Reader supplied reviews for EndeavourOS
Average rating
8.4 from 317 review(s)
Version: 11-2023
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-02-03
Votes: 6
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EndeavourOS is like a nice coworker that help you perform a new complicated task.
It's minimal, but not that complicated. Post install steps available at their own wiki.
If you encountered any problem, chance that you'll find answers on their forum. Speaking about forum, their community is very helpful. They will explain solutions first, followed by link to Arch/Endeavour wiki.
I used this distro mostly for web browsing and video games (Deep Rock Galactic, Left 4 Dead 2, Doom Eternal to name a few) and it perform just well. No CPU hiccups during non-intense in-game moments. Make sure to create swap partition during installation to avoid your whole system freezing.
- x11 session by default. Wayland has to be installed manually.
- ext4 or btrfs choice during installation.
- Nvidia driver friendly.
- Multilib uncommented by default (so you can install Steam straight away).
- Arch kernel manager (akm) can be installed to manage and install another kernel such as zen kernel (sudo pacman -S akm)
I highly recommend this distro to newcommer. Steps on their website (wiki) comes with attachments such as picture, screenshot and command line that you can easily copy/paste unlike Arch's wiki that looks like complete dictionary.
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Version: 11-2023
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-31
Votes: 11
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I just got a new computer with Windows 11, and I found EndeavourOS to be a great way to get an Arch system up and running very quickly. Super simple, fast install, and I actually love some of the non-Arch tools. Their reflector thing helped me get insane fast download speeds for the first time ever really, and having a gui package manager makes things so much easier. I've been an Arch user for years, and even I have issues installing it raw. There's always some little detail you have to track down, even though you've read the wiki. I'm writing this on an Arch install that involved more than a few hiccups
(why does SDDM not get pulled in, let alone enabled, by installing plasma?). EndeavourOS has smoothed all that out completely. Great distro!
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Version: 11-2023
Rating: 8
Date: 2024-01-16
Votes: 0
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It's a fast and no bloat distro. The fact that it's rolling is a huge bonus. However, there are some bugs that I haven't experienced with my current distro. So, I'm only limiting my usage on a usb drive and a sd card. My persistent problems seem to happen after installation and major system updates: no grub menu and system booting directly to cli, which required a complete reinstallation. In the latter case, it gave me an option to fix it by making changes as root, but I had no idea what caused the crash/failure and what to fix. Then there's another issue with external drives: sometimes plugging in a flash drive, usb drive, or a SATA drive caused the system to crash. There's nothing to be done until I had to restart the system. If it didn't crash, at time it borked the data on the drive (unknown file system bit), which required testdisk to recover (not always successful). This is really puzzling to me. I have no problem when I plug those same drives to another linux OS previously. But after EOS borked the data, my other linux OS sometimes had a problem reading it, too (testdisk to the rescue); other times, no issue.
I hope the devs look into these quirks and "re-tune" the system, because I really like the simplicity (in a good way), slimness, and speed of this rolling distro.
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