I've used both. Manjaro, in their attempt to be "user friendly", winds up disconnecting you from what makes Arch good. EndeavorOS, on the other hand, is basically Arch nicely set up for a "daily driver" PC along with some nice tools of their own you can use or not at your discretion. I've also used just plain Arch and I actually prefer EndeavourOS of the three.
TBH I want “user friendly” with up to date drivers. Most Ubuntu bases distros dont offer that and fedora doesn’t have the same support with copr that AUR has.
While I don’t agree with Manjaro’s parent company, as someone who doesn’t want to tinker with their os, I prefer it.
I was expecting the responses to be more mixed. But pretty much the issues I see here confirms to me that Manjaro is not the winner. I think Endeavour is going to be the one I will install.
FWIW i’ve been using endeavouros for about a month and i’m absolutely in love with it. their installer is super easy to use and i’m just liking how lightweight and customizable arch is
After migrating from Solus a while ago I tried Manjaro, but quickly decided Endeavour OS seemed better. I mostly wanted Arch with some sane defaults so I think it was a better fit for me. However, I think plain Arch is also a strong contender despite IMO more annoying setup. I have had some issues with keys not syncing properly from the EOS repository.
I have switched from manjaro to endeavouros about a month ago. I definitely prefer endeavouros. However, the kernel install GUI in manjaro was nice, made it very easy to get an overview of the available kernels and which ones are still getting support.
I ran Manjaro for over a year. It’s considerably slower than endeavourOS. I don’t know why, but the system was always sluggish and always broke for me. Also, I don’t think that their stable branch is a rolling release anymore. They wait over a month to push updates, sometimes even longer. I’ve been running EOS for about a year now. Zero issues. Light as hell. You may have to install some things, but I like it a lot. And if you don’t feel comfortable using the terminal all the time, just install octopi. Some people hate it, but I love it. Much better than Manjaro’s buggy Pamac. Only downside of octopi is that it doesn’t support flatpaks. For that I’ve installed discover with the packegkit and I’m good on flatpak. It also works very well with the AUR/EOS/Arch repos.
EndeavourOS is my preference. I appreciate that they don’t really modify the Arch experience in any annoying way. Manjaro seems to always break shit. Plus the EOS forums are amazing.
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