Guess I should apologize for the repeated misspelling of the name. I now have it right: EndeavourOS. Chalk it up to being a newbie from America where the ‘u’ is missing from the word. 
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Wourd. That is it then!
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I came across EndeavorOS for different reasons. I use Gentoo as my primary and Arch for everything else. BUT… I have a lot of friends in the amateur radio community that are tired of Winders who also do not want to spend the $$$ for a Mac. They know I use Linux for everything and they asked my opinion.
As I use Arch (with NVC) in my shack, I decided to look at Arch based distros. I tested close to a dozen different Arch derivatives, Manjaro, Garuda, Arco, Atrix and BlackArch to name a few. In my opinion EndeavorOS came out on top hands down for these new Linux users.
The community here took the top spot. This community is fantastic and there are few like it, especially in the Arch community. Some of the folks I sent here have found answers to the questions they had already.
I also like the ease of installation for a newcomer. Even installing Arch with the archinstall command can be overwhelming to someone new. There are so many other things I liked about this distro to list for the new users to list.
Bottom line is, even though I do not use EndeavorOS I strongly recommend it to those looking to switch to Linux.
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A long, long time ago: SUSE
First Linux on new hardware: Ubuntu
Tried: Fedora
Then: Arch, Antergos, Arch
New hardware: Windows
Before I went crazy: EndeavorOS
Normally Arch is fine, but the setup…
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This 
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…and this …
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…and also these:
- flexibility
- sovereignty (no Canonical etc for me thanks)
- community (restating because of importance)
- …it…just… feels like home
I’ve used & supported a few OSs (Basic, AmigaOS, M$ {DOS, XP/NT, 7, Vista 
, SBS , WS2000/2008/2012/2016}, Debian , Fedora , Ubuntu ) - this is hands-down the best OS & community for me.
Although 
, I do sometimes kinda miss high-speed tape dubbing + sneakernet…
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Same here. Feeling home is the best and the simplest way to explain why I am exclusively with EOS since 2020. I switched to Linux in 2014, first with Ubuntu (as a lot of us), then Manjaro in 2017, and finally EOS. It’s now 5 years in a row with 3 machines (at the beginning Ext4 and Grub, now BTRFS and System-boot), and I have no intentions to leave HOME. 
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I settled on Endeavour because I think it’s the perfect mix between a distro like Mint and installing Arch from scratch.
I wanted something I had full control over, but not something I’d have to set up every single little thing myself. A base system that just works out of the box, easy install, and everything after is up to me.
Some things can be changed/tweaked/fixed through system settings or just right clicking the taskbar and changing things through a UI. And other things need to be done through config files and reading through the wiki, or a forum, or multiple forums haha.
It’s the perfect mix for someone who enjoys tweaking things but also doesn’t have the time to spend hours researching why their taskbar isn’t displaying what apps are open, ya know?
Endeavour’s awesome.
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@kickstand Coming from LinuxMint to EndeavourOS, you nailed exactly what I feel about it. It just feels like the perfect approach combining cmdline and GUI; the best of both worlds.
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Recently I switched back to Endeavour after an update broke my vanilla Arch install. Not because it would be easier to fix on Endeavour, but the setup is a lot more streamlined. I’ve spent enough time manually configuring things and consulting the Arch wiki 
That gave me a new appreciation for the Endeavour apps, especially for NVIDIA drivers
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I’ve been using Linux full-time for about a year now. I use Debian for server stuff, but I want something more cutting/bleeding edge as my main OS. That led me to Arch and its respective distros. EndeavourOS came up because people online mentioned the great community and it has been the only Arch/Arch-based distro that I’ve used long-term. It just feels so stable, fast, and up-to-date.
I recently did a vanilla Arch install for the first time just to check it out… Took me quite a few tries to actually get it to work. When it finally did, I was like, “Neat, I did it. Time to install EndeavourOS.” It really made me appreciate the polished install/maintenance process of EOS.
I’ve had little interaction with this community so far, but from what I’ve experienced, it’s been a very supportive and positive experience, which has been the icing on the cake of a great distro. 
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I’ve had a crush on Arch since the first time using it, but I hate the elitist, cold behavior in the Arch forums. In the past I stumbled upon Antergos while browsing distrowatch and was pretty satisfied with this distro until it was discontinued. Then I lost sight of it and returned to pure Arch. At some point I read something about a successor of Antergos, which was/is named “EndeavourOS”, I tried it and now I’m here to stay.
Plus I like the fact, that there is no company behind the scenes, unlike on many other distros.
I’ll never get rid of my distro hopping habit, but always return to EOS or have it running at least on one of my machines.
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This community here is outstanding. To be honest, I periodically played with Arch and Arch-based distros, but never got far enough to actually keep it and make it one of my daily drivers.
This changed when I found how easy EOS was to install, so I risked it for daily use on one of my laptops. Apart from the ease of installation, I know I’d given up again after a few days, were it not for this community, the welcoming helpfulness, knowledgeable support, and lots of fun together!
So for me the reason why I stick with EOS and install it on a few more machines is about 50:50. 50% because it’s close to Arch but much easier to use, and 50% because of the people in this community.
This community here is the strongest argument in favour of EndeavourOS.
And of course the correct spelling (I’m a half-Brit: We drink tea and spell colour, favour and Endeavour the right way!)… 
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- 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.
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Things I relate EnOS with Linux Mint:
What makes linux mint so popular and choice for many is
- Balanced approach: Don’t go with purists (all libre) or other the end (mostly proprietary stuffs)
- Targeted for new to linux users or beginner level
- General use specific OS. Not for specific use-case like gaming, education, ethical hacking, security etc… Or patched kernel for specific use case.
- Purely functional DE by default that just works
- Sane amount of installed apps by default
- Great community support
It’s not surprising why many users mentioned Mint in this thread. Just search the keyword Mint here.
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Though it won’t work for me for work related items, I do plan on building a system and putting EndeavourOS on it after trying it myself recently. But I am not the average user and my needs are specific. I do like that it is fairly simple to install and tries to be intuitive to the user’s needs when performing the installation. It also has a very nice image as the background (some distros just do not put any effort into looking nice, which is a shame).
I look forward to seeing the next release and the changes it brings…
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Can you elaborate?
I enjoy the normal stuff like browsing the internet, gaming and photo/video editing like most - but I am also going into Cybersecurity. I need not only the basic items but also other tools that are available to specific Linux distros and even in some cases only to windows. I have been trying to convert over, but only 1 distro with tools that I need works on my PC - it is pretty new parts, so most distros either do not run at all (including live usb versions of those distros) or they load but then cannot update correctly and crash or they won’t boot at all. I had hoped that EndeavourOS would work - it should be possible to add the blackarch tools to it with very few adjustments, but EndeavourOS did not play well with my hardware either.
Kali, Manjaro, Mint, Blackarch, Arch, Fedora, Parrot OS… I have tried those and others, only 1 has worked enough to run stably and install at least several of the tools I need. It has been a long and rough journey, but EndeavourOS will likely be my choice for the youngest kid’s PC when I finally build it (assuming that EndeavourOS is still around - it will be a few years and there have been many distros that have come and gone, so I understand it is not guarenteed).