I chose EndeavourOS initially because I was relatively new to Linux (I tinkered with Ubuntu in grade school) and wanted out of Microsoft’s environment. The support community is amazing and newbie-friendly. They’ve helped me through a few bricked systems.
Now I’m at a crux because I own a 1080 and am tired of mistakenly breaking my installation because NVIDIA stopped supporting open source drivers for old cards. I felt uncomfortable building my own driver packages and was relying on AUR, but the recent security breach has me skittish.
Rather than switch to another distro (Mint being the top contender), I decided to replace my graphics card and stay with Endeavour because it seems the Arch distros are the only ones staunchly against age verification laws. I’m fortunate enough to be in a position to update and stick with Endeavour. Maybe when I actually get good at Linux I’ll switch to pure Arch.
I chose EndeavourOS initially because I was relatively new to Linux (I tinkered with Ubuntu in grade school) and wanted out of Microsoft’s environment. The support community is amazing and newbie-friendly. They’ve helped me through a few bricked systems.
Now I’m at a crux because I own a 1080 and am tired of mistakenly breaking my installation because NVIDIA stopped supporting open source drivers for old cards. I felt uncomfortable building my own driver packages and was relying on AUR, but the recent security breach has me skittish.
Rather than switch to another distro (Mint being the top contender), I decided to replace my graphics card and stay with Endeavour because it seems the Arch distros are the only ones staunchly against age verification laws. I’m fortunate enough to be in a position to update and stick with Endeavour. Maybe when I actually get good at Linux I’ll switch to pure Arch.