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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm going to be building a new computer soon for myself. (Going AMD for the first time, since intel microcode issue.)

I would say I'm an expert or advanced user, as been using pcs for 25 years and set up arch and slackware in the past. I have tried many distros and would like some feedback.

I mainly use my pc for gaming. I want something customizable, KDE ish, and without bloatware. A good wiki is a plus.

I think that i may end up with arch... is it better for gaming since it's bleeding edge and isn't steamos built off it?

Side question is distro chooser accurate?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

EndeavourOS, Simply Arch with an installer, has KDE as an option for DE.

I use it, I love it. Arch is great. E-OS just cuts out the first few hours/days of set up.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lol that's on my current rig. It's not bad, but I feel if that I'll end up back on arch instead of having the endeavouros overlay.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As I said, to avoid bloat, why run an os over an os? Endeavouros has its update but there's also an arch update. I don't need hand holding for the install and that's one of the benefits of Endeavouros, at least that's my understanding.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It is not a OS over an OS just some packages that are preinstalled

EndeavourOS has its own packages ( https://github.com/endeavouros-team/PKGBUILDS ), but they are mostly driver stuff and some presets for the different desktop environments. Rest is all from arch, arch extra, arch extra multilib(32bit) and AUR.

And yea, you understand it right, if you don’t want help managing arch, it is not for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

EOS is about 24 additional packages on top of the 70,000 Arch already offers, many of which are already on the AUR ( like yay and paru ). EOS uses the real Arch kernel. Once installed, EOS is Arch in my view.

There are not “two updates”. It is not an OS over an OS. EOS is awesome but it is a glorified Arch installer with opinionated defaults.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Endeavour is really good

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Endeavour is great but it's not simply Arch with an installer. Quite a few things are configured differently under the hood.