Returning EOS user :)

Hi everyone. I was using Linux a lot, including EOS and I ended up going back to Windows because of really annoying and proprietary Open University software I needed, that only worked in Windows. Anyway I am back on Linux and before heading right back here I decided to give other distros a chance. Fedora, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, Open Suse but there’s nothing quite like EOS. I did try arch using archinstall and it went well but I decided I’m not allowed to use Arch until I learn to manually install it as a fun little challenge. I had issues on every distro I mentioned with Nvidia or Wayland this or no suspend that. Installed eos and everything is golden out of the box. Amazing. The community is alright too I guess. For me, only fedora comes close to the smoothness I feel with Arch based distros and Opensuse would but it has some weird way to incorporate the Nvidia driver into the kernel. EOS farted the 570 driver onto my system without any input from me whatsoever lol. **edited because I can’t spell or write

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You’re alright too @hikingferal :grin::+1:

What boot option did you select with the EndeavourOS Live ISO?

I used the Nvidia installer option and then when booted into the system - I did nvidia-smi to see what was what and already had 570. I was planning to do nvidia-inst or whatever but no need. It was just about the most seamless nvidia related thing that’s ever happened to me on Linux.

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The Nvidia boot option at install will install the proprietary Nvidia driver.

The nvidia-inst app is mostly meant for cases where the Nvidia boot option was not selected at install, but user (for some reason) wants to install the Nvidia driver at a later time.

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Welcome back, @hikingferal ! :waving_hand:

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Welcome back!

Welcome back @hikingferal :enos_flag:

Welcome back @hikingferal!

Welcome back! :enos_flag:

Welcome back

Welcome here at EOS! :enos_flag: