EndeavourOS

Reader supplied reviews for EndeavourOS Average rating 8.5 from 410 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. 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: -- 2025.03.192024.09.222024.04.2011-202322.1221.52020.09.202019.12.22 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: 2025.03.19 Rating: 1 Date: 2025-04-25 Votes: 0 Chose the xfce version since I have an nvidia card and only xfce plays nice all the time. Well choice is a thing I was tricked into, I chose xfce and got an installer with a kde DE and it wouldn't install since kde was likely using xwayland and it really doesn't work and it also uses Qt which is "quite terrible" to use with nvidia so in the log windows it was debugging more than installing endeavour. They might think kde is nice but it's like a bully when it's on a system with nvidia so debugging is all it did then it couldn't pacstrap so instead of keeping all the files it spent 45 minuted downloading it just dumped the install with an upload to the web with the error pacstrap failed. That is a fail since the failure was to not have an xfce live DE to install the xfce version I chose on their website but that was online install and kde was the only offline so they should have saved me hours downloading and a failed install twice. Just make an xfce installer for xfce who are mostly nvidia users since beside a few WM's it's the only DE that works well with nvidia, gnome kind of works and kde is hot trash and buggy on it's own but with nvidia it's like a drunk that is blindfolded, worst choice possible and the one the decided to use that because it's pretty should not be making that choice again since they did not use logic just preference for their system. I like endeavour before and now it's the one that I deleted from my list of good smart distro's for this massive blunder in installer choice. I'd give it a -200 if I could for my wasted day and evening but that is impossible. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2025.03.19 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-04-25 Votes: 0 So far I am enjoying this distro. Unbloated, bare minimum, everything else you need you can almost always get through pacman and yay. A few others software like spotify can be added by installing flatpak. It's clean and lean distro, fast and reliable, I haven't faced any problem for the past two weeks I've been using it. I opted for GNOME DE since that's my favourite linux flavor. I wanted to do an Arch distro to replace my ubuntu desktop, and read that this distro is basically Arch with a gui installer. You can add recommended cli tools during installation like duf, hwinfo, inxi etc. and after complete what's missing easily, in my case I added lsd and yazi. The only tool I removed was tldr and replaced it with the fastest tealdeer app. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2025.03.19 Rating: 1 Date: 2025-04-24 Votes: 0 I cannot rate this negative. Only reason I would is someone dropped the ball, I tried with Nvidia drivers, default install efi, and the safe one. I'm upset now since I tried like 5 times to install it, boots fast and they must have used a vm to test this iso since it boot into a blank screen with the cursor that moves fine and nothing else, waited around a 1/2 hr and nothing else loaded. Someone needs to add quality control back to endeavour since it's acting like the shuttle did and is failing hard and they made a good installer before but now it's really bad. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 410 reader reviews of EndeavourOS...