Okay, for that much money you can ask for a bit more. It should also be able to shut down.
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Thank you everyone for your comments, I appreciate it.
If anyone is interested in taking over EndeavourOS ARM, I am willing to help with start up.
It was a good run and I enjoyed working with ARM devices.
Pudge
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I just watched one on eBay not sell for $125
I almost bought it. But seriously, what the hell am I going to do with it?
Thank you @Pudge and @sradjoker for all the hardwork we were able to enjoy for those few years! Made us commit to EOS and has been my Linux OS since it started!
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This is unfortunate news; perhaps naĆÆvely, I was hoping that EndeavourOS ARM would one day include support for the Rockchip 3588 CPU, so I could install it on my Orange Pi 5 Plus (which performs very well for its price range).
Also, on the topic of budget budget laptops, a relative recently bought a Lenovo IdeaPad 1 14IGL7 for $129 USD when it was on sale, I installed Linux on it without ever setting up Windows (via diskpart) so it never ācalls homeā to Micro$oft, and it works great for them. (It even survived the KDE Plasma 6 upgrade, without any issues whatsoever.) Obviously, the use case here isnāt for any gaming, video editing, or streaming at higher than 1080p - itās mostly just for documents, office work, and paying bills online.
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Donāt you have a smartphone? 99% of smartphones worldwide are powered by ARM.
Today, a new ARM processor (Snapdragon X Elite) would already outperform x86 processors (Intel & AMD high-end-laptops) due to better performance per watt for battery life of any laptop in many use cases.
You will see that many people would slowly switch from X86 to ARM starting in 2026 when many useful software will be re-compiled and compatible with ARM architecture.
X86 mobile devices would probably end in the future.
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I mean as the sense of a computer ARM device and I think thats what the others meant too. I get what you mean but.
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Let me rephrase, Iāve not had a device that is not a phone with the ARM architecture, so where you can install Linux on such as a laptop or pc.
When that day comes, hopefully, the state of ARM on Linux will change with it. That is the main issue at the moment. Every ARM device needs a separate configuration of the Linux kernel and there is not a universal ARM config, unlike x86_64 devices. To develop and maintain those is a large ask, especially for a project the size of us.
Itās not that we are not willing to support ARM, the work to maintain it is way above our heads.
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Yup and one of the big issues trying to make custom roms to work on phones, need specified files for each device which is why my 2 smartphones are linked to google and I still have a gmail account.
I hope that day will instead be the RISC-V day, because itās the only open-source CPU architecture that doesnāt infected with Micros$oft Pluton yet.
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If someone outside 
will design and produce such devices.
If we look at the single boards for ARM it looks more like they are simply not designed to work nicely as a Desktop nor get good support from linux kernel.
Thatās what we look at in the very moment.
If you look at Armbian they do support a good range of devices:
Strong Partners in the back:
A lot of contributors:
Compare:
To keep up a complex time-consuming project like that, it needs people in to contribute help on maintainment fix issues e.t.c.
To be added, the same counts for the main tribe of x86_64 help floating in from the community, although there is still a certain level of expectation that the developers keep delivering. We do this with all the love and strength and the time available to us. But we need contributions to the code side of things and indeed feedback, reporting issues e.t.c.
The reason to end the work on ARM support, is not about giving up, it is about focussing on what we love to do. Same as before with the Community Editions, it was a project to be tested if you, the community would join, love it and let it grow, if it does not work out, it will be something we can grow in the service of all of us! 
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If the reason for supporting LXDE as an install option was for the ARM edition, then will LXDE be dropped soon too (because LXQt is the successor to the basically moribund LXDE because all of the original developers went over to LXQt)?
LXDE was not added to benefit for ARM.
Both Desktops are still maintained side by sideā¦ also LXDE is simply not getting new features (feature complete) and LXQT is still under active changes.
There is currently no plan to remove LXDE from the listā¦ it is still one of the most lightweight and full-featured Desktop Environments perfect suits older hardware we do still support too with the inclusion of legacy Bios boot options.
First of all, thank you for giving us this project.
I just made time last week to reinstall EOS on my Raspberry PI4.
I guess the repos from archlinuxarm will continue to be updated: so I hope my installation will be alive and updated for a long time.
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There are many Chromebooks available on Ebay for <50 USD. You can remove ChromeOS and install a regular UEFI Firmware https://mrchromebox.tech/, and install any GNU/Linux distro. Ensure that you buy a recent enough (<3 years old) second hand Chromebook. They have excellent battery life.
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Been using the ARM version on my Pi 5, itās been a joy to use. This is sad news for me, but I want to thank @Pudge and @sradjoker for their time and effort on the project. 
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cool you used this ?
What does this mean? Iām kind of tempted to get a raspberry or an orange pi 5. Are there performance issues with gnome and plasma?
Yes, I have been using a second hand HP x360 14a for a year, with Arch Linux (before the Plasma 5->6 transition), and now with Kubuntu 24.04 (which has Plasma 5).
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