 One of my favorite art space distributions is endeavor OS now I'd probably be using endeavor on my main system if it weren't for the fact that I like Arco so much But I did actually use endeavor on my laptop for Two or three months, and I really enjoyed it in a recent release They actually came out with two new window managers for us to try out So today we're gonna be taking a look at the BS PWM version of endeavor OS So let's go ahead and jump right in now. We're gonna be installing this in a virtual box Virtual machine. So let's go ahead and start this up so this will log us into a Live environment that's running X FCE and in order to install BS PWM We actually have to hit this here. Well now why they have these two separated out. I'm not sure maybe Because they're being maintained by separate people not exactly sure So because it's kind of like Manjaro does where Manjaro has the three official versions And then they have several community spins. This is kind of the same So we're just gonna select BS PWM here now let's up into the Calamari's installer. We'll select American English That's the proper time zone That's the proper keyboard We'll go ahead and erase this. We don't need a swap Let's probably using EXT4 I would guess So we got basically all the basic developer stuff here that you'll need This includes the video codecs and video drivers and X org and all that kind of stuff and then BS PWM And then you could add printing support or the Accessibility tools and stuff, but we don't need any of that stuff right now. Let's just go ahead and hit next We'll type in her name here and sweep I think that's fine and We'll just type in BS PWM I guess vert And Very long password and then we'll hit next and then install and install now Now this shouldn't take too very long But I do know that sometimes it's hung up around the 8% mark as it says here that even if you don't see any progress You should just go ahead and be patient. It even says be patient a couple times So we're just gonna be patient and I'll cut the video here and come back a few moments later Okay That was the longest Linux install I've had in almost two years That was almost 15 to 20 minutes it was closer to 20 minutes worth of Install right there and they weren't entertaining 20 minutes if you know what I mean like Normally you can see the progress bar go, you know, like one percent at a time even if it's slow This one gets stuck at 8% and then I get stuck at 41% and there's a good reason why they've put those Slides in there and says be patient because if they hadn't said that I Would have stopped it thinking that it was, you know, not working so That is weird that it's just a little weird because this is not an And there was isn't like some special sauce or whatever that's you know installing Gentoo and compiling everything from scratch. It's just installing arch. I Almost could have installed arch in that time. In fact, I have installed arch in that time I'll granted it was with a script, but you know, it was very quick and this was not quick So there's something weird with that Anyways, we're installed. We're gonna go ahead and close this here and I'm gonna shut down. I Don't know why the screen is flashing That's something to do with not being in full screen, maybe Yeah, okay So we're just gonna power this down that way I can remove the the installation media from virtual box if I have to and I have to We'll start back up again Here we go. So this is light DM. It looks like Which is not surprising that seems to be the one that most distributions are settling on these days I know Arco is transitioned to SDDM because of a driver issue with light DM Let's go and sign in here. See what we got. So this is BS PWM as themed by the endeavor OS team or the community, I suppose We got poly bar up here. Welcome app and Dense notifications from my system, of course So let's go ahead and take a look at this well welcome apps. We got update mirrors update system Which we'll go ahead and do we shouldn't have anything here because it should have been an internet install Yep, good. Okay. Good. We got Package cleanup and configurations is something you can schedule to clean up your packages your your Pac-Man cache and probably I don't know if this would work on your like a you are helper cache, but maybe it would So you can schedule that if you want to Which apparently I want to why not so this is going to be comparing the packages that were installed using meld This year to change display manager, so this will allow you to go to do something different So we just changed that to SDDM. We can do that. Why not? That's cool. I Changed display resolution Reboot is required to for the changes to take effect. Okay. I knew that and Changed the default wallpaper choose one of the endeavor OS wallpapers I wonder why it wallpapers is on here now three times So you can download more might as well. Why not? Sure Wonder how you move I Thought in BSPWM you move the when floating windows around using the super key or the alt key I mean, it's usually one of the other right, but that doesn't work. Okay But we're gonna close that All right, so that's the welcome app ahead also has some Links to the wikis and your documentation stuff and some tips and stuff for using the UR and hardware and Bluetooth and Such and then some more apps that you might want to install. So we're going to just go ahead and Don't show me this anymore Okay, I remember. All right, so this is BSPWM, so we should be able to hit super enter for for terminal. Let's see. I'm betting This is termite. So let's see if neo fetches install which it is. So yep, this is termite So we're running endeavor OS Linux and we have a kernel of five dot eleven dot fifteen So that's like bleeding edge, which you'd expect because this is an arched Linux distro 787 packages at install we're using bash five dot one dot four And this is like I said BSPWM using the arc dark and arc XD themes And we got source code pro is the font in this terminal and I guess I this is termite, which is a Fantastic choice. I love myself some termite. So let's see sort of super queue. Does that quit it does? Okay, so We should have the standard layout here for BSPWM, which we do It's nothing special there we have Gaps is so let's go ahead and take a look at the BSPWM RC file. So let's see that should be located in Dot config BSPWM and then yep, we have So we'll Vim into BSPWM RC and Vim is not installed by default Interesting so pseudo pack man. Oops Dash S What is it with distributions is lately and not installing them out of the box I Mean I understand via is probably always there, right and I bet you nanos there It is So they install nano them and Vi comes, you know, I was pretty solid because it's Linux, but not them That's an interesting thing that is just I've noticed. It's not an Ubuntu. It's not in Now in devro s. I'm pretty sure it's not in one of the other ones that I've just recently tried didn't have them either popo s That's just an interesting choice. I just thought that Vim was much more popular than that But anyways, it doesn't matter. It's now installed. So we'll just Vim into BSPWM RC so We're starting sxHKD from the right at the beginning. We've given ourselves some Workspaces here, even though they don't have those labels when you go up here Interestingly that that's those are going to be defined by poly bar not here. So I guess that's just the way BSPWM does it We got gaps here and the ratio for the window So you notice when the when you spawn a new window this window over here is just a little bit bigger than this window here Borderless monocle that's for when you make things full screen. I believe And these are some rules for different applications mostly to allow them to be floating or whatnot And then we'll screw down a little bit. We got some borders some here some more auto start functions here for different scripts and nitrogen and Pi com here and the network manager applet and then a cursor prompt And that's literally the whole of the BSPWM RC file Which is very minimal where it's very nice. I prefer minimal configuration files. So there's just not a lot here now Our key bindings are going to be an sxHKD and Then we'll them into sxHKD RC. So we got super enter for turn super D starts Rofi So this is what Rofi looks like out of the box. That's pretty neat I'm not sure that color really goes with the rest of the thing they got going on here Because it's different color blue than everything else unless my eyes are deceiving me. It's more. This is more of a Nord color But you know, whatever that's something you can change very easily It might just be my eyes because I've never you know, my eyes are kind of blind Super control D gives us show open windows. So super control D That's the like though that just shows you the open windows. Okay, and then SSH sessions, which is also Rofi power menu super shift E It's also Rofi Okay, and then make sxHKD reload as configuration files, which is super escape, which is pretty much default for SSXHKD Closing kill is super shift Q Super alt Q or an R will restart the window manager Super Y will start the Will do the send the newest mark to node to the newest pre-selecting on so this is where BSPW I'm completely always loses me. I don't understand the whole pre-selection stuff that it does like supposedly if we I Don't even know what that does. I have no clue. I just have not used BSPWM enough to understand what it does So that's a me problem. It's a deficiency that one of these days. I'll actually go through and Fix and actually learn what BSPS BSPWM actually does but That day is not today So this will change the window state super T This is some complicated stuff here because you don't see this very often in sxHKD even though it's completely possible to do so changing the focus and That's it. That's the entire sxHKD file There's nothing here really to open up a ton of applications outside of the Rofi stuff So after you get done with Rofi, you don't have any key bindings for any application So that's just something you'd have to go through and you know add in afterwards if you're going to use this I would just use my own sxHKD file But the two configuration files I've looked at are both very very minimal and that's really cool because You don't want a lot of cruft Especially if you've used BSPWM before or use a window manager before because chances are you have your own Things that you we're gonna want to put in there And you don't want to have to go through and spend a whole bunch of time Pulling things out and having to uncomment things or remove a whole bunch of comments and stuff It's one of the few complaints I have about ARCO Linux is that their configuration files for every window manager of theirs I've tried all have just a ton a ton of comments and them stuff and well, that's great for new users for people who have you know Are just installing it because they want to you know use their stuff and know what they're doing It can be kind of annoying, but that's mostly just me being a whiny bitch. So Let's go ahead and take a look at the application So let's close this and we'll do super D and I can't make this any Actually, I wonder if I could so let's open back back up and zoom in So we'll just CDN2.config S a we're just do this live right on camera. We'll them to SS Vim into SXHK DRC and We'll see if we can easily change this font size. We can Make this 16 That way you can actually see it and then super escape should reload the SXHK DRC file And then we can do super D. Yes, that's bigger. Cool. All right, so Just a brief run through of what? That long installation actually went through and installed so so far at the top here. We have the about XFCE stuff So this is going to be using like a little bit of an XFCE back in so you can probably this probably has like the XFCE hardware manager and stuff like that bulk rename which is which comes with Thunar a Celluloid for multimedia. I love that this has like a description of what the stuff is competence here I'm assuming is PICOM also here because yes PICOM is also here. That's the second distribution in a row They had both PICOM and Compton installed That's just really weird for me because Compton is depreciated as far as I'm aware So we get the configure EOS update notifier Customize will customize look and feel this is gonna be the XFCE. I know this is this is LX appearance. Okay So in terms of themes you don't get a ton of things here. You just get ARC That's it. What about icons? Same thing with icons. You don't get a lot. There's ARC XP and paper That's it. Okay. So if you want extra themes, you're gonna have to install them yourselves. That's I mean, that's probably a good thing So we have Firefox as our web browser H top is installed by default icon browser light DM Reader setting so that's to change the light DM theme meld MPV for videos nitrogen for wallpapers Pulse audio is here QT Reflector simple is going to be for changing the mirrors for Arch Linux the Arch Linux mirrors removal drives the media software token termites here Thunar is your file manager and UX term is here and X term is here and Vim is something I installed So that is it in terms of software that's installed out of the box. No That just leaves me scratching my head because I'm not sure why the install took so long then They didn't install anything. So what was it downloading there in the background? It doesn't make any sense. So That's very curious to me. So this is a very very minimal install of Basically arch Linux. I mean, obviously if you Run neo fetch here You're not gonna get like an arch Linux logo, but you're using basically Arch Linux because that's not anything that they've installed on top of this other than BSPWM and Dependencies and then themed it. That's literally all they've seemed to have done If you're you're looking for an arch based distro, this would be a good option I'm not convinced that it's the best one out there. I I'm having some I'm having some issues with that install. I'm not sure what's going on there I'm having a feeling that it's a little bit buggy And that's not really how because I don't remember that happening when I installed it on my laptop It was much quicker and I don't really care about the time I mean the time is odd More it's the way it does thing how it gets hung up on certain percentages and just Doesn't look like it's doing anything. That's very weird Especially when they've gone to the trouble of actually opening up a terminal in the background to show you like the progress of What the it's doing and to show you what's doing in the background and To have that just kind of back there hanging as well It's very weird because it's supposed to be doing something It's supposed to be showing us what it's doing and yet it doesn't it's very Weird but in terms of I mean, I'm gonna switch back to this for a minute in terms of design. This is very pretty so we've got the 10 workspaces up there at the top it does have in like a keyboard shortcut cheat sheet thing Which you'd have to zoom in on so it shows you a few of the things I bet you this probably gets it veal a grep and your probably either greps out your sxhk drc file or Even it might just cat it out even I don't know But it's very simple and if you need to get to that you probably can assign that to its own key binding if you wanted to There's so few key bindings. You probably don't even really need it So that's that's that's really cool. It kind of reminds me of the thing that the awesome does only you know It's not quite as well put together There's a power managing button up here as well But like I said the design of this is very well done. It's very pretty and I really expected it to be because the X FCE Version of endeavor OS is also very pretty. So I'm wondering if the install problems that I was having Have to do with this being a community edition Maybe it's because it's not officially like part of the family or whatever that the reason why I was hanging up I'd have to go through and install the X FCE version again see if that thing has the same problems I mean, it's not a big deal. I mean As long as you have 20 25 minutes and to To burn it's not like it's not like you can you know at the end of the world because it seems working just fine So that is a first look at endeavor OS I think I still prefer our go to it just a little bit because it gives you more options that install It also has a lot bigger selection of window managers and stuff, but As a successor to antra ghost which when antra ghost was alive, it was my favorite arch based distro It was just always the one that I installed because it was just really really good And it seemed like the community was you know, also very good And that's one thing that endeavor kind of has inherited because the endeavor community is also just fantastic So if you need help if you're having some problems or whatever Definitely endeavor is one of the friendliest communities at least on the arch based side, you know what I mean? 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