Honestly, EndeavourOS is one of the smoothest and fastest Linux distros I’ve ever used.

I’m surprised I don’t see more people talking about it on YouTube.

Is there a reason it’s not as popular as other distros? Or am I just looking in the wrong places?

What do you guys think?

Only time will tell...

I just want to be aware of its features and the reasons behind your choices :)

thanks in advance and have a good day!

Hello,

I have recently learned some guy named Dylan is already trying to implant age verification in several components of linux, but specifically archinstall and systemd. I am wondering if the EndeavourOS devs are aware of what is going on?

Here is the link to archinstall: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/4290

and here is the link to systemd: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

I don't know who Dylan is, but he has been making a lot of first time contributions into these sorts of open source projects pushing this age verification bullshit. I will probably be switching init systems if this continues and if that isn't possible might have to switch distros entirely. I know a few distros have taken a stance against this, but I really don't want to switch again because I love Endeavour.

The best distribution with a convenient installation!

I’ve been using EndeavourOS recently and honestly, it feels really fast and snappy. I’m actually liking it so far.
I’m just wondering, is it safe and stable enough to use as a daily driver?

I mostly use my PC for browsing, watching YouTube, installing apps, and normal everyday stuff.

I know it’s Arch-based and rolling release, so I’m a bit worried about updates breaking things or causing problems.

For those who have been using EndeavourOS for a long time, how has your experience been?

Would you recommend it for daily use?

I've been on Endeavour for about a year or a year and a half now, and I want to revamp my experience. What software do you consider essential?

I have tried it out and its not even that hard to use, its really easy to use in my opinion, with Plasma KDE it looks way more windows like than Mint Cinnamon. It doesnt have any bloatware, it isnt hard to install like Arch, so i just dont get why it isnt recommended to beginners its like the perfect os. Like i saw people were saying its not for beginners before installing it, i was kind of scared but i really wanted to try it. After trying it people shouldnt scare beginners like me from using it, its really easy to use

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?

Why is EOS consider a distribution?
I know it sounds mean but let me explain. I used EOS only shortly but from what I can tell it offers: Arch + Calamares + a bit of special configuration. Which is very convenient and I am glad it exists. But I don’t understand why it is regarded its own OS. Lets look at Cachy: I don’t want to make comparisons but I see much more clearly why it is considet an OS on its own. Besides arch and calamares it also offers repositories containing a lot of drivers no longer present + a suit of its own software + its special kernel. But it feels like EOS has nothing that makes it this much different from Vanilla Arch.

What got me wondering about this in the first place is the treatment of Omarchy. The politics, money and the artificial hype around it is bad. No question asked. EOS is much better, also no question asked. But the fundamental arguments why Omarchy is not a real OS or independent distribution also apply to EOS right?

I tried tons of distros debian based, fedora, arch, with systemd, without systemd. Endavour OS beats all of them. An arch based distro without fish or a package wrapper and encourages you to use the terminal. I say it is the best one of all. I haven’t even had any issues with crashing because of it (a few due to framework 16 issues) but i give it 100/10 it runs the way you want it to without the garbage.

I'm on Manjaro and there's frequent issues with mirror responses being too slow and I can't update sometimes.

Do you guys think we might see budget laptop manufacturers shipping EndeavourOS pre-installed in the future?

Could EndeavourOS realistically compete with Windows if it came pre-installed on affordable hardware?

What do you think?

Finally switched to EndeavourOS with KDE as on my Main PC, after a month of distro hopping/testing. Only have 1 unresolved issue to work out on EndeavourOS KDE. Find a good working VPN, preferably with a GUI but I can live without one just fine.

Was using proton vpn on my previous machine and still use it on other machines. But can't get the GUI version to work via yay and can't get the cli one to work either... So looking for options, have express vpn currently working on it, but don't care for all the ads in it and my subscription with them will end soon. Looking for VPN recommendations.

So \what is everyone using for VPN on EndeavourOS with KDE using?

Hi guys,

In this post I want to congratulate with all the people in the team of EndeavourOS.

I run this OS in 2 machine, a Thinkpad laptop with AMD, And in a custom build with:

Intel Ultra 7 270K plus

64 gb Ram

Nvidia RTX 5090 32GB (founders edition)

And I haven't absolutely any problems with driver, hardware failure, compatibility, graphics, any kind of work, ecc.

I love It!

Thank-you again for making a diamond of OS!

Hey guys, I'm getting my first actual non work computer in a while and I wanna do gaming and just general use. Never used Linux before except years ago a little , I'm willing to learn the ropes and I'm good with following tutorials and online guides but I've heard some horror stories on the stability of the system, is it true it can break every new release? I don't wish to go through that and want minor hiccups at most I can troubleshoot and fix.

Is it okay for a newbie?

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I’m thinking about using EndeavourOS, but I have a question about updates.

Is it possible to install EndeavourOS and then never update the system at all?

I’m wondering if I can keep using the same installed packages and kernel indefinitely without performing system updates.

I understand there may be security risks and that some applications could eventually stop working, but I’m mainly curious whether the system itself can continue to run normally if I simply never update it.

Has anyone actually used EndeavourOS this way?

What would happen after several months or years without updates?

Thanks!

Idk if this fits as discussion but...

It’s been a full week since I switched from Windows 11 to this system. At first, I struggled a bit to fully get used to KDE Plasma, but I managed to figure it out over the course of the day. Then, to install apps, I had to really learn how Flatpak and the AUR worked, and I really like how they work. Now I use the system for my daily routine without much trouble, mainly used for online classes, gaming sessions, and video editing

The hardest part for me to get used to has been NVIDIA's poor "native" compatibility with Linux, but other than that (after going through dozens of wiki pages and videos)... Gaming experience has been incredible so far

That said, I'm not quite sure what to do with apps that work perfectly on Windows with .NET, like Livesplit for speedrunning- I haven't found any way to get it to work xD

I’ve tried quite a few Linux distributions on my Chromebook, but I’m honestly surprised by how smooth EndeavourOS with XFCE feels.

The Chromebook only has 4 GB of RAM and a 16 GB eMMC, so I wasn’t expecting much. I’ve tried other distros and desktop environments, but somehow EndeavourOS + XFCE feels noticeably smoother and more responsive.

What makes it feel this smooth?

Is it because of XFCE being lightweight, Arch’s relatively minimal base, the kernel, default services, or something else in the way EndeavourOS is configured?

I’m curious what is actually happening under the hood that makes EndeavourOS + XFCE perform so well on such limited hardware.

Would love to hear from people who understand the technical side of this.

i know its systemd, but this just the start of more things that will come, i thought our software would be free as in freedom, so adding the age stuff to the os just makes big politics understand that linux will conplain with any other major law that they make, what will be the next step, adding a backdoor to systemd? really?

Around 2 days ago I got tired of microtrash and decided to switch to linux! Ive installed mint before but never messed with the terminal, this screenshot was took when I was using kde plasma, which is a VERY smooth switch from the windows enviorment. I now use i3wm, I'm not really into "ricing" yet but I've configured some stuff. Nvidia drivers are a b#tch, which sucks, so I'll toy with that, I spent like a day to get everything working when I installed it. I'm not a Linux pro by any means, but I'm learning😁 Btw if you're asking why some stuff is blacked out it was 3am and I decided to do that for some reason. Everything runs so smooth and snappy, it's honestly scary how good Linux is. Drop your criticism of me down below, since I know that won't be avoidable:D

Hey guys 👋 I have an old Lenovo N23 Chromebook with 4GB RAM and 16GB eMMC, and I’ve been trying different Arch-based distros on it.

I tried EndeavourOS XFCE and CachyOS XFCE, and somehow EndeavourOS feels much smoother on this old Chromebook.

CachyOS XFCE doesn’t feel as smooth for me.
This kinda surprised me because both are Arch-based. 🤔

So I’m wondering, what makes EndeavourOS feel so smooth on old/low-end hardware?

Is it because of the kernel, XFCE settings, services, packages, CPU optimizations, drivers, or something else?

I thought CachyOS was supposed to be performance-focused, so I’m curious why EndeavourOS feels better on this particular hardware.

Is there some configuration or “secret sauce” in EndeavourOS that I’m missing? 😂

Would love to hear from anyone who knows about this stuff.

Thanks! 🙏

Has anyone started off with CachyOS, and jumped over to EndeavourOS?

If so, what did EOS offer you over CachyOS?

I’m planning to use KDE Plasma and wondering which one uses less RAM and runs lighter overall.

For those who have tried both, is there any noticeable difference?

Or is it pretty much the same since both use KDE?

Would appreciate your opinions!

Mine is from 2008, running EndeavourOS KDE Plasma. Still smooth, and boots surprisingly fast! 😂

Anyone using an even older HDD?