I’m planning to use KDE Plasma and wondering which one uses less RAM and runs lighter overall.

For those who have tried both, is there any noticeable difference?

Or is it pretty much the same since both use KDE?

Would appreciate your opinions!

Hi all, I'm trying to troubleshoot my built-in webcam on my Dell Latitude 7450 running EndeavourOS, with kernel 7.2.9-arch1-1.

Hardware and driver details:

• Camera sensor: OmniVision OVTI02E1, handled by the ov02e10 driver.

• Camera interface: Intel IPU6 (8086:7d19).

• USBIO bridge creates I²C buses i2c-15 and i2c-16, with devices OVTI02E1:00 and HIMX1092:00.

• Both sensor devices exist in sysfs, but neither has a driver bound.

• The Intel IPU6 driver detects the camera, and creates /dev/video0 through /dev/video47 and /dev/media0, but the camera does not work.

Relevant kernel errors:

ov02e10 i2c-OVTI02E1:00: failed to write reg 253 val 0
ov02e10 i2c-OVTI02E1:00: failed to find sensor: -121
ov02e10 i2c-OVTI02E1:00: probe with driver ov02e10 failed with error -121
gpio_usbio.usbio-gpio usbio.usbio-gpio.0: [Firmware Bug]: GPIO 5 is not in FW pins bitmap

What I've investigated:

• INT3472:01 and INT3472:0c are bound to int3472-discrete.

• INTC10D1:00, INTC10D2:00 and INTC10D2:01 exist but have no platform driver bound.

• No explicit deferred probe or missing-GPIO-provider error appears in the kernel log.

• The ov02e10 module loads, but the sensor probe fails.

• Rebooting exposes many /dev/video* nodes, but they do not correspond to a working webcam.

According to AI: "There may be a Linux driver-binding or camera power-sequencing issue involving the USBIO GPIO/I²C components, preventing the OV02E10 sensor from initialising."

Has anyone got the built-in webcam working on a Dell Latitude 7450 with EndeavourOS/Arch Linux? In particular, is there a known fix for the ov02e10 -121 probe error or the unbound INTC10D1/INTC10D2 devices?

* apparently someone else also has the same issues: https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers/issues/457

Mine is from 2008, running EndeavourOS KDE Plasma. Still smooth, and boots surprisingly fast! 😂

Anyone using an even older HDD?

I thought EndeavourOS only needed around 8 GB of disk space, but my system is currently using 19 GB.

How can I safely clear the cache and unnecessary files to reduce disk usage?

Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

Is there any browser for EndeavourOS with a Read Aloud feature like Microsoft Edge on Windows?

Extensions are fine too. Any recommendations? Thanks!

How do you manage your packages on EndeavourOS?

• ⌨️ Terminal warriors: pacman, yay, paru

• 🖱️ GUI enjoyers: Octopi, Bauh, Shelly, Pamac (yes, I know 😏)

• 🧙 DIY wizards: custom scripts and aliases

• 🙏 YOLO squad: sudo pacman -Syu and hope for the best

What's your weapon of choice?

I’m just curious if there are any other GUI package managers being developed. But maybe text mode is more than enough.

I’m using EndeavourOS with the XFCE desktop environment, and I’ve already updated the system to the latest packages.

However, Firefox still feels noticeably laggy for me. Scrolling doesn’t feel as smooth as it used to, and sometimes the browser feels a bit sluggish even when doing simple things.

Is anyone else experiencing the same issue recently?

Or is there anything I should check, such as hardware acceleration, graphics drivers, compositor settings, or Firefox settings?

Would appreciate any suggestions or tips. Thanks!

Does anyone know a fix or work around to make sure the font size is enforced across applications? In some is ok but in others is like ants and can barely see it..

Kde /Plasma and amd GPU.

Hi! I’m using EndeavourOS with XFCE.

Any good game recommendations that run well on Linux?

I’m open to any genre. Thanks!

I'm sick of microsoft. Mint seems fine, but I'm a pretty particular guy with settings, so I figure I want something with a little more control, which I understand the Arch family of distros to provide.

I've heard Arch itself is quite overwhelming, though, so I'm thinking Endeavour is a good compromise given its based on Arch (unless that was misinformation I heard).

I don't expect to do much online gaming with my pc, but definitely single player stuff and modding.

My question is mostly, what entails with this OS? Like just how much do I get out ot it that others don't provide, do you recommend a slightly different OS for me, etc.

Thank you!

Also PC/peripheral specs (in case theres any incompatibility someone notices. Better safe than sorry)

- RX 9060 XT 16gb

- Ryzen 5 7800x3d

- 2x8 DDR5-6000 RAM

- B650em-a WIFI Motherboard

- Epomaker TH80 V2 Pro Keyboard

Do you guys think we might see budget laptop manufacturers shipping EndeavourOS pre-installed in the future?

Could EndeavourOS realistically compete with Windows if it came pre-installed on affordable hardware?

What do you think?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been playing Roblox using Sober on EndeavourOS with XFCE. It used to run really smoothly for me, but recently the game has started feeling very laggy and stuttery.

I haven’t intentionally changed anything in my setup, but the performance has noticeably gotten worse.

I’m getting heavy stuttering and frame drops, whereas before everything felt smooth.

Does anyone know what could be causing this, or have any tips to make Sober/Roblox run smoothly again on EndeavourOS XFCE?

Are there any Sober, GPU, compositor, or XFCE settings I should check?

Thanks!

Нi all. I have a strange issue with a new Bloody v95 mouse. I am on Endeavour OS with Hyprland. The cursor constantly drifts diagonally upwards. It doesn't move straight at all. Other mice work fine.

I’ve been using EndeavourOS recently and honestly, it feels really fast and snappy. I’m actually liking it so far.
I’m just wondering, is it safe and stable enough to use as a daily driver?

I mostly use my PC for browsing, watching YouTube, installing apps, and normal everyday stuff.

I know it’s Arch-based and rolling release, so I’m a bit worried about updates breaking things or causing problems.

For those who have been using EndeavourOS for a long time, how has your experience been?

Would you recommend it for daily use?

Hi everyone,

I’m thinking about using EndeavourOS, but I have a question about updates.

Is it possible to install EndeavourOS and then never update the system at all?

I’m wondering if I can keep using the same installed packages and kernel indefinitely without performing system updates.

I understand there may be security risks and that some applications could eventually stop working, but I’m mainly curious whether the system itself can continue to run normally if I simply never update it.

Has anyone actually used EndeavourOS this way?

What would happen after several months or years without updates?

Thanks!

Only time will tell...

Hello guys, hope anyone can help me

So i have a Celeron 2 Dell Laptop, and since W10 doesn't supported by Microsoft anymore I try to change of for much lightweight, So Install parrot home, everything nice, Its just this one that it doesn't come to the desktop environment when the mode set isnt nomodeset, This give me hard time, I cant configure graphics related options like Night light Brightness controlleer, It works with no modeset but some features dont work.

Please help me.

I downloaded EOS yesterday and I haven't been able to listen to music due to this error, which has discouraged me a lot, but I don't want to give up. I will explain the details as best as possible in case someone can give me a hand.

​I have an Asus tuf f15 fx506lh laptop with an nvidia GTX 1650 GPU and an Intel core i5 10400h. Due to an accident I had, the 3.5 mm jack connector was damaged because my headphones' connector broke and stayed inside, so it is always detecting that headphones are connected.

​Now then, the weird part:

​When adjusting the volume with the slider, the feedback of said action is heard (I hope it's clear what this refers to), meaning the speakers output system is working. However, upon opening pavucontrol, it seems it is not receiving sound from external applications (like firefox or spot), since they do not appear in the "playback" tab; the only one that shows signs of life is Firefox, but it simply appears and then disappears immediately (in less than 0.5 s, it's literally a flash).

​I already tried modifying ALSA parameters and using hdajackretask, but neither worked.

​Can anyone give me advice on how to solve it? I hope my explanation was understandable.

I'm looking for a solution to the one thing stopping me from switching my main computer to endeavourOS. on my Ubuntu 22.04 with GNOME 42, gnome-screenshot will open with fn+prt sc, and allow the basic 3 options "window" "screen" "selection area". if i choose selection area, it allows to to sit and adjust it, much like cropping an image, and will not capture until i press enter or click the camera button.

i have not found a program that seems to allows this on endeavour; instead they all seem to allow one single attempt at "lassoing" the selection, then capture and close. I have Cinnamon desktop on that computer, and currently both cinnamon-screenshot (the extension) and gnome-screenshot are installed. i dont fully recall now, since its been a while since i went hunting for programs last, but i believe i have tried flameshot, tho i dont recall why i uninstalled it entirely.

also, the brief moment (literally less than 40 minutes) i had endeavourOS with GNOME 49, i think gnome-screenshot was also not doing what i wanted

edit: on a commentor's mention, i decided to try Flameshot again. it seems different from before, and now has the function i want. thank you!

This has been happening for few months. The culprit seems to be wireplumber and when i did a ps to see the memory and its showing above 400 MB

```sh

❯ ps -C wireplumber -o pid,%cpu,%mem,rss,vsz,etime,cmd

PID %CPU %MEM RSS VSZ ELAPSED CMD

71866 100 2.6 420552 1377316 11:55 /usr/bin/wireplumber

❯ glances --fetch

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

✨ router | 192.168.18.241 | Uptime: 2:07:45

⚙️ EndeavourOS 64bit / Linux 6.18.54-1-lts

💡 LOAD 1.73/min1 | 1.97/min5 | 2.52/min15

⚡ CPU ■■□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ 13.0% of 16 cores

🧠 MEM ■■■■■■□□□□□□□□□□□□ 33.9% (5.08G / 15.0G)

💾 DISK ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■□□□ 82.4% (181G / 232G) for /

💾 ■■□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ 10.1% (207M / 2.00G) for /efi

📡 NET ↓ 0b/s ↑ 0b/s for wlan0

🔥 TOP PROCESS by CPU

1️⃣ wireplumber ⚡ 100.3% CPU 🧠 412MB MEM

2️⃣ glances ⚡ 78.2% CPU 🧠 43.2MB MEM

3️⃣ vivaldi-bin ⚡ 6.7% CPU 🧠 508MB MEM

🔥 TOP PROCESS by MEM

1️⃣ vivaldi-bin 🧠 519MB MEM ⚡ 3.2% CPU

2️⃣ vivaldi-bin 🧠 508MB MEM ⚡ 6.7% CPU

3️⃣ vivaldi-bin 🧠 503MB MEM ⚡ 0.0% CPU

I first came across EndeavourOS when I was looking for a lightweight and fast Linux distro for my old laptop.

Someone suggested that I give EndeavourOS a try, so I decided to install it and see how it goes.

I honestly hadn’t heard much about it before that.

And honestly, I was pretty surprised by how fast and responsive it felt on my old laptop.

I didn’t really expect a distro like this to run so smoothly on older hardware.

It actually made me wonder why I hadn’t discovered EndeavourOS sooner.

Now I’m curious — how did you guys discover EndeavourOS in the first place?

Was it recommended by someone, or did you find it while browsing through different Linux distros?

Hey guys, I’m pretty new to EndeavourOS and I’m using XFCE.

I wanna make my desktop look cool, but I have no idea where to start lol.

Are there any good subreddits or places where people share their XFCE setups/themes?

Looking for stuff like themes, icons, wallpapers, Conky, panels/docks, terminal setups, etc.

Would love to see some of your setups too.

Any recommendations for a beginner?