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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

It really has come a long way since the old times.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

Funny enough, I also flashed my (probably much older) HP Spectre X360 to endevourOS last week, works good, feels more responsive then PopOS was on it.

I then tried Bazzite on my desktop and the experience went much worse, seemingly because of Nvidia driver support still being pretty bad on linux. Oh well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

on nobara, nvidia drivers have never once been an issue for me.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

We may need a new forum: when Google is RIGHT about a search.

You've given me some interest in Endeavor. My current installation won't hibernate & restore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Endeavour is great, I daily it and as a Linux noob it's been very forgiving. My only annoyance is that I've been having some issues with the display where sometimes I'll wake it up and will only get a black screen and no means of doing anything to fix it. My laptop also really doesn't like me using any other DEs besides Budgie.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

my experience with hibernate issues is that its either a swap partition issue or there's not a cmos battery, but also idk my current system is like 7 years old so it could be something else broken

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

HA! True. Remember when Google was always right and always exactly what you were looking for?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Long ago. Check this one out if you want something that actually works and I think it's open source

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Linux is boring. In a good way. It is so boring that each of my computers use different distros. I have Debian, Fedora, Mint, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Endeavour OS installed across 4 or 5 computers right now. Some of them still dual-booting Windows 10/11. Now each time I boot into Windows is fun. In a bad way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Sound check (although a little quiet).

I have a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 and this was an issue on every Linux install I've had (Endeavour, Arch, and now Debian). I know it isn't a hardware issue because when I first installed Endeavour, I was dual booting with Win11 and it was, no joke, capable of easily twice the volume as Endeavour, and that was even after maxing everything out in Alsamixer. Really not sure what's going on there. I've been incredibly lucky with audio on Linux the entire time I've used it, this is the one black spot on my record.

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