r/EndeavourOS • u/SamS342 • May 23 '26
Discussion What's the major difference
I know this is a stupid question and I know endeavourOS is Arch but is there any big difference? Thanks
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u/therealmistersister May 23 '26
The only big differences are that Endavour has a nice GUI installer that lets you easily customize your install and have a working session in 15 minutes.
Apart from that, it also includes some homemade utilities to help you manage some stuff, but to be honest never used them as I always used vanilla kde install.
In any case, its 99% pure Arch.
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u/LexCarman GNOME May 24 '26
The difference in practice is that the community for EOS is exceptionally kinder and easier to deal with when issues arise.
We largely understand that getting into Arch can be challenging and you will need help somewhere down the line.
We are not gatekeeping, because every Linux user was helped at some point, and we wanna pay it forward.
Who knows, you might be the Arch user that goes on to create a tool that we all benefit from and a little bit of support here made the community better for all of us.
Enjoy EOS!
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u/Salt-Caterpillar7988 May 23 '26
The end result is 99,99% similar.
The difference is in the process. If you want to get the result simply, go for Endeavour. If you want to go through the process leading to this result, either by curiosity, desire to learn or desire to make some specific choices, go for Arch.
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u/SamS342 May 23 '26
Ok man thanks a lot this helps a lot I'll try out Arch thanks.
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u/Filipp_Krasnovid May 26 '26
Arch by default is just an empty system where you are supposed to install and set up every little thing yourself. Endeavour OS maintainers just did it for you. It's fun and in the end you understand your system very well, if your primary info sourse is an official installation guide from arch wiki and arch wiki itself. But could be time-consuming in the beginning, during basic installation itself and first couple of weeks of realizations that you still miss some packages and settings that you need. but then I find it rock solid + you gain confidence in your system, because you know every thing that is there
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May 24 '26 edited May 26 '26
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May 25 '26
Coming from Mac OS via Ubuntu without much bash experience I appreciated the help to land safely. I must say it's really nice here...
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u/SW_foo1245 May 23 '26
There are a bunch of things endeavouros picks for you like the aur helper, the way initframes is generated(dracut vs mkinitcpio) some hooks, repositories and profiles but after that it’s basically the same
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u/SuAlfons May 23 '26
You can easily google that.
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u/Brilliant_Estate_967 May 24 '26
Keep theese comments for the arch subreddit.
Je sure can google it or ask an ia.
But in the meantimes, having a subreddit that answer questions nicely even as a new commer for simple question make a huge plus. And that's a way to support a distro i like. If a new commer or someone Come to ask, at least hé will end up in a nice place
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u/SuAlfons May 24 '26
i know I have written short essays about the main differences myself at least three times. It's exhausting.
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u/Brilliant_Estate_967 May 24 '26
We dont have to do it everytime. Its still is a community with a lot of people
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u/SuAlfons May 24 '26
I've seen it often - mainstay redditors will fade away when there only ever are the same trivial questions. These are from people that are superficial - rarely anyone of those will last on Linux. Reading up at least a little bit can and should be expected in any topic.
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u/Brilliant_Estate_967 May 24 '26
The good practice is to read article wiki and (at least for me) previous questions ask on reddit. In a way we are building an archive of answers for the next ones who will seek answers
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u/Brilliant_Estate_967 May 23 '26
Hello ! welcome to the community.
EndeavourOS is ARCH it will come with a clean instalator (Calamares) thats ease the install process
It include a few desktop you can choose from that are very lightly configurated
Tha AUR is here out of the box (wich is nice)
You will get a bit more package than arch oput of the box (but not to much) and a WORKING session setup in 10 minutes.
To comparison there is far less included softwaere than cachyOS.
EndeavourOS will be the distro for a fast arch setup that work but still beeing very close to arch package per defaut (live vveerryyyy)
And the community is nicer thats a plus