Artemis Nova is here

23 Comments

Josef · September 15, 2022 at 5:26 pm

EOS is the best distribution I have ever used! Thank you.

Bryanpwo · September 16, 2022 at 10:52 am
Thank you!

MacLeod · September 17, 2022 at 11:13 am
It is a great distribution, but it lacks out of the box pamac as if Antergos had it. That’s why I use Manjaro and non Endeavour.

Bruno · September 15, 2022 at 8:03 pm

Samba, gvfs and Google Accounts still doesn’t work OTB.

Bryanpwo · September 16, 2022 at 10:51 am
You have to install and configure it yourself. Just explore this very same website about what this distro is about.

Mel · September 17, 2022 at 10:19 am
I’m typing this from a “Samsung Galaxy Tab A (2016)” tablet, so please bear with me. (It’ll also be impossible for me to “scroll up” to look for the technical-lingo I am asking-about, while I type this (I’m typing this utilizing the on-screen–keyboard of the tablet)).
First of all,
A short introduction about how I used Linux (beginning with my Introduction to the GNU+Linux operating-system as my daily-driver):
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I have a Asus P43E-XH31. It came with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.
One day, [unfortunately], it refused to boot into Windows.
I don’t know-why.
It was working like-a-dream the day before.
I press F8 upon boot (because the instruction-manual says to press F8 to go to the [preinstalled/preconfigured] Recovery partition).
Nothing happens.
I manage to create a LiveUSB of a Linux distribution, on a friend’s laptop, and in that laptop, I go to the Help chatroom for that distro to try to get help installing Linux in a empty unused “D”-partition that came in my laptop straight from the factory.
I get assistance installing the-Linux-distro in there.
After I do all the steps counseled by the Linux-distro helpers, I restart my computer and what-do-you-know?: The “G.R.U.B.”-Bootloader immediately-detects my Windows-7 “C” partition, the Recovery partition, and the partition where I installed the-Linux-distro. The “G.R.U.B.”-Bootloader even allows me to select [and go to] the Recovery partition if I want to.
Linux basically saved my computer and made it usable again.
P.S. I have since been-able to go to Windows again, without any problems, and if Windows doesn’t boot-up, I just go to Linux (which *ALWAYS* boots-up-on-me without any problems), and I access through-The-File-Manager the Windows-partition and get my files that I need (pictures, videos, music-files, Word documents, etcetera), and continue to work [/do my job] from Linux.
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I have heard that that “OS-Prober”-thing is very important (and that it, among other things, is what was responsible for detecting if my laptop’s hard-drive already-had a operating-system in it).
I’d like to know, with this and future-versions of EndeavourOS (my CURRENT daily-driver), what I have to do to make-sure that “OS Prober” thing works the way its supposed to. I would also like-to-know how to activate it but thus-far the search-results in Google, Duckduckgo, Startpage dot com, etc, haven’t been much help. 🙁 .
Also: I have been updating EndeavourOS utilizing the “Update Operating-System” in the “Welcome”-window that opens-up on a fresh install of EndeavourOS (I haven’t utilized the “make this stop automatically-appearing”-option yet, and I’m not going-to).
The occasions that there is an update I just try-to-follow as-best-I-can what the instructions-given-in-the-Terminal are, but the “Diff to show?” doesn’t say much and/or is-not “self-explanatory”, and Linux is-supposed-to-be “case sensitive” but when the-Terminal asks “Y/n ?” there is no-indication what would happen if you were to put-in “y” instead-of “Y”;
and likewise, the-Terminal doesn’t tell you “what would happen if?” you press “enter” on the keyboard without-typing-anything-first when the Terminal asks-you “Diff to show?” and/or “Y/n ?”, or why some of the options given after the-question “Diff to show?” are in Dark-Green and the other options are in White
(sometimes, after analyzing the possible options, it looked-like the options in one colour were the “default options” and the OTHER options were the “NOT–Default options”, but i don’t really-know for sure.
and this is coming from a guy who, despite being computer-savvy and all,
attempting to do spring-cleaning on his computer, (this was back in 1997), moved all the contents of his “C”-drive (files, folders, etcetera) from the “C” drive to the “Desktop”, thinkimg that it would be fine (because as far as i knew, the “Desktop” was still-part of the “C”-drive), and after doing that, it made the computer really-really-slow, so i rebooted the computer, thinking that would fix the problem (ie. the slowness), and what ended-up happening is that the computer didn’t even boot-up into the operating-system O_O !),
etcetera.
I’d like-to-know where-and/or-how to update Grub (the Grand Unified Bootloader (I took the “Introduction to Linux”-course that the-Linux-Foundation mentioned; it helped SOME but not alot [in terms of all these technical–instructions that i’m now seeing)), now that the EndeavourOS release-notes are-saying that Grub will-not be updated–by-default anymore.
I would-also like-to-know what-exactly does “Grub tools” *do*, and, why is it necessary (IF there is ANY reason *why* it is necessary; perhaps by knowing what “Grub tools” is, i can find-out if it is necessary and/or NOT necessary).
I would-also like-to-know how-exactly to “set GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false in /etc/default/grub” (as written in the instructions “If you want grub to automatically detect other OSes, you will need to enable os-prober by setting GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false in /etc/default/grub”).
It sounds like i need to modify a text-file or something, but i’m not-exactly sure.
(and, like i said before,
from prior experience,
i rather not-mess with stuff that i don’t know. because the consequences could be DISASTROUS. (as very-clearly-seen before)).
i honestly have no-idea (in this particular case, at-least) what you mean-by “custom Grub theme”. Grub’s always looked fine to me. It showed the option to select “EndeavourOS LTS kernel”, “EndeavourOS LTS kernel” with something-else i don’t recall right-now what it was, “EndeavourOS” regular kernel, “EndeavourOS” regular-kernel with something-else i don’t recall right-now what it was, Windows 7, Windows 7 recovery environment, and the “hidden” recovery-partition that came preinstalled by Asus from the factory
(my laptop came with a “hidden” 25-gigabyte “Recovery” partition, a 200-gigabyte “OS”-labeled “C”-partition, and a 225-gigabyte “DATA”-labeled *EMPTY* “D”-partition, straight–out-of-the-box, from the factory).
Many–thanks-so-much for helping me out with all these issues and questions 🙂
i have been enjoying EndeavourOS IMMENSELY ever-since i started using-it in its “Atlantis”-version, and my intent has been that in the next 3 computers i get (Thinkpad T470p. Thinkpad X230. Thinkpad T420) to replace its “preinstalled “Windows 10 for Refurbished computers” “-OEM-installation with EndeavourOS (and likewise [do the same thing] with a T470S and a X140E & X130E, if i ever get those), and likewise with any new laptop i get, and also when i build my tower computer (i’m planning on using EndeavourOS as my “daily driver”; it’ll have Windows 98, Windows XP, and Windows 7, *each* in its own separate hard-drive, for old computer-games i have that work in only those respective operating-systems).
Once-again many-thanks for helping-me-out with the previously-mentioned questions 🙂 .
And also: Continued-Kudos to all of you for making such an AWESOME operating-system 🙂

Mel · September 17, 2022 at 10:44 am
Reading-back my post after I read it & posted it,
I should probably also-mention something-else:
I was told by the helpers of the first distro I used to use Gparted to delete the empty “D”-partition that was labeled “DATA”, and in its place create a empty “Extended”-partition with all of the newly-created available space, and inside that “Extended”-partition create:
● a 30-gigabyte partition in the “EXT4”-file-system for the “system” install,
● a 8-gigabyte partition in the “linux-swap” file-system for the “swap”,
and a ● “EXT4”-file-system with the REST-of-the-space, for the “Home” / “Home” partition / “Home” folder.
I have been doing it that way since, on any Linux distro that I install in my computer that I want to “daily drive” with another operating-system on
(except that right-now I am using a 100-gigabyte “EXT4”-file-system partition for the “System” install,
after out-of-the-blue, in my PREVIOUS Linux-distro (Debian-based by the way; and came Preinstalled with the program called “Timeshift”), i started getting alerts that “you are running-out of disk-space”, despite the fact that in the Timeshift setup wizard, i set the backups to be “RSYNC” and “WEEKLY” and-only “1 time per week” AND “save only the most-recent 3 backups/timeshifts/restore-points/whatever-they’re-called” (so i have *NO*-IDEA why it** was telling me i was running-out of disk-space).
**(whatever it was that was telling me i was running-out of disk-space; the operating-system or the Timeshift-program itself. i dunno. i’d just get a pop-up notification saying i was running-out of disk-space)

Hank · September 16, 2022 at 2:46 pm

I just did an update and when running grub-install I get an error saying “install device isn’t specific”, what am I supposed to do from here?