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So I installed EndeavourOS ...
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As someone who used both, endeavourOS gives you a good idea what a system should look like, it's not extremely overdone.
I did switch to Arch, just because i think that i don't need quite as much.
If i would have only tried Arch i would have spent so much time figuring out what's possible and what i want.
There is a place for it, not everyone wants to take so much time figuring things out and that's fine by me.
I've used Linux in various ways since the nineties and know it intimately but I don't want to fiddle with an install. When I got my new laptop this year I appreciated being able to plug in an EndavourOS flash drive, click on a couple of things and then let it install a sane default with prop NV driver already setup while I made coffee. I was ready to play games from my old Steam lib SSD in 20 min.
I don't know if the Arch installer is like that but EOS is slick.