… 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.

  • Decker108
    37·
    10 months ago

    I don’t use Endeavor or Arch (btw), but KDE Plasma is amazing. I’d probably be happy with any distro as long as it supported plasma.

      • MyNameIsRichard
        9·
        10 months ago

        I guess it might not be available in all repositories. I can’t think of one where it definitely isn’t though.

      • afb
        8·
        10 months ago

        Doesn’t work on Guix, or at least isn’t in the repos and didn’t work at all some time ago. Something to do with the way Plasma expects the files stem to be versus how Guix implements it. Nix makes it work so it must be possible, not sure whether anyone’s bothered to port it over yet though.

        • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
          4·
          10 months ago

          Oh, that’s quite interesting. It most certainly works on NixOS, considering there is a live KDE option, so why it doesn’t work on Guix is mystery for me.

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
        1·
        10 months ago

        Some distros are more oriented toward another DE. You can always install KDE, but you may be stuck having to mix and match it with GTK stuff from your distro itself

      • NathanUp
        1·
        8 months ago

        My understanding is that a good desktop environment experience also relies on distro maintainers packaging things in a timely manner, et cetera.