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I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went. If you google it, you’ll get a lot of “lol good luck installing linux on that” type posts - so I was ready for a battle.

Turned off secure boot and tpm. Booted off a usb stick. Live environment, check. Start installer and wipe drive. Few minutes later I’m in. Ok let’s find out what’s not working…

WiFi check. Bluetooth check. Sound check (although a little quiet). Keyboard check. Screen resolution check. Hibernates correctly? Check. WTF I can’t believe this all works out the box. The touchscreen? Check. The stylus pen check. Flipping the screen over to a tablet check. Jesus H.

Ok, everything just works. Huh. Who’d have thunk?

Install programs, log into accounts, jeez this laptop is snappier than on windows. Make things pretty for my wife and install some fun games and stuff.

Finished. Ez. Why did I wait so long? Google was wrong - it was cake.

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[–] pathief@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (6 children)

EndeavourOS has been a wonderful experience for me, can't recommend it enough.

[–] NosferatuZodd@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

for me it was very unreliable, I have an i7 7th gen hp envy from I think 2018 and I dual booted Windows and linux for more than a year now jumping distros every now and again just to get to know them better.

I first started with zorin OS and it was good, snappy, long battery life, stable I then tried popOS! and it was even better, I loved it until a few months in I started getting sudden crashes for some reason so I installed endeavourOS as it seems to be very popular and everyone was recommending it, but I immediately after installation started getting crashes every 30 or so minutes which was weird as no other OS linux or windows did that so it didn't seem hardware related I'm now using linux mint and it's wonderful so far

TLDR I daily drove half a dozen OSs and the only one that gave me trouble from the beginning was endeavourOS, which is weird because it feels like I'm the only one...

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I had the opposite experience. I have been using EndeavourOS on my desktop since November, zero issues. This weekend I've been distro hopping on my old MacBook pro and almost every distro had a problem. Some didn't boot, other had wifi issues, trackpad issues, keyboard volume keys not working, high CPU usage... EndeavourOS was the only one I tried that just worked out of the box with no issues

[–] NosferatuZodd@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

that's what I hear everyone say, which makes my experience with it all the more weird... I'll just blame HP

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