Welcome to EndeavourOS

A terminal-centric distro with a vibrant and friendly community at its core

A friendly community

A vibrant and friendly community, the beating heart of this distro, to guide you through your journey.

Latest features and download

Experience our distro with a light and always evolving base. Read and download it on our latest release page.

Discovery

The EndeavourOS knowledge base, the place where you can find our wiki articles and video tutorials, is here as your guideline during your exploration in building your unique and personal system.

Create your own destiny with an incredible journey

An easy-to-use installer

The Calamares installer guides you through the first steps of installing the system with the option for an offline Xfce installation or an online installation with plenty of choices…

Eight desktop environments and one Window manager

The online installation allows you to choose Xfce, Plasma, Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon, Budgie, LxQt, LxDe and i3-wm, but there’s more…

Five community editions to choose from

Sway, Qtile, BSPWM, Openbox and an EndeavourOS exclusive WM called Worm, created and maintained by a team of community members, are five more options on top of the Desktop environments ready for you to explore…

A basic installation ready to tweak

No matter which method, DE or WM you choose, they all have one thing in common, a basic and almost bare-boned installation with a modest but powerful selection of terminal-operated apps to start your deep dive into an Arch-based system. To highlight some of those…

Firefox	A powerful free and open-source web browser
Pacman	A terminal-operated package manager for the Arch repositories
Yay	A terminal-operated AUR helper that installs packages from the Arch User Repository with ease
FirewallD	A secure basic firewall using the default public zone running by default
Pipewire	A new low-level multimedia framework. It aims to offer capture and playback for both audio and video with minimal latency and support for PulseAudio, JACK, ALSA and GStreamer-based applications.
Downgrade	A terminal-operated package that lets you easily downgrade a package, in case an update causes issues.
Nvidia installer	A terminal-operated app that lets you easily install the right Nvidia driver and/or hybrid set-up required for your machine

The Welcome app, our gateway to your journey

Our Welcome app will guide you to information needed for your first steps into the system and also provides you with some handy tools you will be able to use even beyond your initial set-up…

Our stellar community is there to give you a push forward

Discovery is our knowledge base to help you further in setting up the system to your needs, but we also have a warm and very helpful community on our forum, Reddit, Matrix, Mastodon, Twitter and Telegram group to answer your questions…

Ready to roll up your sleeves?

Are you ready to start your own endeavour with us? Click on the image on the right to discover and download our latest release.

To learn more about our vision and philosophy visit the About us page.

Our mirror partners

We couldn’t provide our services without these valuable partners to mirror our ISO and repo near you.

Name	Location
42tm	Vietnam
Alpix mirror	Germany
Archlinux Taiwan	Taiwan
Birdrepo	Canada
Fast Mirror	Ukraine
Freedif	Germany & Singapore
Jingk	Singapore
Linux pizza	Sweden
Moson	Germany
Remi ESSAISSI	France
Tuna	China
Umeå University	Sweden
YuruMirror	South-Korea

Connect with us:

Our flavours

Xfce

A highly customizable and lightweight Desktop Environment with a traditional touch and feel. The perfect choice for hardware with lower specs. It requires a minimum of 2 GB of RAM, but for a smooth experience we recommend 4 GB of RAM.

Mate

A lightweight Desktop Environment that supports newer technologies with a traditional Desktop. Mate works with a minimum of 2 GB of RAM, but for a smoother experience we recommend 4GB of RAM .

Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a Linux desktop environment reminiscent of GNOME 2 that offers flexibility and speed. For Cinnamon, we recommend 4GB of RAM and up for a smooth experience.

Gnome

Is a modern and customizable Desktop Environment that lets you get things done. For Gnome, we recommend a minimum of 4 GB of RAM for a smooth experience

Budgie

A Desktop Environment that is a mix of modern and traditional. Based on a classical display and an all-in-one settings bar for music, video and more. For Budgie, we recommend a minimum of 4 GB of RAM..

Plasma

Plasma is made to stay out of the way as it helps you get things done. But under its light and intuitive surface, it’s a powerhouse.This puts you in control to spin the dials however you prefer. For Plasma, we recommend a minimum of 4 GB of RAM.

LXQT

LXQt is a lightweight Qt desktop environment that will not get in your way, so it will not hang or slow down your system. It is focused on being a classic desktop with a modern look and feel. LXQt works on a minimum of 2GB of RAM, but for a smoother experience we recommend 4GB of RAM.

LXDE

A very lightweight, component-based Desktop Environment.This is an ideal choice for older hardware with limited resources.

i3-wm

i3-wm is a lightweight Window Manager that operates exclusively with the keyboard. Our version has a simple and easy configuration with LXappearance to handle GTK themes. We do ship the configuration with an easy (and clickable) cheat sheet to get you started. Due to its light resources it really has a small footprint.