raymac46 Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 (edited) Since I am going to rebuild my neighbor's old Broadwell i5 and I'll install Mint there, I have reinstalled EndeavourOS on my Linux friendly Levovo Flex 15-2D. It is mostly AMD A8-6410 based with Atheros wifi. I know EndeavourOS isn't pure vanilla Arch but it has a nice Xfce desktop if you want to roll that way. The installer Calamares works fine. After installation you can update using pacman and you get yay installed if you want something from the AUR. EndeavourOS does have a repo but it's mainly for some scripts and icons for the desktop. I'd say 99.9% of its packages come from Arch. The default install is very light and lightning fast. Certainly not for purists but I like EndeavourOS a lot. Edited May 19 by raymac46 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted May 20 Author Share Posted May 20 About the only problems I have with EndeavourOS is getting a wireless printer installed and configured. You have to install CUPS and HPLIP and Avahi, make sure a bunch of services and daemons are running, and then configure the firewall to permit connection. It took me a while but I got it working. I don't do this often enough to make it second nature. With something like Linux Mint the whole process happens automagically. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted May 20 Author Share Posted May 20 EndeavorOS works for me because it has a quick and efficient installer and afterwards i get pretty much what I would have wanted had I used the "Arch way" of installation. The DE is Xfce by default and I usually choose that. It has a bit nicer theme and icons but that is OK. I get Arch repos, AUR, pacman and yay. The installed system is pretty much your expected stripped down Arch setup. I can choose my own office and photo management programs. I did not install Libre Office, just Abiword and Gnumeric. Obviously things like Samba and a printer take some tweaking but you can use the Arch Wiki to sort through it. EndeavourOS is a bit prettier and installs easier than vanilla Arch but you still need to know something about Linux to make the most of it. Not a beginner's distro. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted May 21 Author Share Posted May 21 Well about the only thing I had left to do with my EndeavourOS install was to set up a simple Samba client to access some files on a NAS drive i have connected to my router. This is far simpler than setting up a Samba server and I followed ArchWiki to the letter. After I had everything installed, I tried connecting to the NAS. I put in its IP and I got the login screen, but as soon as I tried to connect Thunar crashed. I checked the firewall, triple checked that I had all the packages installed right, but no joy. I even tried installing PCManFM but that didn't work either. In desperation I resorted to Windows to check the Settings on the router. Turns out I was typing my UserID wrong. Doh! Once I put in the proper accreditation everything worked like a charm. Often your problem lies between the keyboard and the screen. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 50 minutes ago, raymac46 said: Well about the only thing I had left to do with my EndeavourOS install was to set up a simple Samba client to access some files on a NAS drive i have connected to my router. This is far simpler than setting up a Samba server and I followed ArchWiki to the letter. After I had everything installed, I tried connecting to the NAS. I put in its IP and I got the login screen, but as soon as I tried to connect Thunar crashed. I checked the firewall, triple checked that I had all the packages installed right, but no joy. I even tried installing PCManFM but that didn't work either. In desperation I resorted to Windows to check the Settings on the router. Turns out I was typing my UserID wrong. Doh! Once I put in the proper accreditation everything worked like a charm. Often your problem lies between the keyboard and the screen. Gotta love those moment when you beat your head against the wall trying everything and its something simple. Like when I am not getting dns, I try everything before remembering that I need to reboot my RPi (pihole). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted May 23 Author Share Posted May 23 [ray@ray-20377 ~]$ inxi -Fxz System: Kernel: 6.3.3-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.1.1 Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20377 v: Lenovo Flex 2-15D serial: <superuser required> Mobo: LENOVO model: Lenovo Flex 2-15D v: 31900058 WIN serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: 9FCN27WW date: 06/11/2015 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 17.3 Wh (95.6%) condition: 18.1/30.1 Wh (60.1%) volts: 8.0 min: 7.2 model: SANYO L13S4A61 status: not charging CPU: Info: quad core model: AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Puma rev: 1 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 2 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 1000 min/max: 1000/2000 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1000 2: 1000 3: 1000 4: 1000 bogomips: 15974 Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm Graphics: Device-1: AMD Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] vendor: Lenovo driver: radeon v: kernel arch: GCN-2 bus-ID: 00:01.0 Device-2: IMC Networks Lenovo EasyCamera driver: uvcvideo type: USB bus-ID: 1-1.4:4 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 driver: X: loaded: radeon unloaded: modesetting dri: radeonsi gpu: radeon resolution: 1366x768~60Hz API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 23.0.3 renderer: KABINI ( LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 2.50 6.3.3-arch1-1) direct-render: Yes Audio: Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1 Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.2 API: ALSA v: k6.3.3-arch1-1 status: kernel-api Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.70 status: active Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Lenovo driver: r8168 v: 8.051.02-NAPI port: 1000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 IF: enp1s0 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lenovo driver: ath9k v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> Bluetooth: Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB bus-ID: 2-1.2:4 Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: down bt-service: disabled rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: see --recommends Drives: Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 8.51 GiB (1.8%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G2B0A size: 465.76 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 456.41 GiB used: 8.51 GiB (1.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 ID-2: /boot/efi size: 998 MiB used: 312 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 Swap: Alert: No swap data was found. Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 47.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 47.0 C Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A Info: Processes: 186 Uptime: 30m Memory: available: 6.71 GiB used: 1.46 GiB (21.7%) Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 13.1.1 Packages: 892 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.27 [ray@ray-20377 ~]$ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted Tuesday at 02:37 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 02:37 PM Well after a couple weeks I have to say that EndeavourOS is one great distro. I get all the things I like with Arch Linux and my favorite DE (Xfce) is beautifully configured and with an excellent look and feel. I suppose if you want to run a WM or a different DE like GNOME it'd be best to just install Arch - but I beleieve I am getting the best of both worlds with EndeavourOS. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted Tuesday at 08:40 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 08:40 PM Good deal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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