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A small and lightweight base with eight flavours to choose from
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Ever wondered how much power can come from an ARM device that is small, lightweight and consumes less power than a regular computer? EndeavourOS ARM provides you with a way to explore that power that is hiding in your ARM device with that EndeavourOS feel and philosophy you’re used from us.
Eight Desktop Environments and six Window Managers ready to explore the possibilities of ARM
In our three-stage installation process, you will be able to install a system that is lightweight and close to Arch Linux with the EndeavourOS conveniences like Firefox, the AUR helper Yay and our in-house developed apps out of the box. During the last stage of the installation, you are able to choose from Eight Desktop Environments and six Window Managers ready to explore the possibilities of ARM, or none if you want to use your device as a home server. The environments to choose from are Xfce, LXqt, LXDE, Mate, Cinnamon, Gnome, Budgie, Plasma, i3-wm and the community editions OpenBox, Qtile, Sway, BSPWM and Worm…
Tested or untested hardware, either way, we invite you to collaborate and bring the future today.
ARM devices are known for their low usage of power, which makes them ideal for mobile devices. This is the main reason why smartphones and tablets are running on these chips but low power consumption is also a big plus whilst running your home server or NAS. Either way, computing on a small footprint is the way to the future.
Now, before you rush off to install the system on your device, there are hardware requirements to run a Desktop Environment as smooth as possible.
The rules of thumb are:
1) The device must be supported by Archlinux ARM
2) A Quad CPU with 1.5 GHz and at least 2GB of RAM
3) Two USB 3.0 ports for external drives and possibly additional USB 2 ports for keyboard, mouse, etc.
4) A 1 Gbit ethernet connector
Other than the first specification, having less than the above specifications does not rule out that an install wouldn’t work. A 10/100 Mbit ethernet or only USB 2 ports would only mean that performance could be affected on certain operations.
We provide you with an easy install procedure by an automated script for hardware that was available for testing and a selection of some popular hardware devices that weren’t available for us during development with an easy to follow manual to install EndeavourOS ARM.
If your device isn’t on our list and its specs are meeting the hardware recommendations, you can simply follow the base install instructions for your device on Archlinuxarm.org and proceed with the EndeavourOS install stage.
We are looking forward to welcoming you on this journey and joining us to explore the world of ARM and no matter if it’s on tested or untested hardware, either way, we invite you to collaborate and bring the future today.
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A highly customizable and lightweight Desktop Environment with a traditional touch and feel.
A lightweight Desktop Environment that supports newer technologies with a traditional Desktop.
Cinnamon is a Linux desktop environment reminiscent of GNOME 2 that offers flexibility and speed.
Is a modern and customizable Desktop Environment that lets you get things done.
Plasma is made to stay out of the way as it helps you get things done. But under its light and intuitive surface, it’s a powerhouse. So you’re free to choose ways of usage right as you need them and when you need them.
A Desktop Environment, you can mix modernity and traditions. Based on a classical display and an all-in-one settings bar for music, video and more.
A very lightweight, component-based Desktop Environment.
This is an ideal choice for older hardware with limited resources.
LXQt is a lightweight Qt desktop environment that will not get in your way, so it will not hang or slow down your system. It is focused on being a classic desktop with a modern look and feel.
i3-wm is a lightweight Window Manager that operates exclusively with the keyboard. Our version has a simple and easy configuration with LXappearance to handle GTK themes. We do ship the configuration with an easy (and clickable) cheat sheet to get you started. Due to its light resources it really has a small footprint.
a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree.
This community edition provides an easy jumpstart to explore this exciting keyboard driven alternative.
Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras.
This community edition is providing you a quick and easy start, ready to explore.
Openbox is a simple, flexible and lightweight Window Manager with a minimalistic appearence.
This community edition provides you a simple, but elegantly themed environment, ready to use.
A full featured, tiling window manager written and configured in Python.
Our community edition gives you an elegant kickstart to explore it.
Worm is a lightweight Window Manager written in Nim. It has support for floating and tiling mode and support for window decorations in any desired layout.
In the wake of our Apollo release for x86-64 systems, we proudly present our refreshed EndeavourOS ARM automated installation script. The improvements of this script are focused on the Raspberry PI 4 64-bit since upstream Read more…
With the help from the community, especially our community members Shjim and Luis Lucas (Lxnauta), our main ARM developer Pudge was able to realise a very exciting update to our ARM install script. It was Read more…
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