I will go first. I plan to achieve two things with EOS this year
One I plan to get secure boot enabled. It is a pity that Arch does not have in its repositories singed UEFI Linux Kernels which are compatible with secure boot. Debian does it, and consequently all the distros that are based off Debian have the choice of using it. I wonder why Arch is not doing it. It only costs $99 per certificate. I am still figuring out whether to use shim or sbctl and what will work. Or is there some other items too.
Two I plan to automate my updates. I am still looking whether a tool can do this or I will have to write a script for this. I do not plan to update daily, rather only weekly and if it works alternative weeks. The aim is that on a given day of the week a cron job or systemd-timer task runs a program/shell script which does the pre-update tasks, update tasks, reboot and then post-update tasks. Have still not figured out the scope of this till now.
So wanted to know what will be your goals for EOS/Arch this year? What do you plan to achieve on it?
If you are planning to do something on a non-EOS, non-Arch system, and feel like sharing, please do.
Well, basically the same thing I had already planned for 2025. Not to break the system so badly that it canāt be saved and has to be reinstalled.
Apart from non-OS stuff, to stick with PC gaming for as long as possible, even though thatās really difficult right now due to rising prices. Right now, Iām just hoping that nothing breaks, or at least nothing expensive.
I want to do a reinstall, semi-automated, based on whatever I decide to use. I constantly switch between just using calamers, using some shellscript afterwards and full blown automation via Ansible. Decisions Decisions!
I should not have to pay Microsoft to install another OS on MY SYSTEM. Microsoft doesnāt OWN MY Computer I do. Arch doesnāt need to waste Money Giving it to a Trillion Dollar Company.
Careful with this on Arch. Make sure your updates are still āinteractiveā (Remember manual intervention is required at times)
All the best. Please include EOS too in your plans. EOS needs to rule the world of OS.
Yep couldnt agree more. That is why it is 2nd in the list. There is an applet that is available that shows whether a reboot is required or not post update. Similarly to that there ought to be an applet or plasmoid that gives a popup message if the update had any warnings or errors. For example a few moons ago the firewalld package was slipped. I was running the update in a minimized terminal window. Post update I got the message that a reboot is required. So closed the terminal window and rebooted. Would have loved to know that firewalld package and the gst-plugins-bad packages had issues via a applet/plasmoid notification.
I plan to relish the fact that my desktop computer can now do some of the ācreativeā things Iāve always wanted it to do. Iām into photography (panorama) and now into video. I want to make videos with soundtracks on DVD and thumb drives that can be played back on ābigā screen TVās with captions.
I also have a lot of astronomical software on my system and I still frequent the night sky with these apps to see what is out there. In the past 14 years Iāve seen 2 comets and may still venture out at night to view the sky though my age is the biggest problem. Iāve always enjoyed seeing the wonders of nature in the night sky. I own a few telescopes which now collect dust because of my age. I only wish I could have gotten more enjoyment out of them in my younger years. Iāve seen things most people will never see except in textbooks and photoās taken through Hubble and the likes.
The computer is a great tool and the software is key to my enjoyment using it. I wish EndeavourOS many more years of continued success. Open-source software and operating systems have become a beacon of what is āgoodā in my mind. No amount of selfish greed, control, and monopolization has ever changed my view on this subject. Bill Gates had an idea and that is it. He fostered his own downfall by his attempts to control everyone for his own personal financial gains. A short sighted individual like many of his ārichā delusional peers. I can now only say good ridden to him and his ilk.
Linus Torvalds is a true genius of a person. The world could use more people like him who have the inspiration and insight to carry us where weāve all gone.
I havenāt had an active EndeavourOS installation on my pc for a couple of years now (please donāt boo me), but I love the community here (I really do), and I only use that other distro because itās just a bit more progressive with itās setup defaults, causing me to have to do less manually if I setup a new installation, and slightly opinionated on rolling out cutting-edge āthingsā.
However, holding a special place in my heart, EOS remains my fallback in the event of social/distro issues with that other Arch-based distro (unnamed) and like almost any Arch-based distro (except maybe Manjaro), almost everything is the same under the covers, so I still feel like I fit in
Last year I managed to build a fully functional backup TUI that pushes all my data to on-prem backups
TrueNAS + External Drive
Synology + Synology-attached External Drive
Encrypted Cloud via Hyperbackup
This year, I want to work out a reasonable way to keep my āoperational dataā - the stuff I use and need day to day accessible in a way that I donāt have to jump onto my main rig to get it. Things like Obsidian notes, docs, the bits that change constantly. 90% of what I have stored is effectively ācold storageā but itās that 10% thatās really been a challenge, more so when actively avoiding solutions that are proprietary or owned by potentially hostile nations. Thankfully, the options for sync are varied, but definitely worth trying if you want to maintain ownership of your personal data.
truth be told, and it sounds boring, but I have about 300 DVDs in caseā¦.ripping these to m4v takes about 1/2 hours..
ā¦if I can find a faster method, my Endeavour goal is to digitize my DVD collection with the terminal-emulator, no GUI. Like a tough guy.
In the EULA (itās sickening reading and Iāve read it 2-3 times) it clearly states you none of their software after you pay them for it. You are leasing the software. They donāt own the hardware, you are right, but I know they want to and will find a wayā¦
I plan to experiment with KDE, sway and hyprland installed together, and use them with the same user. I failed in the past with KDE and gnome, but leaving one of them out should work
If there are no overlapping elements, you should be fine. Ie donāt use the same bar for sway and hyrpland (though with separate config files it probably would work tine with overlap).
Thatās what i did not long ago (also using some gnome services), these 3 actually work pretty well together.
KDE will probably be the most problematic, but if you separate configs and more importantly services, it should work without much problems.
Good luck my dude, things can get messy real fast..