Nvidia gpu, have zero issues and the same with when I was using KDE Plasma. I have found with both Gnome and KDE Plasma that Wayland sessions still run into too many glitches for a good desktop experience, both with Nvidia and AMD gpu’s. One of the things that I use which seems to be broken most of the time with Wayland is screensharing.

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That’s great! :slight_smile:
Glad it’s working for you. :slight_smile:

Gnome “worked” with xorg, but it was noticably less smoother than wayland. To the point it felt very janky at times, with stuttering and such. Not a great desktop experience. Not the worst, but not great. It occasinally got some glitches too.

Here’s what happened with KDE for me last time i tried it with nvidia.
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/16k78cc/kde_plasma_hates_me/

This was on wayland. On Xorg, it would stutter, especially when resizing windows. Also a janky experience by itself but there’s more lol.

I dislike SDDM with a passion lol, it used to be a 50/50 chance if i’ll be allowed to log in. Now that KDE is developing it, i think that particular bug has been fixed, but if i do get logged into my PC, i still have KDE to deal with. Cosntant errors when browsing their themes, glitches when applying them, opening programs stutters, losing applied configurations to the desktop layout for no reason, not to mention, on my previous GPU, the xorg session would skip frames in games, like it was rendering every 3rd frame. That was fixed by switching to wayland, but wayland left graphical glitches all over the desktop.

I finally had enough, switched to gnome and had a good time with the AMD gpu on wayland. But ever since i switched to nvidia, gnome felt worse. I tried KDE once again, then that thing i linked from reddit happened and switched to xfce. Now everything works smooth and as it should. Not that xfce doesn’t have its issues, but nothing major that would make my desktop use feel bad.

I’ll probably go back to gnome when i buy an AMD gpu. And i want to like KDE, but i’ve never had a good experience with it. It looks great, the customisation is great, but that DE just never worked for me lol. Idk why.

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