A vibrant and friendly community, our beating heart of the distro, to guide you through your journey.
A small and lightweight base with eight flavours to choose from
The EndeavourOS knowledge base, the place where you can find our wiki articles and video tutorials, is here as your guideline during your discovery in building your unique and personal system.
A two-step installation using the EndeavourOS ISO and a second step that uses Calamares to guide you through the first steps of installing the system with the option for an online installation with plenty of choices…
The online installation allows you to choose Xfce, Plasma, Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon, Budgie, LxQt, LxDe and i3-wm, but there’s more…
Sway, Qtile, BSPWM, Openbox and an EndeavourOS exclusive WM called Worm, created and maintained by a team of community members, are five more options on top of the Desktop environments ready for you to explore…
No matter which method, DE or WM you choose, they all have one thing in common, a basic installation with a modest but powerful selection of terminal-operated apps to start your deep dive into an Arch-based system. To highlight some of those…
| Firefox | A powerful free and open-source web browser |
| Pacman | A terminal-operated package manager for the Arch repositories |
| Yay | A terminal-operated AUR helper that installs packages from the Arch User Repository with ease |
| FirewallD | A secure basic firewall using the default public zone running by default |
| Pipewire | A new low-level multimedia framework. It aims to offer capture and playback for both audio and video with minimal latency and support for PulseAudio, JACK, ALSA and GStreamer-based applications. |
Our Welcome app will guide you to information needed for your first steps into the system and also provides you with some handy tools you will be able to use even beyond your initial set-up…
Are you ready to start your own endeavour with us? Click on the image on the right to discover and download our latest release.
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.
Just like NASA’s Artemis mission will be to go back to the moon and also lay the foundation for the future (Mars) missions, EndeavourOS’ Artemis release is laying the foundation for the future of EndeavourOS Read more…
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…