EndeavourOS

Reader supplied reviews for EndeavourOS Average rating 8.6 from 467 review(s) Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on EndeavourOS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 2026.04.272026.01.122025.03.192024.09.222024.04.2011-202322.1221.52020.09.202019.12.22 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 2026.04.27 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-06-05 Country: United States Votes: 14 I came from Kubuntu and the difference was immediately noticeable. Boot times, application launches, overall responsiveness. EndeavourOS is snappier across the board. The install is lean by default as you're pulling straight from Arch repos with no middleman holding packages back or padding the system with bloat. Visually it's clean and I love the spacey theming. Gaming is where it really separated itself. My Kubuntu setup had occasional friction, driver quirks, Steam issues, Proton inconsistencies. On EndeavourOS those problems went away entirely. Fresher kernel, closer-to-upstream drivers, rolling release keeping everything current, whatever the reason, it just works, consistently. Zero issues in daily use. The forum community is also one of the better ones I've used in the Linux space. They are knowledgeable and actually helpful without being jerks. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2026.04.27 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-05-09 Country: United States Votes: 36 I've distro-hopped more times than I care to admit. Fedora, Manjaro, Mint, Nobara, various Ubuntu flavors, I've spent plenty of time with all of them. EndeavourOS is where I finally stopped. I run it as a gaming machine and it's been rock solid. No driver headaches, no weird compatibility issues, just a system that stays out of the way. The EndeavourOS team doesn't stray far from Arch and that's kind of the point. What they do add is a genuinely slick installer and some of the best default theming I've seen on a Linux distro. It looks good without trying too hard. Fair warning though, this isn't a set-it-and-forget-it distro. Updates happen through the terminal and on a rolling release you want to stay on top of them. That said, the commands are dead simple and the EndeavourOS forum community is probably the most helpful I've come across in years of Linux use. You won't be left hanging. If you want Arch without the painful manual install process and you're willing to get comfortable with a few terminal commands, this is the easiest path there. It's been on my drive longer than anything else and I don't see that changing. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2026.04.27 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-05-06 Country: Germany Votes: 18 The best Arch for users. I love Arch, and the developers have turned d clean OS into a real treat. I had zero problems, and after installation, there's no need to spend ages fiddling around the OS. A little more detail. I have ASUS laptop with RTX 5050, and I had to configure compatibility, yes. I chose the option to manually configure the dGPU, but you can also choose to install the video drivers automatically. But in the age of AI, it took 10 minutes and one reboot. It was also very easy to configure the display refresh rate switching when changing power modes (but this is a KDE feature). Switching between graphics cards works quite well, but even better, the dGPU goes into sleep mode, so the battery lasts well. I don't understand exactly how, but programs launch instantly! Steam in 10 seconds, Libreoffice in 1! So I recommend everyone try this great Linux distribution. ASUS v16 v3607v Intel 210H RTX5050 8GB RAM 32GB nvme 500GB Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 467 reader reviews of EndeavourOS...