That being said, Endeavour OS has a awesome and friendly community. So I still use EOS
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i use Endeavour OS myself
because the friendly community
but if you wont pure arch easy i think calam-arch-installer is the best out there.
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calam-arch-installer seems to just be stolen code from enOS, the package selection screen is the same. you can do an arch install with the enOS Calamares installer too, and itās much quicker.
For me, the defining point of enOS has never been the operating system itself, because I think there are plenty of operating systems that are on par. Itās the awesome community.
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The idea of Endeavour OS is mostly the community. But, without the amount of work gone into creating the Endeavour scripts, which allows you to install many DE/WMs, or without one, the community wonāt be here. (I am not a coder, but I can read the code and understand the thoughts behind it.) It is nice to come here few times a day. 
Considering the Arch installers, the forked Abif is still good. Only, it will install one iso at a time, that is, what the developer has added as airootfs.sfs. Endeavour OS script(s) is a multi-installer, which has its pluses and minuses ā developer hasnāt tested the other DEs/Wms, and it is up to you ā main idea at Endeavour. So, Abif can be made useful for creating many distros, same as Calamares (Garuda, Arco etc). But, Abif makes you stop and concentrate on what you are deciding to do, the old-fashioned way.
Calam-Arch is surely inspired by Endeavour. Interesting that the developer had made the airootfs.sfs a binary, so no one would look in before installing. Anyone inquisitive person can look in anyway in live mode. Most probably, we are in for few new ācalamsā in the near future.
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My apologies @ricklinux. I took your post as something different then you intended.
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That looks interesting I guess. I really still prefer the archfi install script for Arch to be honest still. But that full installer just seems like you could end up wit ha bunch of stuff you may not want/need. IMO thatās kind of the opposite reason to use Arch. Iād rather just do the EOS install at that point honestly.
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the best way to get arch linux install
with the packages you want
install arch from scratch
it is not difficult if you bother to read a little on it
but iām too lazy so i use endeavor OS 
No worries. I thought i would just explain my thoughts. Everyone has their own and I believe in what EndeavourOS started out to do and it has gone beyond that in a positive way. Arch is Arch no matter how you cut it and it shouldnāt matter how you get there. I just think EndeavourOS is the way that helps people achieve that easily in a friendly, community environment that helps people achieve success in their Endeavour!
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Looks like it is about creating a yaml file and pointing it to netinstall.yaml in Calamares netinstall.conf.
Itās what Endaevour does as well. Hereās a link to a forum post: Looks like EndeavourOS is being copied :)
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The ascii-art retro look of the new arch installer inspired feelings of nostalgia. It reminds me of my Commodore-64 days back in the 80ās. Honestly, when I saw the first YouTube video about the arch installer I thought it was an April 1 prank.
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The best part about this, is thereās going to be a bunch of folks who use it, install āArchā have a problem and then go post on the Arch Forum saying āI installed Arch and Iām having _________ issue.ā And they are going to laugh them off the face of the internet. because they didnāt install Arch. . . They checked boxes in Calarmares. Then they will come here and weāll explain they didnāt install Endeavour so we canāt help them either, and then they will get frustrated and end up installing EOS and then things will work and have community help.
The world is just and right and everything comes full circle. My optimism is in high gear today.
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The Arch community really isnāt that bad. Yes, EndeavorOS is more friendly, but the Arch community will help if one posts on the forum. It could be worse, it could be like the Microsoft forum where the answer doesnāt even address the question.
I donāt understand why the Arch community gets such a bad reputation. In my experience it is the Ubuntu community that is unhelpful, rude, and censor opinions.
The Syncthing community is also top-notch.
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I actually have no idea to be honest. Iāve never ever had interactions there. I just go by what Iāve heard. Itās probably highly exaggerated like all things on the internet, but itās comical to me at this point.
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answers.microsoft.com : āAbandon all hope, ye who enter hereā¦ā
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All you have to do is read al lot of the posts on their forum and youāll know.
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You mean the ones that go:
obvious noob: I read the Arch wiki on how to do this (link to wiki page), but I donāt actually understand it, can someone explain it to me in simpler terms?
arch snob: RTFM
arch mod: answer given, locking thread.
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The problem with Microsoft is everything is a generic answer for every problem and the fixes usually never work. Most errors even though itās a different code has the same fix which donāt work most of the time.
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Arch earns its reputation - just not always. Even if you follow the suggestions, show your attempts to fix yourself, provide machine and system specs etc - you can still get attacked! In my case they decided it wasnāt an Arch install (it was), because I had yaourt on it to help with the AUR (I was pretty new at the time) and I got it as .pkg file from an acquaintance!
Eventually I got an a sort of acknowledgement that the reaction was OTT - but still got no helpā¦
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Because Arch doesnāt have a turkey on their forumsā¦
Gobble gobble
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