Been running EndeavourOS for a few years now and it really is the best desktop OS I've ever used. It's up to date, fast, always works, looks beautiful and an update is just a yay away.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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Love this Distro, its been my go to for years.
I've been really happy with Nobara, but if I ever go back to Arch it'll be through EndeavourOS for sure.
I'm finally making the jump to EOS when my new desktop gets here ~Monday, so this timing is awesome. Super excited!
I've set up several distros on VMs lately (CachyOS, Bazzite, EOS, PikaOS, NixOS, and more), and Endeavor has one of the absolute best installation and onboarding experiences.
Something about it just feels so polished, though keep an eye on PikaOS. They've got some great UX people on their team.
Splendid! I have a laptop running Arch, and while I did set that one up manually, it was a lot of work. Next time, when I do it on my gaming PC, I'm definitely using Endeavour
XFCE 4.20 blaze it 🔥
Funny, just installed EOS on my new system and it's been great! Only had a few small hiccups with setup due to the strange setup I have.
How does EOS compare to Pop?
EOS is based on Arch and Pop is based on Ubuntu. So, biggest difference will be more up-to-date packages.
Well Pop is based on Ubuntu, while EndeavourOS is based on Arch. So package availability is a little different. I've never really had issues with either but only really checked out Pop for a few weeks. I'm typing this from my EOS rig I play all my games on that's been stable and happy for maybe a year now.
One distro is fairly similar (or can be made similar) to another more or less if you get into it. I've found EndeavourOS pretty damn easy to set up and run for what that's worth and run it on three different machines right now.
Ah right. I've ran Arch before but got tired of things breaking sometimes so I wanted something more stable. How stable is EOS? Are a lot of manual fixes needed?
eos is as close to vanilla arch as you can get while still being plug-and-play, basically. they have a remote for all their own stuff and if you remove that from pacman, you're running normal arch. the main thing that's different is they ship with common-sense configs and a graphical installer. no manjaro-like "kernel update service".
it's honestly perfectly stable. if you're worried about things breaking when the kernel updates, run a LTS kernel.
Looks cool!