GXDE OS... It's a Chinese Linux distribution based on the latest stable releases of Debian, preserving and maintaining our beloved DDE 15 under the name GXDE (Gorgeous eXtended Deepin Environment) just like what MATE does with GNOME 2.
This distribution is rather tricky to get up and going on some hardware due to its obscure nature, but worry not! I'm here to help you through what you need to do to get this working properly!
The live environment won't boot with default options. You need to add nomodeset to the end of the kernel cmdline in GRUB to boot it up.
You'll boot into a very low resolution. You'll need to unmaximize Calamares, widen it and work your way through the installer that way.
After that's done, reboot but you'll still need to boot with nomodeset. We're not done.
So you're in the TTY now. Log in per usual, connect to the network using nmtui, upgrade the system and install nvidia-driver and firmware-intel-graphics.
The first is just enough to get you to a graphical environment, and the second is required to have proper iGPU support. Otherwise, your fans will ramp up every time you load into the GUI.
Remember to reboot afterwards.
The WMI driver is required for proper fan curves and power profiles support.
Get it here: https://github.com/thekayrasari/excalibur
After getting the source code, run install.sh. Don't choose to install the control panel because it's made for a version of Textual newer than what Debian has. Follow this issue to stay up to date on the matter: thekayrasari/excalibur#16
And once that's done, reboot one last time and you're all set to go!
