So I installed EndeavourOS ...
... and I absolutely love it.
After my previous post where I asked for advice on distros I have tried Mint and EndeavourOS first as VM's and afterwards I gave them their own partition and tried it on my real hardware.
Something about EndeavourOS just sat right though and I promptly replaced my windows install with it. KDE Plasma also blows me away with the amount of customisation that is possible.
I've spent some time configuring today but mostly aesthetic stuff as my hardware worked 95% out of the box. Some odd dependencies were missing for steam to work properly but I'm really not missing anything that windows had right now.
I'm curious how my uni workflow will look like now, but I'm sure I can make it work.
Thanks a lot for the support and advice you've given me. I really love the community on here.
I'll get back to customising my bash prompt now. 😄
Edit: Due to popular demand:
I use Arch, btw.
I've never tried EndeavourOS as it always seems a bit pointless now archinstall exists.
Fair point. For me using a distro dedicated to making Arch accessible just is more attractive than having an installer and being on my own afterwards.
But yeah, EndeavourOS is pretty much just an installer with purple space theming.
Also, the community around a distro makes a difference. I don't think that the EndeavourOS community has quite the lofty expectations of its users that Arch users do, so getting help might be a bit more pleasant.
As someone who used both, endeavourOS gives you a good idea what a system should look like, it's not extremely overdone.
I did switch to Arch, just because i think that i don't need quite as much.
If i would have only tried Arch i would have spent so much time figuring out what's possible and what i want.
There is a place for it, not everyone wants to take so much time figuring things out and that's fine by me.
I've used Linux in various ways since the nineties and know it intimately but I don't want to fiddle with an install. When I got my new laptop this year I appreciated being able to plug in an EndavourOS flash drive, click on a couple of things and then let it install a sane default with prop NV driver already setup while I made coffee. I was ready to play games from my old Steam lib SSD in 20 min.
I don't know if the Arch installer is like that but EOS is slick.