Try some BSD.
Well I’m sorry if I upset you when I said that endeavouros was not a distro. I compare my Intel NUC5 with Endeavouros installed and my Asrock Deskmini with vanilla Arch installed and I can’t see much difference except for systemd-boot (my choice) vs grub2 and I think one or two small apps. Obviously there might be some small differences under the hood that I don’t see. For example if you compare Arcolinux with plain Arch, there are obvious differences in the way that Arcolinux sets things up. All the same, they are still Arch.
Anyway, I don’t like Arcolinux and I especially don’t like the videos with that rather tedious voice rambling on. I also think that the Arcolinux website is one huge mess. Endeavouros is streets ahead. Please keep up the good work.
My one gripe about Arch Linux (probably any linux distro) is getting my printer (any printer?) to work. I get mine working only to find something upsets it and it sulks until I play around with cups and things. My latest hitch was using ufw firewall. I couldn’t get the system to see the printer on the network until I disabled the firewall. I doubt that the firewall is needed anyway. OK - rant over!
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I’m not upset, I only explained so the Arch community won’t have a fit if I confirmed your opinion. I’ve seen some unpleasant comments made by some Arch users on the Antergos forum in the past, concerning this sensitive subject. 
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May I ask what printer you have? I haven’t had any issues getting mine working. Cups is installed and I just install the printer and it works. The printer drivers are in the AUR for both my printers and just seem to work.
Printer are always fun, it seems. The only thing that keeps an Ubuntu LTS version around is that my printer installs and works without a problem 
As for controlling distro-hopping urges, the only thing I have found that helps is a multi-boot setup - I have 5 distros concurrently on here:
Arch
Xubuntu
Arcolinux
MX-19
EndeavourOS
and whenever I find I don’t spend any time in one, it becomes the next replacement victim. I’ve been through a lot of different setups, but I seem to be homing in on XFCE on everything, and Arch under everything too. Just works better, and it keeps me watching what’s going on with it 
On the other hand I tend to install Ubuntu LTS for others, so that I don’t have to do any significant support (they look after themselves much better than Windows ever did).
Now, if only I could remember what I did to get the printer/scanner going on my Arch setup, so I can replicate it here on EndaeavourOS. I’ve really got to start writing notes to myself when I solve these things…
Freebird54
In my experience, it’s easier to get things working if you acquire hardware that is known to work with Linux. I have had decent luck with Brother devices over the years. I have an MFC-J870DW right now. Printing worked over the network, but scanning didn’t, so I just plug it in to my PC via USB. Works fine with drivers found on AUR.
My enos got so luxury on overkill root disk en deporate ssd he got it sweet 
Started the Void Xfce iso. Truly minimal, has virtually no programs installed except what comes with basic Xfce (so say Ristretto is installed but not catfish) but on the other hand it boots up at 266 MB…
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I bought it in a brick an mortar book shop no need to buy online. Also I don’t live in the states, this book is everywhere. It helped me and all my friends that decided to read it to the end. I was a heavy smoker for about 10 years. It’s 10 years since I quit. Some of my friends stopped reading it, realizing they’d end up quitting smoking if they finish it:)
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I have a Canon TS6150. Luckily, there are two drivers available for it in the AUR. Using cups etc. and then installing the two drivers, my printer works. The scanning always works first time but the printing is erratic. It won’t print after the initial cups start/enable and requires a restart. Then it often fails to print for no apparent reason and requires either a restart or (oddly) I have to run a scan and then the printer miraculously comes to life. I would say that it’s manageable but annoying.
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I looked it up on Brother’s web site, and your printer uses brscan4 as the scanner driver.
To get the scanner to work over the network:
1 Use yay to install brscan4 from the AUR
2 # brsaneconfig4 -a name=“Brother” model=“MFC-J870DW” ip=“yourPrinter’sIPaddress”
3 If you have a firewall, you have to open incoming port 1900 UDP for the printer’s IP address, or disable firewall to test.
Use simple scan.
HTH
Pudge
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Thanks, @Pudge. I have brscan4 installed, but I haven’t tried making the networking part work in a while. Admittedly, the last time I did try, I was probably using Manjaro, so to be fair to EndeavorOS, I should try again. 
Well I have needed to sort out my partitions for quite some time and in the process realized that my / is 40Gb.
So, backed up everything on /home, deleted and reformatted a number of partitions and will set it up with a triple boot: EndeavourOS, Void and W10.
I think it is a great idea to have more than one native Linux installs on a machine.
And with EndeavourOS (or any Arch based actually) it is interesting to have basically two installs: one with stable repos and another with testing repos. Why? The testing repo version will help in determining if there will be issues for the stable repo version. And to be honest, the testing side is amazingly stable already! So I normally use the testing side, and if there are any serious update issues, I can temporarily use the stable side until the testing side is fixed by Arch devs.
The bonus with the testing side is you’ll get the latest kernels almost right after the new kernel is released at kernel.org (of course, Arch devs must compile it first).
Another nice thing to have is use the EndeavourOS ISO as a “recovery tool”. You can simply store the ISO somewhere on your SSD or HDD, and with a proper grub menu entry you can boot your machine directly using the stored ISO! No need for a USB stick nor DVD.
And this ISO can even be used for installing EndeavourOS, provided you have at least two drives in your machine.
Sorry about a longish post. But hopefully the contents prove to be useful for someone…
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I definitely agree about having more than 1 install on a machine (I have 5) although I don’t think I have the nerve to run the testing repos! Rolling is pretty new to me as it is! It certainly is a big change from feeding a stack of floppies in to generate an update for TAMU (Texas A&M Unix) back in the day…
I was Ubuntu’ing (and others) for years until deciding I knew enough to try Arch (and with some urging from others who have) but I was held up by the attitudes I saw on the Arch Forums. It sure would have been easier with a forum like this, even without the installer!
I like the idea of the ISO for recovery being on the system, but I don’t think I’ll go into grub to make it happen - I’ll stick with rEFInd and a USB stick, thanks… 
Keep smiling
Freebird54
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At the end we need al a great community and im sure we are also a great community… it depends mostly on openes of a user things get fixed or not… is first about identifying and setup a treath on the forum and the rest will pass with some patience to sunny island where you can relax again…
mmmm
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