EndeavorOS 23.11 Screenshot
Few ago The launch of the new version of EndeavorOS 23.11 was announced codenamed "Galileo", a version in which a series of important changes stand out, such as the replacement of XFCE with KDE Plasma as the default environment, the elimination of community editions in the installer and other changes.
For those who do not know about EndeavorOS, you should know this It is a distribution that replaced the Antergos distribution, whose development was discontinued in May 2019 due to the remaining maintainers' lack of free time to keep the project at the proper level.
Main new features of EndeavorOS 23.11 “Galileo”
In this new version, which is presented from EndeavorOS 23.11 "Galileo", It arrives based on the Linux Kernel 6.6.1, along with graphics stack mesa 1:23.2.1-2, xorg 21.1.9-1.
Regarding the most relevant changes, the replacement of Xfce with KDE Plasma, which is included by default in offline desktop installations. This modification responds to the intention of simplifying both development and maintenance, but for those users who do not want to work with KDE, in the online installation mode, the possibility of choosing any other user environment is offered. Additionally, for those who are familiar with the layout of Xfce but prefer KDE, there is the option to select a stylized layout theme that emulates the look and feel of Xfce.
Another change that stands out is removing options to install community editions (unofficial) as an installation option. The Sway, Qtile, BSPWM, Openbox and Worm editions are no longer available through the Calamares installer, as it is mentioned that most of the original developers abandoned the project and there is no one to continue them to make them work with each update of Squids.
In EndeavorOS 23.11 “Galileo”, when LUKS encryption is chosen with systemd-boot, the system will be installed with a LUKS2 encryption more powerful using argon2id.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- Welcome provides support for KDE and adds a language selection interface.
- The ability to install more than one DE during installation has been removed to avoid conflicts between packages. From now on, only one DE/WM option can be installed within the Calamares installer to avoid issues related to conflicting packages after installation.
- By default, new installations enable local system hostname detection to simplify printing to a network printer.
- No more unused LUKS keyfiles with systemd-boot: Installation no longer creates an unused LUKS keyfile when systemd-boot is selected.
- The Calamares package selection screen has been restructured to be clearer and make some elements more recognizable.
- Changed access rights to the EFI partition to eliminate issues during dual boot with Windows.
- fstab no longer populates with strange default values in options.
- SElinux warnings are removed, during installation, SELinux warnings are removed to avoid confusion.
- Dracut related packages are added to Holdpkg, so now all Dracut related packages are added to Holdpkg to prevent them from being inadvertently removed.
- Support for option –Threads en simple-reflector.
Added options –delay and –threads en reflector-bash-completion. - Previously, TTY selected an unusual German keyboard layout that created several problems, especially with encryption phrases. The default keyboard layout used is de-latin1.
finally if you are interested in knowing more about it, you can check the details in the following link
Download and get EndeavorOS 23.11 “Galileo”
For those who are interested in being able to try this new version of EndeavorOS, please note that the size of the installation image is 2.4 GB (x86_64, while the ARM build is developed separately).
You can download the system image from this link.