EndeavourOS

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EndeavourOS began as a continuation of the Antergos Linux distribution, a distribution itself based on Arch Linux, a general-purpose Linux distribution. In May 2019, Antergos' developers abruptly announced that development on the project would cease;{{Cite web |last1=Falgout |first1=Dustin |last2=Filgueira |first2=Alexandre |last3=Castells |first3=Gustau |date=2019-05-21 |title=Antergos Linux Project Ends |url=https://antergos.com/blog/antergos-linux-project-ends/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190522145602/https://antergos.com/blog/antergos-linux-project-ends/ |archive-date=2019-05-22 |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=Antergos}} a moderator of Antergos' forums discussed the idea of maintaining the community on a new forum.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024|reason=Need a non-primary source confirming this. I can only find mention of it in EndeavourOS' 'About Us' page.}} The idea received support from within the community, and within a day other Antergos moderators joined the project. Development on EndeavourOS quickly began, with the team planning to create a distribution that would be close to Arch Linux with the convenience of a GUI installer, while leaving GUI Pacman wrappers such as Pamac from the out-of-box installation. The first release was in July 2019.{{Cite web|last=Bryanpwo|date=23 June 2019|title=Welcome to EndeavourOS|url=https://endeavouros.com/uncategorized/welcome-to-endeavouros/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820084431/https://endeavouros.com/uncategorized/welcome-to-endeavouros/|archive-date=20 August 2020|access-date=20 August 2020|website=EndeavourOS|language=en-US}}

On September 11, 2019, EndeavourOS announced that they will release an online magazine, called Discovery, to give their users some background information on Arch commands and to inform them on new packages to explore. The magazine was launched in November 2019.{{cite web |last=Bryanpwo |date= 11 September 2019 |title=Get ready for the next level |url=https://endeavouros.com/news/get-ready-for-the-next-level/ |website=EndeavourOS |access-date=23 April 2022}} It was later discontinued in April 2021 due to a lack of writers.{{cite web |last=Bryanpwo |date=17 April 2021 |title=Our April release is available |url=https://endeavouros.com/news/our-april-release-is-available/ |website=EndeavourOS |access-date=23 April 2022}}

EndeavourOS used to offer "community editions" providing the window managers QTile, BSPWM, Openbox and the EndeavourOS exclusive Worm, as well as the Sway Wayland compositor. These were discontinued starting with the "Galileo" release due to a lack of maintainers and were officially removed with the release of the Galileo ISO on November 20, 2023.{{Cite web |last=Bryanpwo |date=2023-10-10 |title=Our Galileo release is delayed but here are the main changes you can expect |url=https://endeavouros.com/news/our-galileo-release-is-delayed-but-here-are-the-main-changes-you-can-expect/ |access-date=2023-10-31 |website=EndeavourOS |language=en-US}}

EndeavourOS uses the Calamares system installer. While EndeavourOS was originally planned to ship with Cnchi, the net-installer used by Antergos, technical difficulties resulted in the adoption of an offline installer based on Portergos, a Linux distribution also based on Antergos, as a stop-gap until the issues could be resolved later in development.{{Cite web|url=https://endeavouros.com/what-to-expect-on-the-first-release/|title=What to expect on the first release|last=Bryanpwo|date=3 June 2019|website=Endeavour OS|quote=As you know Cnchi has caused serious problems to be working outside the Antergos eco system and it needs a complete rewrite to work.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726030453/https://endeavouros.com/what-to-expect-on-the-first-release/|archive-date=2019-07-26}} After the official launch of the distribution, the EndeavourOS team began to develop a Calamares net-installer, which was expected to release in November 2019,{{Cite web| url=https://endeavouros.com/news/net-installer-on-hold |last=Bryanpwo |title = Net-installer on hold |date = 1 November 2019}} but was delayed to December.{{Cite web |url=https://endeavouros.com/news/liftoff-for-the-net-installer |last=Bryanpwo |title = Liftoff for the net-installer! |date = 23 December 2019}} The net-installer offers multiple desktop environments, window managers, driver and firmware packages, and kernels during the installation process. The net-installer also allows the user to perform an offline install with the default KDE Plasma (Xfce was the former default) desktop themed with EndeavourOS branding.{{Cite web |url=https://calamares.io/about/ |title=About}}

EndeavourOS features a graphical installer, unlike the distribution it is based on, Arch Linux, where installation is typically performed manually through the command-line tool pacstrap. As such, EndeavourOS is typically marketed as a beginner-friendly alternative to Arch Linux. As the distribution is based on Arch Linux, it provides most upstream features as-is.

EndeavourOS provides access to the Arch User Repository (AUR), a collection of unofficial community-maintained source packages shipped by Arch Linux, by default through the yay package manager.{{Cite web|url=https://discovery.endeavouros.com/aur/yay-an-aur-helper-written-in-go/2021/03/|last=Bryanpwo|title=yay – an AUR Helper Written in Go|date=9 March 2021|website=Discovery}}

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