r/EndeavourOS • u/Able-Farm6295 • 13d ago

Discussion How did you guys discover EndeavourOS?

I first came across EndeavourOS when I was looking for a lightweight and fast Linux distro for my old laptop.

Someone suggested that I give EndeavourOS a try, so I decided to install it and see how it goes.

I honestly hadn’t heard much about it before that.

And honestly, I was pretty surprised by how fast and responsive it felt on my old laptop.

I didn’t really expect a distro like this to run so smoothly on older hardware.

It actually made me wonder why I hadn’t discovered EndeavourOS sooner.

Now I’m curious — how did you guys discover EndeavourOS in the first place?

Was it recommended by someone, or did you find it while browsing through different Linux distros?

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u/linuxeur 13d ago

For me, it was the spiritual successor to the Antergos project when Antergos ended. Since launch, it has been all I liked about Antergos, and more, with a fantastic community that gives members way more than Arch's RTFM. Connect with the EnOS community and WELCOME!

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u/RaielRPI 12d ago

Antergos refugee here as well 😊

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u/MeLikeChoco 13d ago

Wanted Arch without having to reinstall everything I wanted every time I installed Arch (I've already done the vanilla install from scratch once before and I don't want to do it again), but I also didn't want an "overhaul" option like CachyOS or Manjaro.

So, for now, I run EndeavourOS with CachyOS repos.

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u/red-skylight Tiling WM 13d ago

I had Fedora Silverblue on my laptop and Cachy on my wife's old laptop (MacBook Air 2014) that I was using more often than mine. I think I used Cachy for two weeks.

My laptop (MacBook Pro 2015) that had a swollen battery and got worse to the point that I got scared. I managed to remove the battery but damaged a cable in the process and the keyboard and pad stopped working.

Then I decided to swap the hard drives and install Cachy fresh. However I read a news about the Titan Nova release and decided to install EOS instead.

Last week ago I bought one ThinkPad E15 and installed Endeavour straight away.

And that's how I switched over to EOS.

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u/yourearandom 13d ago

Distrowatch. I’m old.

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u/Gtkall 13d ago

Archinstall was still very primitive when I was still distrohopping. I knew I wanted arch, but couldn't be bothered with the custom install, so I picked Endeavour OS

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u/D_Caribou 13d ago

I was exploring Manjaro, there was some issues with some update stuff and security exploits if I recall, then some YouTubers at that time were recommending Endeavour as an alternative. And I'm so glad I tried it because in more than 5-6 years, I've never had to look for another one. My best experience using Linux.

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u/darknetmatrix Endeavourinator 13d ago

I started with Cinnarch, switched to Antergos, and eventually ended up with EndeavorOS.

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u/sumguypookie 13d ago

I stumbled across Antergos while distro hopping and stayed when it became EndeavourOS.

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u/AccountyMcRedditface 13d ago

I discovered it through one of Diinki's ricing videos on YouTube (though I ended up just using KDE lol) 

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u/chibi-mage 13d ago

same for me!!

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u/CostalCaster KDE Plasma 13d ago

Wanted something lightweight but familiar to me as I had owned and used the Steam Deck in Desktop Mode - but wanted something that felt more like a computer. I looked up online and Endeavor checked every box I needed for it.

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u/SQLQuery4 13d ago

Colleague recommended it to me, I was never a fan of Mint given how outdated the interface is, so I gave it a shot and have used it everywhere since.

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u/Bruceplanet 13d ago

I was investigating Arch Linux, saw a cool wallpaper on one of the images and did some more digging bingo EndeavourOS. I really like it.

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u/ProgressFun303 13d ago

Wanted Arch but also wanted LUKS

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u/fistyeshyx9999 13d ago

some random dude on discord reccomended it when wanting to leave Windows behind

Never looked back

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u/Paxtian 13d ago

Probably DistroWatch. When I was starting to commit to Linux, I downloaded several different distros. I wanted to try a few based on Fedora, a few based on Arch, OpenSuse, and Fedora. I tried EOS, Manjaro, and raw Arch as the Arch-based distros. I ended up on EOS because it is pretty close to vanilla arch, but I really liked the theming. It gives a great KDE experience, which is my preferred DE.

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u/mr_pea 13d ago

reccomended by the one of the developers on the ALVR project..

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u/Merthod 13d ago

Desperation and having tested most of the "more popular" distros on distrowatch.

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u/CarryOnRTW 13d ago

I knew I wanted to try an Arch based distro and after some minimal research EndeavourOS rose to the top. Extremely happy with my decision.

This was just before the influencers started to push CachyOS. I still can't believe how much press it gets vs. how little EndeavourOS does. Hoping that EndeavourOS doesn't fade away...

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u/His_Turdness 13d ago

Migrated from Antergos. Found that by looking for a rolling release distro with a great community.

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u/jeroenim0 13d ago

It was whispered in my ear by a little angel some day, I was minding my own biz, but I listened.  Both my desktop and laptop are running (first install) Eos.  From that day on I never heard that angel again. That is now 4 years ago. 

Long story short.. it’s great!

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u/BUDA20 13d ago

after 2 years of Arch (installed manually), I decided to test "arch installers", I wanted a live desktop to try and fix things, browse etc., and good defaults, to be easy to recommend.

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u/spawncampinitiated 13d ago

Can't remember, but I'm glad I did

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u/renessancek 12d ago

Reddit 😅

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u/tonivade 12d ago

I was an arch linux user since 2004, and I was looking for a lightweight alternative, easy to install, easy to maintain, but keeping the same philosophy behind arch linux. I tried Manjaro but then I switched to Antergos but it was discontinued at 2019. Finally looking for an alternative, I found EndeavourOS, and now I'm a very happy user. I love it.

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u/Forsaken_Post5721 12d ago

Same here. First Manjaro then Antergos, after that Arch until i found EndeavourOS

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u/bountymeow 12d ago

Diinki 🤭

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u/MintyFresh314 KDE Plasma 12d ago

A random youtube video.

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u/Mediocre-Pumpkin6522 12d ago

I wanted to try Arch without the purist route to install it. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt about 25 years ago. I'm older and lazier now.

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u/OkSeaworthiness2727 12d ago

I was on manjaro and then they went "corporate". I copped a millennium ban for telling one of the new admins their fortune. Endeavour was a breath of fresh air and been with it ever since. Their forum is the nicest forum ever. I should visit it again

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u/FindorGrind67 9d ago

Same. Looking for something to keep my '09 MacBook running. Read about it online tested it in Distrosea and VM and I'm hooked. My family are more Mint-flavored, but Linux is Linux

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u/Full-Interaction2024 7d ago

I had an underpowered laptop that was struggling to handle Ubuntu. i decided to take a look at, frankly, a LOT of distros. made a list and all, noting key aspects especially RAM usage. learned of endeavourOS when focusing on Arch based distros, and turned it into a live disk. it worked!