EndeavourOS is an Arch-based distro that provides an Arch experience without the hassle of installing it manually for x86_64 and ARM devices. After installation, you’re provided with a lightweight and almost bare-bones environment ready to be explored with your terminal, along with our home-built Welcome App as a powerful guide to help you along.
Go for the complete release notes of our latest release, Endeavour Neo over here and if you are curious to start exploring, use the Magnet, Torrent link or select a mirror near you below to download the ISO.
In the case of installing EndeavourOS on older hardware using legacy BIOS with the manual partition option chosen, GRUB doesn’t get installed. The workaround for this is to create an empty 8 MiB partition and flag it as BIOS-GRUB in the Calamares installer using a GPT partition table instead of MBR. This way the bootloader will get installed as a grub2core image on that partition. When the automatic install option is chosen, the installation will be fine.
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We are continuously looking for fresh eyes on our development. If you are interested in doing so and joining the team, visit our GitHub page.
Minimum system requirements
2.5 GB of RAM (offline installs)(1).
Dual Core Processor (64 bit, x86-64, amd64).
15 GB of Hard drive space.
Installer still supports legacy Bios only systems, but it is recommended to run modern EFI (UEFI) systems not on legacy (CSM) mode.
Note: These are the absolute minimum requirements to use the operating system and be able to run the installer. Applications, options, games, etc. may need better specifications. Modern browsers alone often require around 2 GB of RAM to run smoothly.
(1) to be able to run online installs 4 GB or more are recommended.
What you can expect
An easy-to-use installer
The Calamares installer guides you through the first steps of installing the system with the option for an offline KDE Plasma 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…
Window managers
We also have the Window managers Sway, Qtile, BSPWM, Openbox, and Worm all ready to use with a selection of pre-settings, ready to make your jumpstart. These WMs aren’t available through the ISO but can be manually installed. Just go to our GitHub page for more info…
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 and packages to start your deep dive into an Arch-based system. To highlight some of those…
A powerful free and open-source web browser. Read more about Firefox Browser
Pacman
The default terminal-operated package manager for the Arch- and EndeavourOS-repo packages. Read more on Pacman
Yay
A terminal-operated AUR helper that installs packages from the Arch User Repository with ease. Read more about Yay
FirewallD
A secure basic firewall using the default public zone running by default. Read more about Firewalld
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. Read more about Pipewire
Nvidia installer
A terminal-operated app that lets you easily install the right Nvidia driver and/or hybrid set-up required for your machine. Read More about nvidia-inst
Dracut
A highly modular tool for generating initramfs images, which easily can be manually converted to mkinitcpio, if needed. Read more about Dracut
Power-Profiles-Daemon
power-profiles-daemonoffers to modify system behaviour based upon user-selected power profiles. Enabled by default
Our Welcome app will guide you to the information needed for your first steps into the system and also provide you with some handy tools you will be able to use even beyond your initial setup…
Our stellar community is there to give you a push forward
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