Hello fellow Endeavour OS users! I am trying to learn my way around this new Arch based environment and am running into issues with installing software.
I am a long time debian user and usually use brave-browser. I used to just apt-get install brave-browser and it was done.
You should have yay, an AUR helper, installed with EndOS to install brave with.
Don’t have to build it either, you can just install the brave binary package brave-bin.
yay -S brave-bin
No need to build a browser if you don’t have to.
You can also use yay to search the AUR.
$ yay brave
9 aur/suave 2.0-1 (+0 0.00)
Sport Utility Assault Vehicle Extreme. Drive very small, but very brave tank.
8 aur/trisquel-icon-theme 7.0_4-1 (+3 0.00) (Out-of-date: 2018-04-29)
Trisquel GNU/Linux icon theme, based on Gnome Brave icon theme
7 aur/brave-dev-bin 1.24.72-1 (+9 0.00)
Web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default (dev binary release).
6 aur/brave-nightly-bin 1.25.37-1 (+16 1.01)
Web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default (nightly binary release).
5 aur/brave-beta-bin 1.24.74-1 (+22 1.03)
Web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default (beta binary release).
4 aur/brave-git 1.25.33.g0126e4e-1 (+23 0.00)
A web browser that stops ads and trackers by default. Master branch.
3 aur/brave 1.23.73-1 (+88 13.79)
A web browser that stops ads and trackers by default
2 aur/brave-bin 1:1.23.73-1 (+377 27.23)
Web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default (binary release).
1 community/python-adblock 0.4.4-1 (1.1 MiB 7.1 MiB)
Brave's adblock library in Python
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
It isn’t better or worse. The package brave is built from source. It is large because you are downloading the entire source code. brave-bin is a binary that has been built for you so you are only downloading the binary.
Some people prefer to build the browser themselves, others prefer the convenience of a pre-built binary.
Just adding to what dalto says, building browser takes lot of time. As a newbie, I remember putting Waterfox to build on my old Core Duo + 4gb ram PC . Learnt my lesson. Never built a browser again.
Because, typically, people do not like to wait 10+ hours to compile a web browser every time it gets a new update. But if you have a 24 core CPU, it may only take an hour or two.