Of course, kernel development is the responsibility of Arch developers. Along with this, it can also be stated that the EndeavorOS developers adapt well and quickly to changes in the kernel. A newly released kernel version will appear soon enough among the package updates
This is because we use the arch repos for most of the packages. This mean that you directly get the arch packages for most your your stuff
This is what gives EndeavorOS the biggest advantage over other Arch-based distributions, without disparaging them.
Meh. 64GB of RAM is an overkill anyway unless you do a lot of super heavy computing or unless you run, like 20 VMs simultaneously.
In that case, using a rolling-release distro like Arch can help alleviate some of the bandwidth limitations of your wifi adapter. Updates are pushed out in smaller chunks.
Hi ya’ll. I myself tinkered with various distros, but didn’t get serious until a collegue mentioned Manjaro, fell toward KDE = Though I like what Steve Jobs did for the start of x10, that’s as far as I can take the Gnome experience.
I came upon EOS when one of the Manjaro developers (?) said his public goodbye’s within the Manjaro notification boards saying he’s moving to here for his own reasons. Soon after that a Manjaro update came out, I installed and it blew my Samba to bits. I rethought what why this Dev moved and found EOS snap like I hadn’t seen before - it was very intriguing.
One of the first things I look for is file sharing when I move to a new distro. I’ve found various help articles, but none of them have given me the ability to get SMB/Samba working with EOS. I would seemingly expect that the folder to be shared would have a Share tab, giving me indications that “hey, I’m gonna share this folder”. I have not been able to get this to work.
One thing I have to give to the Manjaro team is making Linux a bit easier to jump into from Windows or Mac - software packaging is there. They have on their wiki page the pamac install command that will get Samba working for you…steps are a 3, install samba, set your password, reboot. It works.
I’m putting this out there, with using a fresh build of EndeavourOS, is there any full featured steps anyone can give, or that someone might package to have install like what Manjaro and Team did??
I’d be making the move wholly over to EOS if I could get this to work. For now, it’s just a try a bunch of things, oops, looks like I don’t want to leave that and rebuild again, again, again.
Thanks
manjaro-settings-samba package will do some magic 
what is mainly a samba config file and the setup done here:
What the heck, I still have a Sandy Bridge in my computer … runs …
In October 2025, I switched from Manjaro to EndeavourOS. I didn’t quite get the hang of it right away, so I switched back to Manjaro. I was also a bit nervous about using the terminal. Now that the Manjaro team is facing some issues and its future is far from certain, I’ve decided to give Endeavour another chance. I’ve learned a lot in the meantime, and I’m really enjoying it. I read a lot on the forum here in the hope of keeping the system as stable as possible. I only use the LTS version and avoid AUR as much as possible.
IMNSHO Endeavour is the best option for moving to an Arch-based OS.
Or, in fact, from Windows, or any other Linux (XFCE is my choice for that)
I briefly used Manjaro and that was a nightmare compared to EOS
Forum has always been lovely and helpful too - that is soooo important.
My 81 year old mum with zero tech genes has been on it for over 5 years on my old 2010 PC with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300. Zero problems
