Quoting: tmtvlI love Arch, I keep bouncing between it and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (I'm on TW at the moment, but I was running Arch for most of 2024 and 2025). I don't think that these 'user-friendly' Arch distros are a good idea. Arch users are really meant to understand our systems and keep up to date with the Arch announcements so we can keep things running. I realise that sounds a bit elitist, so what I mean to say is it's easy to overlook something and break something, therefore a distro which wants to make Arch accessible for users who don't have an interest in reading all the announcements and documentation should set up a testing platform to test updates before delivering them to users and maintain patches to prevent breakage. Taking ownership of AUR packages and integrating them in the distros repositories would also help avoid issues propping up.

That said, I guess these distros are useful for Arch users who can maintain everything in the system and who don't care to manually set up their systems, although it seems to me like it creates a huge burden on the user who then has to figure out everything the distro's set up does. ...oh well, maybe I would be convinced by an Arch distro which sets up SELinux (which is what drew me back to OpenSUSE).

I respectfully disagree. I've been using Linux since '97 and know my way around the system quite well. But I have a full time job, a family, kids, etc. I've installed Arch in the past... been there, done that. I love Endeavour because it gives me the system I want (Arch+XFCE) without all the fuss. 5 minutes install, then add a few packages (vim, Steam, Gimp, sshfs, openrgb (to turn off all those annoying leds on some of my computers), openscad, cura, liquorix kernel and the most important of all, terminus-font which is the best terminal font ever) and its all set up. I bought a used laptop this week, it was all set in 15 minutes. And in the end, its barely any different than what I would have built from the ground with vanilla Arch. Maybe if I had built it from the ground I would have went astray and spent hours getting rid of systemd, but I don't want to spend those hours. And lately systemd has been less of a headache than in the past... anyway, if one day I absolutely need to get rid of systemd, I'd go with Gentoo over Arch.

Anyway, all of this to say that those easy-arch-install-distros are not necessarily targeted to beginners. Experienced users love them too.

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A new release is usually slight tweaks to the package selection that's installed by default. They also update the Welcome app and other small things. But yeah, Endeavour is just a quick installer for Arch. In 5 minutes you have an up and running Arch system with a decent selection of pre-installed packages and a desktop manager of your choice from a short list they offer.

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That's excellent! Can't wait to try it tomorrow! I don't expect it to be better than Vintage Story, but I'm sure its still going to be lots of fun.

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Time to switch to an exponential trend line!

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AMD's worst product naming scheme ever. It's almost impossible to know what is what without looking at the specs.

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That's all I needed. I pre-purchased it!

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Yeah, the game looks amazing, but the price seems pretty hefty... I really do want to encourage day 1 Linux support though... big dilemma.

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I've been using Endeavour for a while now. I like it enough that I started to install it on other computers in the house. Its not perfect by any means, and you still get the occasional Arch packages breakage. But considering how my older Ubuntu boxes keep breaking all the time because that distro is now an absolute mess (aw snap!), I can live with the occasional Arch problems.

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I wasn't too fond on the Terraria collab, but in the end it wasn't too disruptive to the game (a single dungeon, easily ignored). I hope its going to be the same for this update, nice for the fans, easily ignored by everyone else.

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Finally the ugly smoothing is off by default. That was so annoying, every time I introduced someone to the game, I had to send them a config file with sane graphical settings before we could play or they would complain the game was an ugly mess. Explaining to them which of the 10000 settings to change was way too complicated.

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