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What is your honest opinion on EndeavourOS? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I made a post a few days ago asking your opinion on Manjaro and it was very mixed, with a slightly negative overall opinion. I heard some recommend EndeavourOS instead and did some online research and it seems to be pretty solid and not have the repository problem that Manjaro has.

Just for context I am a Linux noob and have only used Mint for about the past six months. While I don't have any major complaints, I am looking to explore more distros and the Arch repository with its rolling releases. I am not a huge fan of how certain packages on apt are a few years old and outdated. However, I also don't have the time to be always configuring my OS and just want something that works well out of the box.

Is EndeavourOS a solid choice?

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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've used Arch on all of my systems for almost 9 years now. Installing it from scratch takes me 15 minutes, without any pre-existing configs, because I'm just familiar with the process, and what I want on my finished system. It works, and it works well.

That said, Endeavour is great. To me, it's a no-bullshit Arch-based (important distinction) distribution, and the "sane defaults", if you will, are reasonable to me. I don't necessarily agree with all of their config choices, but that's just to be expected on Linux on general.

I would definitely recommend this to practically anyone