Arch has an installer
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Arch is just as easy to install with a smaller ISO and a faster installer. Advertising EndeavourOS to inexperienced users will also lead to issues due to incompatibilities with the wiki due to dracut, the systemd firewall, and potentially systemd-boot.
It's not bad, just not exceptional (like Arch).
Tumbleweed is way worse, zypper is very bad, it's backed by a corporation, no AUR, it's honestly quite mediocre.
Not liking Arch is exclusively a skill issue. You may prefer stable release distros, but you won't find a rolling release distro better than Arch.
Arch, OpenSUSE TW, and Debian Sid are pretty good. As a desktop/WM I'd recommend Hyprland, Plasma, or DWL. Hyprland and DWL take some time to set up and get used to though. GNOME is sort of a pain in the ass, so I wouldn't recommend it unless you use touch gestures a lot.
a megapint?
"upgraded"
I really dislike these Arch forks that don't add anything really special. The more your system differs from a normal Arch install, (dracut on EndeavourOS for example) the less helpful resources will be available. Just use Arch instead.
looks splendid :3
People who are are not able to use or dislike a TUI install script should not be using Arch or an Arch based distro. Especially when taking into account that EndeavourOS doesn't have a GUI package manager.
At least Manjaro has a point with it's slower repos and pamac.
EndeavorOS is just Arch with Calamares, some welcome window bloat, and pacman hooks to have it be distinguished from Arch by neofetch; all at the cost of the install duration: the download is slower, the flashing is slower, the boot is slower, the installer is slower, even pacman is slower due to the hooks.
You can just download in ISO of Arch with Calamares instead, if you really want it (example)
EndeavorOS does not contribute anything to make the install process easier nor to the experience using it. Why it is still so popular after the reintroduction of
archinstallreally remains a mystery to me. I really only view it as a security risk due to the smaller team.