I know this is a boring post as there are a lot of these here (This is the Hello area after all), but after 1.5 months of using Endeavour OS and seeing how I feel with it I think I am here to stay, although I have lurked on these forums for a bit with no account. Endeavour was my first choice and the first one I found funnily enough but I tested 8 other distros anyway and found this to be my favorite, I also observed the forums to see what they are like and found this to have the best forums and helpful community. After that I have used it as my normal everyday PC distro all this time and been fine, I have Windows 11 on another drive just in case but I haven’t booted in to it once.
Other than using Linux the odd short period of time in virtual machines a couple of times I have only used Windows PCs since I was 6 years or so, XP right up to Windows 11.
I have found the transition very easy actually and getting everything up and running such as Steam drivers, packages working out the filesystem (Albeit slowly), however, I won’t speak for everyone on that as I work in IT so I am used to this kind of stuff and read about Linux prior and read up about stuff if I had issues or before doing something if unsure.
Sorry for the huge message, it’s what I am like. but all I’m saying is it’s been many years since I last tried Linux for a short while but I’m glad to finally settle in now. This also means I will have questions from time to time as I am not entirely familiar with Linux, I will try to help others if I can/have the information and knowledge to.
I am very pleased that you are so happy with EndeavorOS. And no, such topics are certainly not boring. It’s always interesting how people connect here
I’m a crusty old curmudgeon, but I’m pleased that you want to learn and try to help yourself. I can be a bit testy when someone’s question is answered in about the first search result (ie they didn’t even try).
Linux (like life) is a learning journey. I’ve learned from some of the posters above even though I’ve been Linuxing for more than 25 years (and I worked in IT too) One person can’t really learn it all (or if they did, they’d be quite extraordinary).
Hi @SemLraug no worries, I’ve been having fun so far. Linux has kind of got me interested in computers again, like when I was younger working out how Windows worked.
Hi @dbarronoss thanks for your input as someone else who worked in IT and experience of Linux, I’ve always tried to figure out stuff myself whenever possible, usually I find searching for an issue is faster than asking online, or I start tinkering and looking around myself. And then if I really can’t figure it out I will ask with all information of what I found or I like to share it or help others.
Life long learning seems to be a thing I like, I also do art, mostly from pencil and then colour and effects via Photoshop which takes a long time to do good. Creative software I’m aware is a whole other challenge or impossible at least natively in Linux but I will work something out.
Learning Linux has be fun for me, reminded me of learning Windows when I was younger and going through all the folders, regedit and installing fresh Windows for the first time. One thing I have found during my 1.5 months is Linux isn’t necessarily harder in many aspects, I was just used to using Windows all my life and day by day I learn more. When I started with EOS I didn’t even know straight away where my user profile was (In terms of navigating even though I already read about it) and simple things like that but now I know where quite a lot of stuff is now, and reformatting my drives to non NTFS formats etc. I haven’t broke Linux yet but so far I have either already read about it or if I don’t know what something is or unsure about it I look it up before messing with it or back it up first (Such as what a lib file is or where my drives are stored).
Before installing Linux I learned the different styles and types out there and difference between stable and rolling distro. I used this website below a lot to have a very good basic idea about Linux and typed random search results such as “differences between Windows and Linux” or “what does Linux do better than Windows”, just common things people ask and I gathered a lot of insight from people already using Linux and even the things Windows does better so I already knew what to expect and knew I wanted to move to Linux.
I skimed through it a bit, not gonna lie.
I wanted to welcome you right away, to be honest, cause I know it is hard coming in a new place. Or maybe it is just me that had difficulty making my first few posts here.
Hi @r0ckhopper Thanks, out of all the ones I tried (And this was across all different distributions), EOS definitely looked to be the best choice and best forum community.
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One person can’t really learn it all (or if they did, they’d be quite extraordinary).
You’ve made an excellent choice