I always had Endeavor on my radar if I want/need to use Arch more extensively, it really looks like a great distro to use based on cutting-edge arch.
Welcome to the world of Linux gaming and congratulations on choosing your disto! I'm curious if you came across Bazzite during your exploration phase?
I have not tried Bazzite but have heard lots about it since. I am looking at converting my htpc/gaming rig over soon and Bazzite is top of the list for that!
I've got KDE Plasma on my laptop (Mint) and desktop/server (Debian). It's SO NICE, it really is a fun DE to use. And while it definitely drains battery quicker, otherwise it runs smooth as anything else. Edit: actually, don't quote me on the battery
Got any stats on the battery thing? Plasma is fairly low resources, my laptop is equal if bit better than gnome in that regard. Certainly better than windows.
I am not using Mint though.
One laptop Arch the other Fedora.
To be fair it's a decade+ old refurbished MSI laptop, its battery isn't amazing anymore no matter what. Just seems like when I've got it unplugged playing YouTube it drains quicker but I could be mistaken.
I used Pop for a bit and didn't like its DE either, and also it hated my GPU (a bog-standard RTX3060) for some reason. Got frustrated, tried a bunch of Ubuntu-derived distros that either wouldn't install or installed and wouldn't boot (also GPU/driver-related issues, apparently), got fed up, and decided to try Nobara about a month ago on the basis of it being a gaming-focused distro with frequent updates, and I have been quite pleasantly surprised. 95% of everything I've tried just works, the rest requires a bit of fiddling but isn't too bad (had to install battle.net via Steam rather than Lutris for whatever reason, f.ex), I even got my novel-writing software running pretty well under wine. At this point I haven't booted back into windows in weeks and I think I'm just about ready to start tearing down my windows install and converting my other drives away from NTFS.
Nice! It feels so good when it works, like there's actually hope of escaping windows. Now I'm past hoping and just enjoying it.
For sure! I thought I was just going to be boned because of the GPU issues I had because 'lol buy a different GPU' just isn't practical and the end of service life for Win10 is coming up in a few months and I was really not looking forward to moving to 11.
Honestly I'm not even 'enjoying' the OS, it's gotten to the point for me where it's just the way things are now, it's kind of become just a fact about my world. There are a couple things I miss from Windows (reliable Phone Link being the primary one, I hate typing on my phone keyboard and KDE Connect SMS/Pushbullet/etc don't always get SMS updates and such, but also something like Stardock Fences), but mostly it just works.
I like endeavour os. Needed an uptodate kernel and fancied a change after spending 15 years on mint which i love. Kde was new to me but grown to love it.
Arch ftw.
Thanks for sharing your experiences!
Do you think your experiences on Pop!_OS and Kubuntu were instrumental for EndeavourOS working out for ya? Or do you think you could have jumped straight to EndeavourOS successfully?
I could have definitely jumped straight in, but I think I would always wonder if other distros were 'more' right for me. So yeah, i think trying the other ones helped me be content here.
That being said, I'm a little more experienced now and could likely navigate around some of the things i didnt like about the other distros.
but I think I would always wonder if other distros were ‘more’ right for me.
Hahaha, very recognizable.
Your reply is much appreciated as it is yet another piece of (anecdotal) evidence that Arch-based distros can be picked up by complete newbs with success. While I don't think it's necessarily for everyone, the almost militant opposition by naysayers isn't warranted either.
Though I wonder, do you think you're more 'tech-savvy' than the average newcomer? Or, at least, more willing to read/understand/work for your system?
Thinking on this more, the install was 100% easy. 2 problems i had were dracut was updated to v107 then rolled back by EoS. I had to look up the issue, realized it didnt affect me so i was able to ignore it. My second issue was last week pulseaudio had an update that messed up 5.1 sound so i did have to roll back there. All in all, nothing too difficult, and all good learning opportunities.
i did have to roll back there
I think this is pivotal!
Updates can come with breaking changes. Therefore, the way a distro handles its updates is perhaps more important than its update cadence:
Sorry for my ramblings, but with M$ sunsetting W10, I feel there's a great opportunity for Linux to capitalize on this event. Yet, as your own experience clearly shows, the 'default' to recommend Mint/Ubuntu/Pop!_OS (or your average Ubuntu-based distro) isn't always a guarantee for success. And were it not for your insistence on trying out different distros, we might have 'lost' you 😭. Hopefully we will ever-adapt as a community to better accommodate the needs of to-be M$-refugees.
Yes I'm more tech-savvy, but I'm less patient to read/understand things, i will usually chatgpt something these days, then keep my own personal documentation for anything i may need in the future.
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