EOS provides some more QoL features, it’s not just the installation itself (a button to update mirrors, auto keyring update, some nice pre-installed things like yay, etc)

If you need an Arch installation ready to go out of the box, EOS is a solid choice.

Edit: not trying to convince you to jump to EOS, just providing a bit more context about the distro

My wife found it accessible enough that I switched my own setup to it for consistency and it's done well. But yeah if arch works don't consider switching

archinstall straight up could not deal with the partition setup I wanted, EOS installed without problems. Something about installing btrfs with multiple subvolumes next to Windows on the same drive.

I have used both Arch and Eos. I use a special tiling wm, and I have Nvidia. Form Arch I have to install everything I need, from Eos I just select install without a wm/dm remove some bloat and install the missing. Almost the same outcome, almost the same time to set up. So it does not matter (for me).

Out of the box Eos provieds ease, Arch provides knowledge (along the way). I have friends which are tech savy enough to daily drive Eos, but unintrested to learn how the linux ecosystem works by installing Arch (at least until a bug forces them to read the wiki)

That’s why I use Hannah Montanna Linux

This is why I never used Ubuntu.

I call that the IPA method

Had the opposite experience, tried Endevour first, must have done something wrong as it started running like ass/freezing up constantly requiring a full reboot to come back.

Swapped to bazzite and didn't have that issue again, I did get to learn more about how to work with mutable distros too.

Ultimately didn't matter much as that laptop died about a year later anyway, it won't turn on at all anymore, good run of like 10 years tho.

Same experience with bazzite.I had a very strange issue with packages completly gone after using LACT to experiment and managing to freeze my os.

TBH I realised immutable systems aren't for me and I am not a linux noob, so I immediately went back to Arch and never looked back.

archinstall is amazing btw. Best installer by far IMHO. shit free, takes 30s to setup an arch system with great defaults. Nothing beats it for me.

Edit: for me someone using "I use void btw" would make more sense.

😡

Just use Arch like a normal well adjusted person

Nod-nod!

Endeavour is Arch. It uses the Arch repos.

If it isn't Arch, then those automated Windows 11 installers with pre-configurations used by enterprises aren't Windows. Of course they are.

I've done full manual installs and archinstall installs of mainline arch and I would argue endevouros is arch. It's more than just "arch based" it's literally a basic arch install with calamaris. It updates from official arch repos and arch kernal ect.

While I only tell people I use endevouros I do not understand why anyone cares if an endevouros user says they use arch lol. What is the difference between that and something like archinstall besides slightly easier btrfs configs?

I'd consider CatchyOS to be in the arch based category but not EndevourOS

Cause it's funny to say arch btw

Yeah, I use Endeavour and I would never say I use Arch. I've never installed Arch. That's like the whole thing about it.

for me at least, endevour and cachy dont rlly have an identity, they feel like Arch but easier to install with very little difference in actual use

Because Endevour and Cachy are based on Arch, btw.

EndeavourOS makes running an Arch system easier, that's all. Could swap out EndeavourOS with CachyOS and the meme would be the same.