How To Geek has ranked EndeavourOS at number 2 in their picks of the 10 most popular Linux distros.
See the article here:
Its not of the â10 Most Popular Linux Distrosâ .. its just a selection of â10 Popular Linux Distrosâ. A distinction they almost seemed to grasp in the opening section despite still using âmostâ a few times in the same vicinity.
And not so much a âHowToGeekâ ranking either but rather the personal rankings of one of their contributors Dibakar Ghosh.
The way they write also seems to indicate that a lot of this is new territory for them. Which is fine. But might not make for the best source of advice or judgement.
They did have nice things to say about Endeavour .. though apparently it almost entirely consists of how it is like manjaro and has a friendly forum.
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Admittedly, I did install CachyOS for a day or two. KDE of course, lol. It does run very well, but there was something and please, donât dismiss it because I know most of you know about not only how a distro operates, but how it feels. Does it make you feel safe? Does it make you feel like it knows what you want? Does it offer transparency or just simple cross-covering explainations? I felt somehow âoffâ using it. Great distro, just not for me.
Back to the point, I am back to running EndevourOS after a brief hiatus. Because it feels just right 
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I dontâ think they could have written something I disagreed with more. Manjaro made the list . . . Debian is 10. . . and Cachy? I think they got hammered and threw darts at a distrowatch print out and thatâs how they got this list.
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Personally I rank EOS as #1, which is why itâs my daily driver. 
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I used Pop! OS for over 3 years (2021-2024) and i loved it, i also love their Cosmic desktop but i didnât love the slow updates. The reason i switched to Endeavour OS is because i have read alot of good things about it back in the day when i started with Linux again back in 2021 BUT i was a bit scared of it duo to be a rolling release. But things are really simple for what i am using my notebook for.
When i compare Pop! OS with Endeavour OS i would say Pop! OS is harder to use, you always have to search for ppaâs if a driver like mesa does not get updated in months (kisak) or you need to add a ppa for nvidia (ubuntu repo) etc. If you system gets messed up the devs and most users says âa clean install is requiredâ while in arch you can chroot in and save your installation.
That was really⌠odd list.
I have had this hunch that we are living this age of âArch-boomâ, probably because people in YouTube have jumped into wagons of Arch. I can be wrong of course.
I used CachyOS a little while. While I was able to run it without any hassle, I question the fact that itâs fastest of the fast. I think this illusion comes only from boosted desktop effects and I did not see miraculous rises of FPS or something like that.
I have to also add that CachyOS is not in my opinion âmatureâ enough; I encountered some bugs that there should not be - For example if I chose CachyOSs own login screen, I got only black screen.
I also see reports the cachy os kernel is causing overheating issues with laptop users.
But we are only ranked fifth by Total Carp magazine!
who cares? Letâs have a poll of which is the best poll.
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What?! Weâre on 5th place on Total Carp?! That means weâre only FOUR places behind Dysentery OS, the most baddest of the bad boys of New Linux World; system that uses Turbo Pascal as source and never doesnât bug out, because it never boots!
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Well, thats a bunch of âCARPâ!
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my 2cents , iâve tried just about all the âmainstreamâ distros ,some for a few months some for a year some for a day . Most ,well all of âem debian/ubuntu based .
1st time i tried arch based i picked eos , and i just love it. I did try manjaro too but didnât like it .
IMO eos is the best 
(heard good things about cachy but never tried it , came close though lol)
I rank my own ⌠and when i want to use a real OS i use Endeavour!
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if distrowatch can rank mxlinux #1 for what feels like 10 years straight nowâŚthen you know all this stuff is nonsense.
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It would seem that people âchecking outâ distros versus those who already know what distro suits them and is âbelovedâ , that the only ones needing to click the links on the distro ratings are those who are still looking for a âbelovedâ distro. Based on that scoring, it doesnât make them better, it makes them âchecked-outâ.
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Iâve been reading DW for years and never saw a place to vote for anything if there ever was one which I donât think there is because you are telling me the minute I click to read comments, then that click that constitutes an upvote in the âpopular distrosâ tally?
If true, mind blown.
âChecked outâ a distro in no way, in my view of things, should = popular or âlooking for distro.â
Some of us just like to read. Itâs people like me that keep the numbers skewed then. I am doing something positive then
The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring interest in Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch was accessed each day, nothing more.
Source: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
Only one hit per IP address per day is counted.
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straight from the source, thank you.
since my âaccessâ is only for lesser known stuff and never the Big Boys then my numbers donât matterâand the fact I get no votes (âone hit per ip addressâ) for anywhere else I goâŚ
..then itâs pretty meaningless. [But MXLinux? Thatâs the first place a person checks out when they get to DW ? I need a drink.]
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Yeah, thatâs always seemedâŚsuspicious.
This is as good an excuse as any 
. I would say that I need one too, but Iâm already drinking, soâŚ
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I meant I needed another one 
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