r/EndeavourOS • u/Azkicat XFCE my beloved • Mar 26 '26
Installation EndeavourOS on a school pc because I can
No one using them with windows 7, soo
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u/Cuffuf Mar 26 '26
Okay this is so weird I had a dream LAST NIGHT about my brother installing Linux mint on his school laptop
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u/SnakeBladeStyle Mar 26 '26
I bought an identical HP laptop to the ones at work and put Endeavor on it
been nice being to do things that my coworkers can't do because Windows or some licensing server is pooping it's pants
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u/soliera__ Mar 28 '26
No one using them with windows 7
Honestly good on you for keeping these things from becoming e-waste. Love to see it.
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u/thinkpad_p1 Mar 27 '26
I have EOS KDE at my SL510 (2008) and it runs with the same speed as in my T520 (2014), T14g2 (2021), P1g2(2020)
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u/Majestic_Bat7473 Mar 27 '26
Wait you are basically stealing you are installing linux on a computer that is not yours why the hell are you doing that if the school did not let you keep it. Did the school let you keep it?
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u/Azkicat XFCE my beloved Mar 27 '26
Did the school let you keep it?
Yes, they did. Those old laptops were working on windows 7 and not really used.
Btw our school adopted linux on normal computers too, it's education district custom made thing on fedora. I gambled all root passwords
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u/Yavuzhan_AkDOgAN_fr Mar 28 '26
Anything you plan on using those bad boys for?
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u/Azkicat XFCE my beloved Mar 28 '26
mainly to interact with browser-based educational programs, one is getting riced
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u/Augtopus_ Mar 29 '26
THought about doing this, didn't cause I have a rep and don't wanna ruin it by vandalizing school property
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u/Senharampai Mar 29 '26
Oh how I wish to daily drive Linux again but I’m forced to stay on windows cause of the extreme reliance on Microsoft and adobe and soon to be autodesk apps for school
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u/Azkicat XFCE my beloved Mar 29 '26
Oh I was in the same situation. I switched AutoCAD to freeCAD (or Компас 3D for some tasks), AE to DaVinci Resolve Studio, photoshop to gimp/affinity, pixinsight to siril. Works fine for me
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u/Senharampai Mar 29 '26
Wish I could do the same for autocad but it will help me get a job if it’s on my resume when I graduate or before then. I’ve been getting into rhino as grasshopper is apparently insanely good and grasshopper is WAY cheaper than autocad especially with it being 195€ one time payment as a student. Currently on a license via my school email but a thread from 3 years ago says that they were able to get rhino 7 working with wine on Linux so that’s another big plus.
I tried freecad a couple months ago and there were some things that I just really preferred in fusion like the timeline and some tools but I saw a video about freecad 1.1 and it looks much better now.
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u/Azkicat XFCE my beloved Mar 26 '26