Manjaro vs EndeavourOS | DistroWars

Today we will look at two arch-based distros. #Manjaro is a fine distro and my choice for new Arch users to get up and running, but #EndeavourOS is quickly becoming one of my favorite installers. Let's compare the two on #DistroWars!

Manjaro:

Endeavour:

00:00 Introduction
04:07 Manjaro
08:49 Endeavour
14:20 Conclusion

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[TheBigGiant_SpaceChiken]

Unless the Manjaro team starts doing something to change the user experience, I will stick with Manjaro (KDE). Ever since I moved over to mostly Linux. I have tried Linux Mint (Cinnamon), KDE Plasma (that's where I fell in love the KDE desktop), Zorin OS, Kubuntu and now Manjaro. Manjaro has become my daily driver for many reasons. As long as it gives me the user experience I have now, I'm done distro hopping. But if something where to happen, I will stay on some Arch distro for sure.

[tonyv]

I love Manjaro. The "slow" rolling release combined with the AUR is a compelling combo.

[andrepessoa]

My first contact with Arch was through Antergos. Man, how I enjoyed that distro! I got really sad when the project died. Then, I used vanilla Arch. Since it has a bleeding edge always fresh update police I ran into some issues. Sometimes updates make the system crash and I ended up wasting some time to reconfig. That’s why I’ve started using Manjaro. It’s a more tamed Arch version. I haven’t tested EndevourOS yet, though. Excellent video. Greetings from Brazil.

[This-Is-The-End]

I'm new linux user, I tried KDE Neon for a short time then switched to Manjaro and I had not booted to windows since then :) I haven't tried Endavour though, it looks very good distro

[robertjoseph]

Jumped to Endeavour on my laptop and having a MUCH better experience than I did with Manjaro. It's going to be the daily driver on my desktop hopefully this weekend. Currently on plasma with kronkite on the laptop.

[happyfeet]

I'm using mabox thats based on manjaro with the openbox desktop and it's blown me away. Openbox is brilliant & the manjaro base is rock solid & stable

[bunnihilator]

Becoming "very corporate" is a very good thing because instead of getting hobbist to code in spare time and getting an inconsistent, throughout time, software development and updates, etc; it means that the OS will have a strong support behind with developers on payroll to actually dedicate on full OS development and that the company has a defined vision for the OS. So it's actually a really good think since it becomes somethin not amateurish but professional. You guys actually need to grow your way of thinking when it comes to the business and stop these childish thoughts. It's because of Canonical a corporation that Linux went this far and now everyone wants to make the next Ubuntu and dissing on the plate they once ate. You should be very grateful that Manjaro is making a bussiness and dedication about this OS, and actually taking it seriously.

[justhitreset]

I'm on windows and am interested in linux. When I see people complain that Manjaro is getting "corporate" as a bad thing, I have to laugh. Being more corporate, structured, and well-funded is the only thing that will allow linux to become a true competitor. I'm glad it has some added bloat to make the user experience better.

[Kneedragon]

If you choose the Endeavour Offline method, (for an XFCE install) you get pretty much exactly the desktop setup you see in the installer (almost) which is extremely polished and tidy and good looking and functional. If you choose the Online method and XFCE, you still get XFCE but it's a pretty much vanilla install ~ looks & feels nothing like the very well put together example in the installer. To change that vanilla install to the version in the installer, that'd be a lot of work. If there's an easy way or a script or something, I couldn't find it. I did a complete re-install (offline) to get that, because it really is very good. The other version is Mate, and that's fairly vanilla. Fortunately, I've been using Mate (and gnome2 before it) for a long time, so getting a reasonably tidy & functional desktop there took me about 20 minutes, but it looks and feels like one of my other installs, not some new toy to play with. You kinda have to remind yourself you're not running Debian or Ubuntu, because apart from the different package manager, it's pretty much identical to those. It doesn't look or feel 'Arch' in any way...

[merkink]

That non-HTOP system monitoring tool in EndeavourOS looked like "Glances". Cheers!

[Kneedragon]

Seeing as I've got two versions of both of these, I'll watch it....

[Tailslol]

tried manjaro gnome and man this is amazing
love the layout switcher in it.

[pb]

I moved to Linux after using windows for over 25 years, and that would have never been possible without Manjaro for me Manjaro is amazing you want a GUI? Use it don't want to just want to use yay? Do that yes Manjaro has a lot of S out of box but you can delete everything you don't need no biggy

[ryanz]

Was using Manjaro KDE for quite a few years on different laptops. Finally decided to wipe MacOS on my MbP, but sadly I find getting the wifi to work properly with Manjaro is a bit of a headache so I'm using KDE Neon. Not overly crazy about Ubuntu based distros anymore, but they thankfully give the option to install third party drivers during install of the system.

Having said that, Manjaro KDE is otherwise an amazing and surprisingly lightweight system. Only "issues" I've ever had with it, was a few years ago Discord was an absolute pain to install, now you can get it through the software manager.

[markharrisllb]

Please may I ask which is the best for a laptop that was built three years before Stephenson's Rocket? I do have a Raspberry OS and a Mint Mate which are both great 'out of the box' systems for me and are both very stable. My Ubuntu system of the other hand isn’t at all stable and I’m thinking it's the 2.1GHz dual core CPU and 8Gb of DDR2 RAM that aren’t up to the task as that’s the same machine my Mint Mate is on. I also have a Windows laptop and an iMac which is my main computer. So investing in learning Arch doesn’t worry me as I've plenty of choice if I mess up, though I do want a system that gives me a start.

[sankarsingh]

You can install snap and flatpak extension in pamac by running
yay -S pamac-all

No need manjaro for this.. 🙂

[adrianakuzmikova]

what is the best linux if I wanna use some windows applications?

[imhemish]

Could anybody tell me what is the use of package (application) named "software token (stoken) which was in both manjaro and endaveour

[sdtechconsulting]

Manjaro with the cinnamon desktop is my distro of choice. I have it on my laptop and as soon as I get my Nvidia GPU it's going on my ryzen desktop as well. That way I can use davinci resolve studio with zero issues on Linux and finally ditch windows.

[philipstaite]

Wait, problems with Manjaro? But I'm just coming to Manjaro, don't tell me it is time to look at something else! :-/ I've been experimenting with Manjaro on a couple of laptops - one sole install, one dual boot with Win10. I'm just about ready to pull the trigger and replace KDE Neon on my main system with Manjaro...