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Does the bird one actually work? Nature can get pretty loud, I could see that being an issue.

Fair enough… It’s been nearly a month since I commented here so I don’t remember the exact situation, but if having a lot of updates was an issue, then yeah maybe not EndeavourOS. There may be LTS versions, but since it’s based on Arch, I’m not sure. I personally don’t mind it, and have yet to have a single issue with an update “breaking” something (though I have Timeshift set up to take a snapshot before updating just in case), but I guess

I could see someone being annoyed by having the little thing pop-up to tell you how many things you could update, but I kind of like it I think. It kinda feels like I’m very slowly, incrementally, making my laptop better, albeit usually in ways I can’t even perceive at the time.

But hey, everyone has their preferences. That’s why there’s a billion distros to choose from.

I second EndeavourOS. My first distro and it’s been a great experience. I’ve felt no desire to switch.

Steam/games have worked great.

You can do all of that with most basic file explorers. I use Dolphin on KDE. Change the view to “details” and right click the top and choose which metadata fields you want to show up. Then you can sort or filter using metadata.

But regardless of what distro they use, they’re probably going to have to Google stuff every now and then. If they’re not ready for that, then maybe they’re not ready for Linux.

I switched a few months ago, and EndeavorOS is the only distro I’ve used and see no reason to switch. It’s been fantastic.

Recently switched to Linux a couple months ago and can’t recommend EndeavorOS more. It’s great.

I’ll look into it, thanks.

Tocuhpad worked fine with 3+ fingers when it was still running Windows (before I put Linux on it).

I’ll look into using KWin for this. As I said in the other reply, I’m using Wayland, so if that’s a feature from X, that could be why I can’t do it currently.

I’m on Wayland these days. I’ll keep that in mind though if I ever need to switch back to X for whatever reason.

FYI, I just switched to Linux few months ago from Windows and have been using Arch/EndeavorOS with KDE, and have had a wonderful experience.

I have a relative who’s been using Linux for years, and that’s the one they helped me install. I needed their help a handful of times the first couple of weeks, but since then I’ve been on my own and I love it.

Depends if you want bleeding edge or not. I don’t mind it, but I get update notifications like 3x a week.

Oh hell yeah, three/four finger touchpad gestures. Been wondering why tf I can’t do that on my laptop.

Edit: ah 3d gestures. The little hand showed 3 fingers, so maybe it’s kind of implementing it in the background as part of that fix? Or maybe it’s already a thing in kde and I’m just dumb lol.

If anyone is running kde on a laptop, and is able to use more than 2 fingers at once for touchpad gestures, please let me know how.

I had to get a plug-in to add click to play/pause so it’s like almost every streaming site. Also, I don’t believe there’s a way to get it to automatically play the next video file in the folder after one video finished, without making a playlist.

Small gripes, I know. I’m coming from MPC on Windows so I miss some of those features.

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