If you run endeavour, you are basically getting Arch with a familiar installer, a few useful helper scripts, and a friendly community. You are still expected to know your hardware and your install. You are still expected to keep up with the Arch news, and make any manual interventions required. If you do that, endeavour is remarkably reliable.

Recently endeavour changed the way they deal with some firmware related packages

Actually, that was Arch and as Endeavour uses the Arch repositories + the AUR, and their own repository for their additions, they were naturally affected.

Fucking hell, what is wrong with people? Looks at the US. Oh right.

Endeavour OS is the best because you get all the benefits of Arch combined with a familiar and friendly installer, a good out of the box setup with the desktop of your choice. Not to mention the outstanding community that’s built up around it.

Oh. You’re one of them. I can safely ignore you.

If it wasn’t on by default, the kind of person who would benefit from it wouldn’t discover it.

Amazon, Mir, Unity, Snap etc.

Yes

For the Atari ST, although I actually preferred Hisoft Basic.

At home, Atari ST and at work IBM System/38 where the manuals had their own office.

Yeah, but to fair, we had comprehensive manuals.

I used to work with a guy who would, genuinely, use the mouse to copy and paste individual characters.

You have backups? Right?

Ah! The glory days!

That’s for you to decide.

Nowadays it also has binary packages.

Good for him. It’s a reminder that the rules apply to everybody.

EndeavourOS, it’s Arch with a familiar installer, several useful helper scripts, and a friendly community.

No Probs. I’m happy to help.

Yeah, you will need to install the X11 session as detailed in the news page I linked. To summarise sudo pacman -Syu plasma-x11-session