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So I installed EndeavourOS ... (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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... 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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You mentioned customizing your bash prompt, I recommend checking out OhMyBash. https://github.com/ohmybash/oh-my-bash.

Alternatively, zsh is also good, and a little bit more modern. I still haven't found a solution that uses modern keyboard shortcuts and text entry functions. Even zsh things like shift+arrows and ctrl+arrows are an after market hack.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And the zsh equivalent Oh My Zsh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In case you're interested I've tried out a few things and kinda settled on fish, but will still use bash for scripting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This will send me down another 4h rabbit hole today, thanks 😬

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It sounds like you're right at home in the Linux community!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a big fan of fish personally.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I've heard of it but never checked it out. It will be worth a check at least.