EndeavourOS: Our new ISO release is here, meet Mercury
EndeavourOS: Our new ISO release is here, meet Mercury
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.
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.
eos is as close to vanilla arch as you can get, basically. they have a remote for all their own stuff and if you remove that from 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.
Purple was always Neptune for me.
Mercury a bit more orange…