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There are no standard GNOME wallpapers, just the EndeavourOS one.

At least, we have the new GNOME Text editor, which replaces the (IMHO) unusable “Gedit”. Standard GNOME applications like “Calendar” and “Contacts” are not installed either. The terminal is the new “GNOME Console”, which I’ll soon replace with the old “GNOME Terminal” (I prefer that one). However, there’s no GNOME extension installed (the first one I installed was “AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support”). It’s good that “GNOME Tweaks” is already installed. In fact, EndeavourOS provides GNOME with the “Qogir” icons, which look great to me:īesides that, I seem to understand that’s vanilla GNOME (it does not have “minimize” and “maximize” buttons enabled by default). You see that these are not the standard GNOME icons. First impressionsĪs usual, the GRUB menu is beautifully pink and purple: This is an old computer (6 years old), so it was pretty fast. The installation went fine, and it took about 5 minutes. So I select this other disk from the top drop-down list, and I specify the final mount points:Īs usual, there’s the “Users” section, which I will not detail.įinally, we can have a look at the summary, which looks good to me: I also have another HD on this computer with some existing partitions I want to access from the installed system. That’s the final layout of the primary SSD disk:

There’s also an existing EXT4 partition that I use to share common data among my Linux installations, so I select that (without formatting it) and specify my desired mount point: Then, I select the (existing) partition I’m going to replace with this installation I specify to format it as BTRFS and mount it as the root partition:

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This way, the installer can properly install GRUB.

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Since I have another (EndeavourOS) Linux installation and Windows on this computer, I choose Manual partitioning:įirst, I specify to mount the existing EFI partition (into “/boot/efi”) without formatting it and ensure the “boot” flag is selected. The default is “systemd-boot”, but I prefer to stay with GRUB (since I know it works for my use cases like booting Timeshift snapshots and booting other distros):

Now there’s a big novelty: you can select the bootloader. Then, I typically unselect “xf86-video-intel”, which is known to give a few problems:Īnd I select all the packages concerning “Printing Support” (including “HP”) and also the “LTS kernel in addition” (because if anything goes wrong with the latest kernel, I can switch to the LTS one). Since you choose the packages after selecting the desktop, a few packages, in particular, the ones of the chosen desktop, have already been selected: The location has been found successfully, and while the language is the one I chose, it proposes to use my Italian locale for dates and numbers:Īfter setting the keyboard layout, I select the GNOME desktop:Īnd then, I can select the single packages. I always prefer to install any operating systems in English, so I select “American English”: I choose the “Online” method because I want to install GNOME instead of Xfce.

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Then, let’s update the mirrors (typically by selecting your state and possibly another one near you) with the “Welcome” application: You might also want to change the keyboard layout (Disable system defaults and install your layout, in my case, it’s the Italian layout): I got another menu (that’s something new), where I selected GRUB:Īs usual, the first thing to do, once booted into the live environment, XFCE, is set up the network connection. Moreover, once I selected the “Cassini” ISO:

I first made sure to update Ventoy because I read that the old versions did not work correctly with the latest Arch-based ISOs. Installationįirst, I’m using Ventoy to boot the installer because I keep several Linux ISOs on the USB stick. This time, I’ll install GNOME (but I’ll briefly say something about the KDE version at the end of this article). Indeed, the KDE and GNOME environments are vanilla ones, with only a few customizations. Most of all, EndeavourOS is pure Arch but with outstanding defaults. Moreover, they switched from “mkinitcpio” to “dracut” for the generation of initramfs ( this requires a few adjustments if you want to enable hibernation). This installation is smooth, with some novelties: you can choose between “grub” and “systemd-boot” now. I’ll first go through the installation, but I can anticipate that, once again, I’m impressed by EndeavourOS. However, I wanted to try this new release by installing it from scratch (of course, using BTRFS). Since EndeavourOS, based on Arch, is a rolling release, I update it almost daily and don’t need to install it from scratch when a new release comes out, like Cassini, released a few days ago. I have already blogged about EndeavourOS, which I use most of the time on all my computers (desktops and laptops).

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