EndeavourOS emerged to collect the witness of Antergos, one of the most interesting Arch Linux derivatives that existed. Although technically it did not provide anything revolutionary compared to its mother distribution, Antergos had the advantage of offering a fully pre-cooked system for use on the desktop, which in addition to saving time when configuring it, allowed the rough universe of Arch Linux to be brought closer user profiles.
With just under a year of experience, EndeavourOS is gradually taking shape, or at least that hints at the latest versions of its installation images. According to project managers, previous versions of ISO images “could not boot on systems equipped with a new dedicated NVIDIA graphics card. This version comes with the option to start the ISO with the open-source drivers or the proprietary one of NVIDIA. The last option is only for NVIDIA's new dedicated graphics, legacy cards, and Optimus hybrid system (Intel + NVIDIA) users. ” As we have already said on many occasions, NVIDIA goes free, especially when it comes to passing through the crusher the existing standard graphic stack for GNU/Linux.
Like many other distributions, including the popular Manjaro and Debian for live images, EndeavourOS uses Squid as the installer. In the installation images of April 2020, they have improved the aesthetics to offer their own finish and better adjusted to the image of the system. "Not only has the main color been changed from purple to blue, but a general cleanup has also been done and little details added in the installer to give it a unique EndeavorourOS signature."
From now on the installer launches a terminal window in the background for the user to be informed of the progress of the installation, encryption support has been added using LUKS and the performance of Calamares has been improved (version 3.2.20), but GParted continues to be offered as a backup partitioner in case the installer fails to do its job.
EndeavourOS uses GitHub as a mirror, but thanks to the cooperation Apix can finally have their own mirror that will be the one used by default, although at the moment they will keep that of GitHub because the infrastructure that the distribution has is too little.
The desktop environments offered by EndeavourOS will be installed with the default theme instead of a custom one made by the distribution managers, although the offline installer with XFCE will continue to have the custom theme for those who liked it.
Other things that can be highlighted are that the welcome application now supports several languages, GRUB has been corrected to better support various operating systems, including support for VMware, the experience offered by the own applications of the distribution and the inclusion of Linux 5.6.3 as the default kernel.
EndeavourOS can be downloaded from the download section of the official website of the project and all the details about the images from April 2020 can be found in the corresponding entry in the news section.
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