#joekamprad’s EndeavourOS BLOG:

Thoughts and Thinking on EndeavourOS

Some of my thinking and ideas for EnOS will be here shortly:

#Why we do endeavour to create and maintain EndeavourOS at all?

The EndeavourOS Team is developing EndeavourOS out of a passion for creating a Linux distribution that empowers users to truly understand and control their system. EndeavourOS was born from the idea that simplicity, transparency, and learning should be at the heart of a modern operating system. Instead of hiding the inner workings behind automation or overwhelming users with unnecessary complexity, the team aims to bridge the gap between approachability and technical depth.

As experienced Linux users and community builders, the EndeavourOS Development Team recognized that many people wanted the flexibility and performance of Arch Linux but were intimidated by its steep learning curve. EndeavourOS provides a smart middle ground — an Arch-based system that remains close to upstream while offering An accessible installer, sensible defaults, and a welcoming community. The team’s development philosophy centers on enabling users to grow their skills. Every tool and script is designed to be open, understandable, and optional, encouraging exploration rather than dependency. Following the idea to give the info on how things work with tutorials instead of setting up everything everyone could need one day by default. Giving a blanc canvas to start customizing the OS and Desktop to your personal needs.

Beyond technical goals, the EndeavourOS Development Team is driven by a strong sense of community and collaboration. EndeavourOS is not a product — it’s a collective effort of enthusiasts who share knowledge and improve the project together. The developers nurture this environment by maintaining transparency in decisions, valuing user feedback, and keeping the project free of corporate influence.

Ultimately, the EndeavourOS Development Team develops EndeavourOS to keep the spirit of Linux alive: curiosity, freedom, and self-reliance. Through their work, they give both newcomers and experienced users a platform to learn, customize, and take full ownership of their systems — turning the Distribution into a shared journey of discovery, empowerment and endevour!

#AUR RAT / security?

https://news.itsfoss.com/arch-linux-spark-rat

https://linuxsecurity.com/features/chaos-rat-in-aur

https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1m3r2mo/arch_linux_pulls_aur_packages_that_installed/?tl=de

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/more-rats-found-in-aur/73963?page=2

I mean yes EndeavourOS delivers OS installs with yay installed by default, thats a very two sided sword.

On one hand we are not responsible for the AUR and we do not install builds from the AUR by default, we have some packages in the repo we do take from AUR but the process is controlled by humans.

Any user should get informed about the AUR before going to use it, but.. i do see new users not having a clue about what even is a Repo-Package or a PKGBUILD. Using yay and searching for names and installing something not knowing what is happen at all while doing this. We could indeed remove yay from getting installed or put a portal on usage:

People simple do not read, and do not get the info. Not much we can do about.

A lot of users know what they are doing on EndeavourOS and it would annoy these staples if we add portal or remove things only to benefit the stupids 😉

Personal i like the Portal idea, lets see if it will happen.. I start with adding a scriptlet to .bashrc this is easy to remove in case you do not want it.

#
# ~/.bashrc
#

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[[ $- != *i* ]] && return

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
PS1="[\[\e[35m\]\u\[\e[m\]\[\e[31m\]@\[\e[m\]\[\e[34m\]\h\[\e[m\]]\\$\[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[m\]\[\e[36m\]:\[\e[m\] "
#PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '

bind '"\e[A":history-search-backward' # history with arrow up key
bind '"\e[B":history-search-forward' # history with arrow down key

export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin

yay() {
    # Red, bold "WARNING" heading
    echo -e "\e[1;31m\e[1mWARNING\e[0m" >&2
    echo -e "\e[0;33mYou use yay, which allows you to build and install AUR packages.\e[0m" >&2
    echo -e "\e[0;33mAUR packages are user-produced content.\e[0m" >&2
    echo -e "\e[0;33mThese PKGBUILDs are completely unofficial and have not been thoroughly vetted.\e[0m" >&2
    echo -e "\e[0;33mAny use of the provided files is at your own risk.\n\e[0m" >&2

    read -rp "Do you want to continue? (y/N): " confirm
    if [[ "$confirm" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
        /usr/bin/yay "$@"
    else
        echo "Aborted."
        return 1
    fi
}

#Archlinux a collaborative pirate ship?

We do collaborate with all the different Distros also are on the same boat, there is collaboration on Distros using Calamares, and we do have Collaboration with other ARCH -Based Distros, it is one of our core ideas to collaborate.

But it is true that forces could be bundled in a much more collaborative way, but as all of them mainly started and running as personal projects, and holden together a bigger Group of Developers and Maintainers would need another structure, then relay on one Persons Character only.

Working together on a bigger Project with bundled powers will need money to pay contribution time for the ones in a leading position, as it will need some full-time Developers/Leaders to hold it all together.

And yes I do think this could be possible in the future, more and more younger people will go another way on building business, something with meaning and not with the goal of maximizing profit but with the goal of doing something for the community.

#influx-growing-trolls-community

Lately some green tornado happen somewhere on another Distro, a lot users screaming into EndeavourOS Forum:

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/stability-vs-manjaro

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-endeavouros-and-manjaro

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/little-things-the-ex-manjaro-user-needs-to-know-d

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/what-do-former-manjaro-users-like-about-eos

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/manjaro-to-endeavouros-experiences

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/why-choose-endeavouros-over-manjaro/

For a week it was looking like a storm of Grasshoppers taking over the friendly EndeavourOS-communities living room with a lot of unfriendly and disturbing actions.. But the team of moderators was on the track, we have some conversation about what we can do to calm that down.

And “wahu” it was working! A great team of people knowing only from virtual communication start working together and bring back that positive vibe to the forum!

The reason to start EndeavourOS was exactly that a friendly welcoming community, with users from all states on Linux to help each other and having fun while doing that.

Thanks all you strangers at the Forum Moderators Group! If it stays like that i am happy do be part of that, more then before.

Friede Freude and Eierkuchen for all of you!

#VIBES

#ARE

#POSITIVE!

Our Forum at https://forum.endeavouros.com is what we are at our core, a positive vibed community with a fantastic group of moderators, and a core team behind this knitting everything together!

And sure… there is our installer, for an easy install, developed by 4 Ex-Moderators from Antergos forum… and yes we are acknowledged on some coding and on Archlinux too but we are still Rookies on what we are doing with ArchISO and calamares, it will sometimes open a rabbit hole, and on others showing a better paved road …

So question netinstall? yes we went into a rabbit hole, but we get back to what is our goal “KEEP IT SIMPLE!” and yes we simply come back out of the Rabbit Hole and back to a paved road to launch the netinstaller asap!

This will a fire-in-the-hole test:

involved shutting down the descent rocket, blowing the bolts that attached the ascent and descent stages, switching control and power to the ascent stage, and igniting the ascent rocket while still nestled to the landing stage… Source: en.wikipedia.org

We do endeavour for you!

This Linux (EndeavourOS) is utterly unapologetic in catering to technology hobbyists, enthusiasts, and power users. It’s for the amateurs, in that best and most original sense of the word—those who love what they do. Awesome. So isn’t Endeavour the perfect name?

Source: opensource.com

Universal EndeavourOS ISO

sa_28_mär_2020

Development testing a new ISO which can boot on Nvidia propritary Drivers or Nouveau (OpenSource) from the same ISO!

So that users with very new Nvidia GPU’s can use Nvidia boot option to be able to boot, and also older GPU’s (legacy Nvidia) will be able to boot.