I tried both Manjaro and Endeavour early in my distro hoping days. Endeavor, like others have said, is basically Arch with a good installer and some good defaults, but it is still Arch, which requires you to pay more attention and get more involved in your OS.
Manjaro was kind of an “easier Arch” for me until they pushed an update and black-screened every one of my computers. Twice.
After that, I was done, which is a shame because I rather liked it.
I’m gonna have to go with the one on the left, even though the black level has been lifted a bit. I am looking more at the toolbar across the top and its functionality, which looks easier to use to me.
Doesn’t matter how sleek and shiny something looks if I don’t know how to use it.
That took me a long time to finally see. There is a character squatting over the Christmas tree, but they are so tall that it’s hard to make out. All you see are their lower torso and butt.
Have to agree with the other replies: this could be any number of things. I’d start with the basics by making sure it’s not a hardware issue, then looking at software. Vostro is Dell’s budget business line, and my experiences with Vostro have been lackluster at best.
That’s not to say it’s purely a hardware issue. I’m a hardware guy so I tend to look at hardware first. Any number of software issues could also be causing your issue, including drivers, driver configuration, data corruption on your storage device, a setting or config from your distro or upstream provider, or even some random utility you installed.
Does it crash under other operating systems? Does it crash only after sitting idle for a certain time? Are you able to open another TTY and use the system from a prompt even though your screen is black?
Do yourself a favor and skip the USB drive - they are ridiculously slow compared to a compact external SSD. I found a cheap m.2 enclosure on Amazon and put an old SSD in it and the speed difference is breathtaking.
My SSD has a bunch of Linux distros grouped into folders along with Windows 10 & 11, every macOS from 10.13 to present, along with Rescuezilla, Hiren’s and a few others I can’t remember at the moment.
Rescuezilla was my #1 go-to during my days of distro hopping. Makes it super easy to try out a distro on bare metal instead of a VM.
Israel can fuck right off. Clearly, “never again” doesn’t mean fuck all to the Israeli government who are doing the same shit the Nazis did, only with bombs instead of gas chambers.
Fuck Israel. The US should have stopped giving them money decades ago.
This is very close to how I visualized my depression. Good stuff.