Sad but it’s the reality of small Distros thy can’t run forever(unless someone takes over, and continue on the same path).
I just hope in all nativity that EndeavourOS will live on forever! 
Yes so sad. I don’t see EndeavourOS going anywhere soon. 
Then we have to go back to Manjaro … 
No, then we have to go Arch.
Sad news, really. Erik is a genius and a most humble, cool and enlightening teacher.
TBH, I wasn’t familiar with ArcoLinux that much, knew of it’s existence but nothing more.
In short, maintaining 17 different isos for the purpose to install Arco Linux ? That’s quite much. Additionally optimizing installers (or just providing toolchains and/or support) for different Arch-based distros, while being active on all social media channels as well as the production of educational video content for youtube… with currently close to 5000 videos being uploaded.
Sounds like a 24/7 job that is quite challenging to manage. And as it seems that it’s more or less a one-man project, I can totally relate to it that he is stepping back, as he is in his early 60s.
I’m afraid I’m not smart enough for that.
Give yourself more credit. Arch ain’t all that hard. 
My main concern is that after installation, there are so many additional things that I have no idea about.
I tried the installer on my test computer, but it failed.
I think I’d rather go with openSUSE TW.
arcolinux was it’s own man–owed nothing to nobody (except arch base). unique. Using it twice was a trip and a half. They were not recruiting noobs, they were tailored for advanced users. I was only a simpleton.
That’s not quite a eulogy, forgive me.
What happens to distros when the Lead has to walk away? People stay with it til the wheels fall off? Owner hands all the code to an interested maintainer? Nothing? It fades away?
I know the beginnings of all these stories (“Joe Flint, creator of distro XXX has stepped away citing family obligations etc”)…but I never hear the end of the stories. Just as well.
Just use EndeavourOS then? Anyone can install Arch the official way, it’s just typing out some instructions where you type out commands based on the configuration you want.
In short:
- Setup partitions
- Format partitions with a file-system
- Mount file-systems
- Install a base system with pacstrap: pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware
- Generate fstab: genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
- Enter your installation: arch-chroot /mnt
- Set hardware clock and timezone
- Configure vconsole if you are using another language than “us”.
- Configure localization
- Configure (/etc/mkinitcpio.conf) and generate initramfs: mkinitcpio -P
- Set root password
- Create your user, install/configure sudo and add your user to wheel
- Install and Configure bootloader
- Reboot
- Login and install the rest of your system: Desktop stuff, etc.
Good bye ArcoLinux and thank you Erik Dubois!
It would certainly help IF Arch came wrapped in Calamares with a few options (I’m really liking Systemd-boot and the Cinnamon desktop). But hopefully EndeavourOS will last at least until I die. I really like this distro.
There’s also Arch isos built with the calamares installer that don’t do as much handholding EOS does but comes close!
Also, Archinstall has come along way. Using it and Endeavour’s guides has me using base Arch without trouble 
I hope that too …
If you permit me a suggestion, I would say to start experimenting with installation and configuration of Archlinux in a Virtual Machine and train your skills.
You can then always go back to the mothership when/if all the other vessels have been engulfed by a blackhole or have gone astray in the vastness of the Linuxverse.
Thanks, I actually had planned to do that with my test computer (an old laptop). However, my first attempts a few years ago didn’t yield any results. It failed because, after the basic installation, I had to install too many things I had no idea about.
The base installation provides you with a “platform” on top of which you build up your own operating system.
Your point of reference should always be Archwiki. You can combine that with many tutorials and guides written for installation of Arch, always contrasting the information with the wiki.
Despite Youtube, being Youtube, you can find some good tutorials for installation of Arch and evolving it to a functioning desktop operating system according to your preferences.
And just to state the obvious, if for instance, EOS fell off the face of the internet today, you could edit the repositories and just update along with base Arch, no problem.
Don’t forget to take care of the orphans 