That's amazing! Why shit on Pop!_OS though? I've always liked it. I think it's definitely more stable than Arch in the long term
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yeah; I also use Pop!_OS and like it. I'm curious about the reasoning here
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I've always sworn by Arch builds. Built one up from scratch back in college ten years ago, and this past winter I decided I wanted to try a linux box again. After a bit of distro hopping I settled on CachyOS, but Endeavor caught my eye too.
Shit breaks, but fixing it is a learning experience. Small price to pay in exchange for the customization it offers.
Shit breaks but when it does there is a well documented wiki to help you fix it rather than multitude of vaguely related ubuntu forum posts
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I test-ran EndeavourOS for a future PC and like it. I am a Steam gamer though, so my work's cut out for me in getting it to work on whatever hardware I choose.
Steam works absolutely perfectly on EndeavourOS. No tweaking or anything required, just install and run. It also runs just about any game I ever tried, with troubleshooting as easy as choosing a different version of Proton from the dropdown.
Can confirm EOS works beautifully with Steam and has done for all the years I've used it.
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EndeavourOS club! Gorgeous blend between granular control and reasonably configured initial guardrails for a willing-to-learn new Arch user.
I played around with other distros too, before settling into this one. Haven’t looked back after 2-3 years of use so far.
helpful if you want to install arch without endeavor ☞ Archfi and Archdi - Two bash scripts for Arch Linux Installation by OldTechBloke
somebody on lemmy regularly posted videos of OldTechBloke while they're archiving the channel on peertube.
Interesting. I made the equivalent of this for installing Arch on raspberry pi 5. Maybe I should make them public.
Why use this instead of just archinstall? I've been using Arch for many years but I have used archinstall for at least the last few years and it always goes smoothly.
DistroTube has a similar project going as well, DTOS. I'm not sure if it's actually up and available but it looks promising for a similar target audience. https://youtu.be/FA__ScVhGQA
Welcome to your GNU/Linux jounery.
Before you distro hop again, take your time exploring the os and terminal it will make installing the real arch linux easier.
I agree, but I must say that with the Archinstall script it's a breeze nowadays.
EndeavourOS is the real Arch, with some additional repos and some sensible defaults.
Try saying that on the Arch forums and see what they think about that statement.
I don't think many people on the Arch forums have that outlook on EndeavourOS. It is Arch with benefits
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No hoping needed anymore once you landed on a Arch base!