- SystemD, because everyone using it more guides and more stability.
- EnOS prefers Dracut, again because everyone using it so I’d like to go with the crowd. Less chance of breaking my system. Arch specific mkinitcpio is also nice but definitely Arch has less users than all other distros combined.
- I’m not a purist to use GNU recommended distros. Even if GNU doesn’t recommend Arch or Debian/Mint even Android I do have to use them. Proprietary stuffs are okay when we don’t have usable alternatives. The fact EnOS serves proprietary drivers by default is nice for me.
- Same reason as above not a fan of Libre-Linux kernel. It’s nice some devs are going in that direction but not my choice for now.
- Based on Arch, which is community based.
- Minimal changes in EnOS. I really don’t like distros that tinker with every single thing like CachyOS or Garuda. Archcraft like minimal WM are also not for me. If I want it I’ll install WM manually.
- KDE: because it’s the best. Why we don’t see many forks just like GNOME? Because they do listen to community.
Start your Endeavour with a lightweight Arch-based, terminal centric system ready to personalise and a stellar community at your side
- EnOS community is great, it’s in the tagline of the OS itself.
- FirewallD by default is nice addition…better than GuFW.
- AUR : Depends on how much you trust (I don’t review package-build before installing). But I like having the option enabled by default so I can grab when something is not available on official repo. At the same time I don’t prefer to have other repos like Chaotic-AUR added/enabled by default.
All these factors. You may have contradictory view to my preferences and that’s fine.
Around ~3years as I see my 1st post in this forum.
Other things to consider
- Immutable distros: Nah not for me, it adds additional complexities. I’ll try out blendOS in VM
- SELinux/AppArmor: I can manually install AppArmor but it would have been nice to provide AppArmor by default. I guess that’s one of the reason why Debian/Ubuntu (AppArmor enabled by default) based distros are more safe than Arch. Server choice of RedHat (SELinux enabled by default) and other enterprise distributions. Still figuring out how SELinux/AppArmor works.