Start your Endeavour
with a lightweight Arch-based, terminal-centric system ready to personalise and a stellar community at your side
System requirements
15 GB
free disk space
4 GB
RAM
64-bit
64-bit dual-core Intel or AMD processor
The installer still handles older machines, but modern EFI (UEFI) systems without legacy CSM mode work best.
What you get out of the box
Firefox
A free and open-source web browser.
Pacman
The package manager for Arch and EndeavourOS.
Yay
An AUR helper that makes installing from the Arch User Repository straightforward.
FirewallD
A firewall running the default public zone out of the box.
Pipewire
A low-level multimedia framework for audio and video capture and playback, with low latency. Supports PulseAudio, JACK, ALSA and GStreamer.
EOS-hwtool
Our hardware management tool for handling VM and GPU drivers.
Dracut
A flexible tool for building initramfs images. Convertible to mkinitcpio if you prefer.
Power-profile-daemon
Adjusts system behaviour to your power preference. Enabled by default.
Glances
A cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python.
Choose your bootloader
systemd-boot
Fast and minimal, for modern EFI systems. The EndeavourOS default.
GRUB
Broad compatibility across EFI and older BIOS systems, and the only option on legacy hardware.
You can also skip bootloader installation entirely and add EndeavourOS to an existing bootloader yourself.
Contribute to development
We are always glad of new perspectives. If you would like to get involved, our development happens in the open.