Top Five Arch-Based Linux Distros 2022

[@marlonlom]

00:01:56 > (5° Spot) Artix 00:06:52 > (4° Spot) EndeavourOs 00:09:16 > (3° Spot) Garuda Linux 00:13:04 > (2° Spot) ArcoLinux 00:18:00 > (1° Spot) Manjaro 00:22:02 > Honorable mentions: Introduction 00:22:42 > Honorable mention: ArchCraft 00:23:57 > Honorable mention: Mabox Linux 00:24:11 > Final thoughts 00:24:22 > Credits

[@garthok6224]

Thanks good man

[@TheLukemcdaniel]

@DistroTube don't just like it, copy it to the description so that the chapters get setup /in/ the video.

[@edrelaquino7041]

@@TheLukemcdaniel it's pinned already

[@enricosevenfoldism]

is it just me or else, but manjaro is the most unstable of those five list. i prefer put endeavour #1 but it just my personal referrence

[@LimDul]

@@enricosevenfoldism How can Manjaro be the most unstable when all the listed Distros literally use the same Arch repos with Manjaro even going through the extra "testing" stage? I believe this "Manjaro is unstable" myth stems from the fact that it's the Arch distro that has been in the spotlight for the longest and its reputation comes from a comparison with other non-rolling Distros.

[@fecklesstech929]

I've been on EndeavourOS Cinnamon for 13 months. It's so stable & reliable it's boring. Nothing weird ever happens. I trust it so much I even use it professionally (online teaching). It also stopped my distro hopping which is a little bit sad. Great video, thx.

[@akshittyagi6482]

100% agree

[@norgeball3971]

Same here, kinda miss the old distro hopping days, somehow, but Endeavour is just too good to leave it again

[@donnieb390]

ENDOS has been so solid for me. Manjaro gave me many issues so I never went back to it

[@darren537]

On 6 machines not one hitch

[@wojtekmalinski5181]

Over a year on endeavouros. Migrated from Manjaro and never looked back.

[@QS1597]

Switched to ArchCraft because I'm too lazy to rice, and I'm absolutely loving it

[@mj-lc9db]

lol mee too

[@BlindRambler]

Switched from, because I learned to rice xD. Though I do plan to reinstall as soon as I get a new machine. I'll be putting it in the old machine. It really is a nice distro but I wish it would have different ISO's because I like bspwm but I don't want a 2nd WM.

[@b2c205]

Lol me too (2)

[@muhammadadeel5209]

Same Here ☺️

[@JstJaybeingJay]

@@muhammadadeel5209 I can't get it to install... I'm having errors...

[@StrikerEureka85]

EndeavourOS is hands-down my fav Arch-based distro. it's the closest thing to vanilla Arch while making installation much easier and the EOS community is very helpful and welcoming. I also like how Mabox is able to run on older machines. I know DT loves Arco and might give it a try eventually.

The Chaotic AUR is just a binary repo built from the regular AUR. It's not a separate AUR. Very cool project. I recommend everyone checking it out to see if you like it.

[@minepro1206]

@@originalxboxlove7005 That's just an AUR helper.

[@zhongxina728]

@@originalxboxlove7005 bruh

[@bologna3048]

more like DANGER-AUR lol

[@zhongxina728]

@@bologna3048 lame

[@groos3449]

DT, the Chaotic-AUR is not a separate AUR, it's a script that automatically compiles popular AUR packages (with a few exclusions like software that is needed for the Garuda project) so you don't have to compile it yourself

[@andreasbaumann6943]

..and with this inherently dangerous, because you never know what kind of easter eggs you get precompiled. :-)

[@groos3449]

@@andreasbaumann6943 Definitely haha

[@bologna3048]

why would somebody do that? lol the AUR is already something you lightly use at all because it's not always in lockstep with the official repos lol

[@crashniels]

@@groos3449 Yeah but you get the bonus of doing everything via pacman. Also not everyone has the machines or the time to compile after every little update.

[@groos3449]

@@crashniels That's why I use it, I have a shitty CPU so everything takes ages to compile, this repo saved a lot of my time

[@somnion5094]

I appreciate the honesty here, while some of us have moved on from Manjaro, we can all agree that it has done for Arch what Ubuntu did for Debian. Reliable and friendly. A good starting point.

[@alejandromunoz3862]

Endeavour OS has worked the best of all for me out of the box. Even manjaro give me some tiny problems that eOS did not. Also comes with the minimal software necessary but everything just works, even a wacom tablet.

[@AgentTex13]

I jumped from Manjaro to EndeavorOS and it feels nice seeing your skills grow, the more you use Arch Based Distros

[@6500s1]

Switched to Manjaro XFCE last year, in March, still rock solid and stable for regular, simple use. Zero crashes on a pretty old laptop, very huge difference in comparison to daily blue screens of death. One of the best decisions I could have ever make, after so many years of windows, this is just beyond good and even unimaginable.

[@emdadgar_official]

artix or manjaro ? i want to go on a arch based one .

[@Adam-yf2ux]

Awesome. Glad to hear there is one more Linux user. (And one less Windows user)

[@SC-yy4sw]

same

[@user-he4ef9br7z]

@@emdadgar_official Depends. Manjaro is more stable and is less vanilla. Artix is more bleeding edge, and more vanilla. Not to mention it's anti soystemd.

[@MrJueKa]

I`m using Windows on my private machines since 2008, currently Win10 since its release, without any issues and without any "blue" screens or other annoying things like that, and other Windows users I know also have no such problems either ... I´ve no idea what some do with Windows so that the system crashes

[@HaroldCrews]

EndeavourOS running Plasma is on my primary desktop. It's been running without any major problems for nearly 18 months. I've tried to run Manjaro in the past, but it would break after only a month or two.

[@walking_on_earth]

Same here!

[@donnieb390]

Same here ! ENDOS has been so solid for so long and Manjaro gave me multiple issues it really turned me off.

[@connyslayer4661]

I see then. I'm a Manjaro user and I would love to try Endeavour OS. Manjaro is great but it can have several or few issued here and there. Trying something similar but also different with smooth performance is very interesting to me.

[@justanotherpxrson]

That happened to me recently. I was back on windows for a while now but I crave linux again. I think I'm about to start distro hopping because pop!_os and Lubuntu that I used on laptops seriously made me question if arch based distros work for me.

[@jamesclow108]

So far I've tried Manjaro, Garuda and EndevourOS, all using KDE. I've found all three to be fantastic Arch based distro's. I'm currently using EndevourOS as it seems to have a bit of a stability edge for me on my setup, but I must confess I did install PAMAC straight away lol.

[@kanishcktewatia597]

i'm new and it looks like if the DE and WM are same, the distros are very similar. What separates the distros given that DE and WM are the same?

[@plznostep98]

@@kanishcktewatia597 manjaro has different repos - basically it has the same packages, but you get them a few days later compared to arch. This way they can be tested for stability and you hopefully have less problems to fix yourself

[@SaxaphoneMan42]

@@kanishcktewatia597 basically when they get updates and some default configs/programs/repos, that's the majority of the difference.

[@emeukal7683]

It's the same packages. I doubt that any of tie has any edge. I tried all mentioned too and Manjaro has the most going for it. Endeavour has nice community edition for bspwm for example that i borrow on my x220 tho, great distribution. I don't see why anybody is using pamac though, takes so much time..same goes for all of the gui installers.

[@user-stanrbm]

I back to Manjaro after EndeavourOS. Because EndeavourOS breaks CoreCtrl after update.

[@bpomp22]

As a gamer I can honestly say that Garuda KDE version has been great. It had everything I needed and the install was so smooth. I actually like the fact that I was able to choose what I wanted to install. Plus I just love the design of and feel of it. I haven't distro hopped since finding this one.

[@CaptainApathetic]

KDE Plasma 5 is great, distros should consider it as the default DE (Ubuntu especially)

[@supertrooper6011]

i tried the dragonized version - I did like it but I would get odd crashes which I never really got to the bottom of (limited attempts)... I also found it a little bit much out of the box for my taste, latte dock just gets in my way and i don't need my windows acting like jelly, nothing you cant easily change though.

[@klittlet]

Tried garuda kde, bswm and qtile. Kde was lagging, bspwm was ok-ish and qtile was broken and lagging.

[@s.sradon9782]

You're lucky you got it to install.

[@rickygarza2005]

gamer in linux lmao

[@mattbosley3531]

I tried a number of different distros on my main system, including Endeavor, and I ended up with Manjaro. I found that it gave me the best combination of features that I wanted. And I was able to connect my printer and scanner wirelessly on Manjaro where I had difficulty doing it in Endeavor. Didn't try Arco or Garuda, though. I'll have to try those some time in the future.

[@martinMZ72]

I'm running Garuda for two months now and I'm very happy with it. Very well thought distro with useful tweaks under the hood.

[@iamaj7]

I am using it as my daily driver since July last year. So far so good!

[@SJ-eu7em]

Same here

[@salaheddinehouache1015]

Can you tell me plz, what do u do for video downloading ? Especially from KZbin... 👍 Thanks

[@iamaj7]

@@salaheddinehouache1015 x t r e m e download manager PS - KZbin keep deleting my comment, hence the unnecessary spaces.

[@-._.-._.-._]

There's actually a weekly iso for Artix

[@terminallyonline5296]

11:12 The Chaotic AUR is the AUR except with prebuilt binaries instead of needing to build the packages. You enable it by adding it to your standard repos (common, extra, community, multilib, etc).

[@Vorthas]

Been using Manjaro for going on 3 years now and I'm quite pleased with it. I've considered switching to EndeavourOS for a closer to Arch distro but I don't want to be hassled distrohopping due to how many things I got installed and configured.

[@nekilik5925]

I switched to and its working more stable without KDE bugs like on Manjaro

[@emdadgar_official]

i want to avoid lag and memory usage on ubuntu ... and a good package manager small and fast ... manjaro using systemd ?

[@connyslayer4661]

I very much relate to you when it comes to that situation. I do love Manjaro however I don't mind trying different OSs. I have been using Manjaro for a pretty great time and I have been having a great time with it with some few issues here and there. I wouldn't mind trying Endeavour OS however , it seems very helpful, smooth and interesting.

[@durantburner7428]

Artix has weekly iso's, which are just below the list you showed. It's in development, and I guess there just hasn't been a "stable" iso, or they just haven't approved it or something. But don't be fooled, it's getting developed constantly.

[@Neffins]

@BlackWorm Can you not read? *Weekly*

[@nabildanial00]

the weekly isos are buggy as heck. they consistently throws out errors during live installation the last time i tried it which is not too long ago (kde version). that being said, the stable iso is fine to use. sure, the first update pulls all kinds of packages but they work just fine afterwards. ive been using artix openrc for a few months now, it is rock solid, stable and extremely fast.

[@logiconabstractions6596]

Fully agree with Manjaro. I made the switch from a dual os Mint/Ubuntu 2 years ago and never looked back. I kept Mint around as a fallback for 6 months, and then just realized I never actually used it. Pretty stable, issues generallly find some community support that's clear & effective. Using xfce. For really the first 6 months, I didn't really even configured much of anything, it was good enough out of the box. Then with time got fancy and there's lots of things you can do to customize as with any arch distro I guess.

[@SenorRossi70]

@logicOnAbstractions: same with me - I tried different Arch-based distros, but I`m always falling back on Manjaro ! I started Linux with Ubuntu - then to Linux Mint (which I still love !). Now I have Manjaro with Cinnamon DE on my main PC and Linux Mint MATE on my second weaker little office-PC...

[@0x007A]

You can update Artix Linux as soon as it is installed to get the latest version of the software / applications. I have never experienced any issues installing Artix Linux though I start with a minimal ISO.

[@groos3449]

Artix provides weekly ISOs, so there are more recent releases than the 6 months old ISOs. If this is the only reason you didn't rank it higher you should at least clarify that in the description

[@Vlad-1986]

He needs to notice it first tho :D

[@DonLuisSalcedo]

The official download page have a timestamp ---> 2021-07-25 15:11:50 that looks like more than a week.

[@groos3449]

@@DonLuisSalcedo The weekly ISO has been updated today, the one that you mentioned is the "stable" one

[@brvcncr]

Been daily driving Garuda for a few weeks now and loving it. It’s nice that they have a quick setup for new users to make Arch easy to dip their toes into without worrying about being overwhelmed.

[@Cocacola2103]

I have been using Manjaro Plasma for 2 months now and it might have been daunting at first to get used to it but thanks to the community it became easy in 1-2 weeks

[@acrodrigues1]

I just want to point out that Artix weekly isos build every Sunday and that section is located a little bit lower in that page.

[@cilian8462]

I would call myself pretty new to linux (using for not more than 3 months). I was using arch for a month, broke it and installed manjaro and I'm satisfed with it. It has great defaults that look good and it's comfortable to use and also has arch's advantages

[@spectraeden9144]

Artix is great...they have a weekly iso, unfortunately they do not make it obvious on the download page so most people will just grab the old iso's.

[@96tobia]

People that install Linux without paying attention to all download page, I'm afraid DT doesn't read carefully, and made a video on it :(

[@kdemetter]

@@96tobia Problem is, their installation manual doesn' t mention where to get the ISO's. It just says "It is possible to install any init system (openrc, runit, s6, suite66 or dinit) from any ISO." If they had just put a link there to the downloads it would be clear. And while they have a link to it in the menu, it's called "ISO releases" under "Development" . If they just called it "Download Artix Linux" and put it under "Documentation", it would make more sense. That being said, ArcoLinux has an even worse website. It makes me physically ill to search for what I need there.

[@gincoba]

Hello to you all. At present seems that Artix released new ISOs on the 23rd of January… fresh updates :)

[@BjornsTIR]

I use Artix as a daily driver not because I hate systemd, but because I tried it out, liked it and everything I need works on it. I also like the challenge of learning something else than systemd and because I believe competition in every niche, including init systems, accelerates progress. I definitely agree about the age of the ISO. (Also, to be fair, they also have their own repos, so the init isn't the only difference)

[@LimDul]

A word about Artix: As a super casual Linux dual-booter I am completely neutral about the init systems but I chose to install Artix OpenRC XFCE on an 11 year old netbook with an Intel Atom processor as a compromise of looks and performance after trying like 20+ (sometimes supposedly) lightweight distros. Protest distro or not aside, Artix is probably the closest to vanilla Arch out there - even closer than EndeavourOS - BUT offering Calamares and preconfigured DEs. The base image of Artix (without DE) is even LIGHTER than base Arch (around 290 packages vs around 370). With XFCE it is super light compared to anything apart from configuring the DE from scratch, using 275MB RAM and under 1% CPU on a massively underpowered and old machine. If you want something light, yet easily installable, give Artix a try. P.S. Using Manjaro on my main computer, so I'm not a fanboy or something. ;)

[@thenextpoetician6328]

Arco would benefit from some restructuring and consolidating of ISOs, and consequently, the websites. The paradox of choice is not to be messed with without consequences. When a strength is also a weakness, what's the point?

[@warnaoh]

Yeah and also it tries to be educational but the site is so badly organized I just don't see it. I feel like it's just becoming a stable arch Linux with a lot of configured DEs/WMs.

[@shauryakalia3296]

Very nice ranking. I think manjaro is best beginner distro at least at present. The team did make blunders some years back, but now it has been quite good, and they have been trying a lot of new things

[@xavhow]

Manjaro was my first Arch distro, then I moved to EndeavourOS and never looked back. It just hits my spot. The community is great also!

[@BUDA20]

Calam-Arch for me, is just *plain* arch with a graphical installer and defaults that make sense, that let you choose DE, just that, but I agree on Artix being great and Manjaro a gateway to Arch since is maybe the easiest and more user friendly of them all thanks to pamac, but I prefer calam-arch and do my own thing, I like use paru (instead of yay) as aur helper (with color and inverted listing so the best results are at the bottom)

[@chrinaldi]

How is it compared to the archinstall script? Used Manjaro before and had I remained oblivious to the drama surrounding the team (treasury shenanigans, AFAIK), I'd be still using the distro as my daily driver. Used both yay and paru before, I don't install too many AUR packages anyways to notice the difference between those two.

[@raiguard]

I used Arch Linux GUI to install, but then I learned about archinstall so I won't have to use that again. But if you want to have vanilla arch with a very lightly configured desktop environment, then I highly recommend it. As for me, I installed the i3 version, and then stripped that out and replaced it with Qtile.

[@bologna3048]

I've still have yet to see an install script set up btrfs properly so I really never touch them. No idea why that doesn't get more focus

[@Parendinate]

Arch Linux is the last stop for me. I'll use it till I die. Its not only about rice actually, using arch feels like building your own distro.(Well actually it is) Why would I use a distro if i can build my own? I always have an energy for it. I mean facing problems is not problem for me, i can always search and learn and improve my own distro. :D

[@distant6606]

definitely arco for me, amazing capabilities, tools, support, etc.etc.

[@Zinnaca]

Manjaro user now, Arch user before. Reason being that i need to dual-boot to windows and installing Arch linux for dual-boot is a nightmare stuff. Manjaro just is so much safer to install alongside Windows. Plus Manjaro is so polished that it is fun to use.

[@denizkendirci]

ArcolinuxB-Dwm became my go-to lately. It's definitely my favorite.

[@vince6792]

This vid sums why you're #1 in my opinion. This was a fantastic knowledgeable brief summation of Arch distros. As an individual, your character shines. Why? You admitted to being a little too harsh on a particular distro which is great for the entire Linux community. Unlike one particular KZbinr who not criticized - bashed Manjaro. This was disrespectful, disgraceful, and unacceptable. I think this individual forgot we are community of ideas freely shared with millions around the world through hard work, dedication, long hours, and a commitment to principles by countless individuals. I rant this to contrast your appreciated approach and wonderful gift you have been to the Linux family.

[@NeerajKumar-yv2rz]

Believe me I have distro hopped atleast 50 times now (way more than that) and let me say Garuda Linux (dragonized) is the most appealing less maintenance extraordinary experience and out of the box pre configured beautiful theme is my no 1 choice of anyone who want to use arch Linux .(period)

[@isaacdiaz5793]

I really love Garuda, they also provide great support at their forum

[@ILsupereroe67]

You said you edit your videos on Linux? What video editing software do you use?

[@xellaz]

I've tried quite a few Linux distros and Manjaro KDE Plasma feels the easiest to switch to coming from Windows... and after a while, I even luv it more than Windows. It not only look better but it's also very customizable without even using the terminal and stable. If you mess up, Timeshift & btrfs can save you from reformatting. I like the rolling release update format to keep my system up to date while not worrying of forced restarts like Windows when it updates. 👍

[@scotthiland5521]

I agree. I tried mint and Ubuntu and just wasn't for me. Manjaro just felt good and I haven't really ran into many issues for the last year and half. I have KDE on both my 15 year old laptop and my recently rebuilt desktop (dual booted with win10) Manjaro has a lot of good resources for help. With that said I find the manjaro community a bit distasteful. Especially when your new to Linux all together.

[@Soraviel]

I 100 percent agree, I'm one of them. It's slick & smooth, also accomodating to new users too

[@therealslimaddy]

I have finally settled with regolith Linux it’s going strong for few months now, it has been quite the distro hop journey for me

[@autonaut279]

choose an arch based distro

[@therealslimaddy]

@@autonaut279 I was a endeavour os gnome user before and always wanted to move to a preconfigured window manager distro. I have a liking toward gnome settings, configuration and the way it feels .Regolith is fulfilling my requirements at the moment.

[@mataznuiz]

Artix has weekly ISOs if you scroll down a little bit. I use it because I just like their Cinnamon configuration.

[@waydegutman7339]

I actually use Garuda and Manjaro on my 2009 Mac Pro (separate hard drives) and like them both. Manjaro in my opinion is more mature and it runs all the softwares that I use day to day. Garuda sometimes “break” an application, but not too often. I might try ArcoLinux Linux, especially leftwm, again someday. Good video.

[@DefCantGame]

When in cyber security i mainly used Arch, gentoo, and linux mint. Have a dual pc setup that each have separate linux ssds in them for testing but been going back between running Manjaro(currently on the laptop) or saying screw it and maining arch on this 5 year old laptop as a web dev use. Have gotten comfortable with KDE plasma, sweet theme, and bismuth tiling. Would you say still worth taking the dive and just maining arch on all machines?

[@BlindRambler]

I'm running Vanilla, but I did come back to Linux with Archcraft and I am glad that I did.

[@gkukull]

When you gonna play the recorder again bigman?

[@DistroTube]

I play the recorder all the time. ;)

[@Viperbird17]

In the distro hop phase myself. Manjaro is my favorite so far, just recently tried endeavor too, it's nice but haven't gotten to mess with it much just yet.

[@digiver]

Once you get hang of Manjaro, try endeavouros, both offer different experience. I am using both.

[@gwgux]

Neat, always good to see what other folks have done using Arch as a base. Some of these I'm not too familiar with so it was good to see a spotlight on them. Hope you do a top five for Ubuntu based distros someday!

[@barriewood9336]

Good to see Mabox Linux get an honourable mention. No better Openbox offering. No better full featured lightweight OS. And, I say this as someone not typically a WM or Arch based Linux user.

[@Kod4x]

is nice to see garuda here, beautiful themes, a lot of convenient tools out of the box and the hability to personalize everything in the enviroment from the initial point.

[@cyncred]

Just sad it didn't top the list

[@hjackson.92]

I've been using Artix for about four years and have been impressed. I'm using it as part of a very large project to document the migration and update of an old Gentoo installation to a new machine. The fact that it can use OpenRC means I have a shorter learning curve. I could've used a Gentoo-based distro for this, but my free time has been quite limited for a while. . . and Calculate Linux has been a bit of a problem for me in particular. . . By the way, I have noticed some mainline distros were hostile toward non-systemd init systems a few years ago, so I have avoided those and only plan to use those that give users a choice in init systems, or ones without systemd.

[@Danielddiniz]

Fantastic featuring Arch based distros to the crowd! You rock DT!

[@MiguelRodriguez-ng9wc]

12:30 Wayland is not as ready as x11 of course, but I'm having more than a good time with it on sway, not major problems or not many that cannot be worked around haha, you should give it a try at any time. Nice vid BTW.

[@dpmguimaraes]

I love Artix. Been using for about a year now with S6. Fantastic distro. I've tried archo and I get lots of problems. Manjaro is what got me to drop windows entirely.

[@pupperemeritus9189]

Also something to mention about arch updates is not everything is updated fast. Things like python on which hundreds if not thousands of packages depend upon being a compatible version are delayed until most packages that need python and other such packages add support

[@costascostas1760]

I first installed linux in 1996/97 and destroyed my windows installation. I do not even remember if there were any distros back then, and it was up to me to decide what desktop environment and window manager to use, what software to install from a whole list etc, then login in a command line, and start my desktop with startx. I think I need to try arch to get back to the roots :) Or stick to my Linux Mint cause I have other things to do than distrohop. Oh well... choices choices

[@Steerable6827]

thank you so much for not putting endeavor or garuda over manjaro!

[@miikasuominen3845]

Been using Garuda as a secondary OS beside Windows, like over a year. Been working good and I'm impressed. Have Manjaro on my older laptop.

[@tylerdean980]

Why would the install fail if you're using an old ISO? When you pacstrap it grabs the packages from the mirrors, not installs from the ISO, right? Or do these versions that include a desktop install the desktop and Xorg from the flash drive?

[@tuxidoyt]

ArchCraft and Arco has Single Developers. ArchCraft Creator is Aditya Shakya. Arco Creator is Eric Dubois ( YT ).

[@zoltan1953]

Just wanna jump down here and point out that Acro also has an option to build your own iso, and of course Eric Dubois created a video showing exactly how to do that. So if for whatever reason the official website doesn't have any suitable isos for you, you can build your own, and Eric will show you how.

[@jonass1285]

When this video dropped I was busy configuring Manjaro - not everything was clear to me at start (it's my first consequent try of daily driving a Linux distro, I hopped around quite frequently before), but now I got everything up and running. And I'm stunned by how much easier Linux is than Windows once everything is set up!

[@ticsee1]

EndeavourOS is a great find, I am impressed, not looking for fancy look but functionality and stability. Coming from Manjaro which used for 4 years, but started to have problems with it, and find EndeavourOS. My root partition is almost half size now.

[@illuminach8279]

this channel is amazing! so much informative and so straightforward

[@real1cytv]

I've used Garuda for a while and I've had a lot of problems with it. Be that audio, window manager crashing, random slowdowns, etc. which I didn't have on other distros. However I really REALLY love the shell and have started to use it everywhere.

[@Ryan-ct3rv]

Garuda really helped me make the leap to using Linux full time. I had been duel booting various distros with windows because I could never get gaming working satisfactorily with my level of knowledge. Garuda made it so simple to just start playing games with minimal tinkering. As a noob the out-of-the-box snapshots saved my ass many times. On other distros I would Bork my install then distro-hop, now I just restore to the last working snapshot with ease.

[@Thomas-rl8kw]

I then moved to arch and i love it. Every arch distro beyond vanilla arch is just another man's arch.

[@edbeckerich3737]

I was introduced to Arch through Salient Linux several years ago, it's set up for Proton gaming, and I loved it and am still running it..

[@umittaylan1485]

Hey DT, you have a missing about "rolling release" comment. Firstly, there's weekly ISOs and mirrorlist (Probably you wanna do minimal installation and if you don't wanna download new ISOs). Artix is up to date always.

[@kmemz]

I genuinely *cannot* comprehend how you rate both Garuda and Arco above Endeavour. I've had massive issues with Garuda's DE stability, with all their customizations. Arco's website is extremely confusing, the details about the different versions of the ISO are confusing, and the installer is very, very broken, only installing a few of the packages I select, and installing loads of bloat I didn't. Manjaro, I can understand taking a lead over Endeavour from a usability prespective, though the Manjaro release model leaves something to be desired for stability. As a footnote that has nothing to do with my criticism of your ranking, Chaotic-AUR is not another AUR as you described it; It is a repository of precompiled versions of AUR packages. I particularly like to use it to grab ungoogled-chromium without leaving my conputer to build it for a few hours, saves me a ton of time and processing power.

[@autonaut279]

endeavour is kinda meh

[@kmemz]

@@autonaut279 That's why it's good; it's not trying to be insanely flashy, or include everything under the sun, you install it, and it just works. Minimal bloat, decent options, stable, and almost entirely as convenient to use as Manjaro if you bother to install pamac-aur, without the release model issues Manjaro has.

[@Dlaba1973]

Well said Mr. DT! Indeed Manjaro takes the crown! Once I started using it. It became my rehab for Distro-hoping!!!

[@MysticMylesZ]

If it's the first thing that starts why is it called PID1? Why not PID0?

[@DavorBalgavi]

I totally agree with this choice, Garda Linux is jut too sluggish on my machine, while Manjaro simply flies, regardless of the version, I have been using KDE Manjaro for a couple of months now and it definitely makes me so happy, thank you DT,

[@DirtPoorWargamer]

Garuda user here. Just wanted to note a couple of oddities with the distro. It was stated that the default shell is fish. This is only semi-true. When you open a terminal, you will be given a fish shell, but the shell environment variable is set to bash as far as I can tell. This means that any posix-compliant shell script should be able to run without issue, which wouldn’t normally be the case in a distro that defaulted to fish. Likewise, in the flagship Dr4gonized edition, there’s some weird stuff going on with kwin, x11 and wayland (at least from my perspective). I don’t understand how, but it appears both wayland and x11 are running at the same time. I think this is thanks to kwin, but I’ve been away from linux for about 7 years and a lot has changed; I’m still catching up.

[@DeirdreYoung1]

Watching this on Manjaro XFCE on my old Macbook Air 2013 :) I wiped my MacOS when the spying thing came out, and I never regretted it.

[@sofianey3490]

I completely agree with what you said about Arcolinux except that to me it should be #1 ! It helps you a lot with understanding the system you are on and configure it the way you want in an easy way. Eric Dubois is doing a fantastic job with it and his motto of "Choices, choices" is the very essence of arch and linux in general.

[@lukakerin1896]

Can confirm Manjaro i3. If you've been wanting to switch to WM, this is the absolute best way, because everything is already configured, and you can slowly start getting more comfortable with WMs, see the config files and learn from them, how they did it etc. and just fall in love with WMs. Once you get comfortable with WMs you will never use a DE again

[@aramisdnivra]

Seems like a lot of users move away from Manjaro at a certain point. Been distro hopping for the past 23 years, and the only distro that I have been able to keep for longer than a couple of years is EndeavourOS. I haven't had any issues with the rolling release and it's awesome for customisability.

[@MadmusicalHulk]

It took me a while to come to Linux from Unix. I used to use Solaris a lot and still now have OpenIndiana on an old pc somewhere in my attic. Now I’m running GhostBSD most of the time and BlackArch / Fedora on my other backup computers. I haven’t distro jumped for a while though, but when I did I went through Arcolinux, Opensuse, Pop OS, Mint, Arch, Rhel and Parrot. Good video. Keep up the great work 😉.

[@RHTORAS]

Hey DT it needs guts but would you show us the Obarun Linux ? It is archbased with wm's as you like. Thank me later!

[@kentjensen4504]

Do you have a commment on recent complainst that Majaro doesn't update their SSL and that they hold back releases of packages causing complications?

[@PaulMrPKcom]

Thanks for great videos as always. I run dual boot with Win10, KDE Neon and Majaro on my main PC (with nVidia ). Tried few others as well but Manjaro rules so far, love the latest software, no issueas with nVidia, Davici Resolve runs perfectly without any hassle. Tried Garuda when it was new, back than it was to buggy and it still is to "fancy", prefer cleaner look.

[@eneko4562]

I've been using Manjaro KDE for over a year and a half but I want to move to a TWM so I think I'll use ArcoLinux LeftWM, what do you think?

[@gamerking64]

My Top 5 Arch Linux Distros: 1.Arco Linux 2.Arco Linux 3.Arco Linux 4.Arco Linux 5.Arco Linux

[@---Ferran---]

Don't you forgot Arco Linux ?

[@mattb7406]

Switched from manjaro to endeavour. Partly cause zsh integrated so deeply. Good vid.

[@mhasadi78]

Dt, try some kde plasma's kwin scripts for tiling window management. Especially Krohnkite and Bismuth.

[@Kakihara73]

Thanks to share your list . I use endeavour about one year , and about 6 month, or more, at work :D ..i'm so proud to myself ^^

[@t1kt0k_gaming]

What happened to the supposed custom build you were going to build?

[@bigbusca]

Do you know BigLinux? It is based on Manjaro and has many interesting modifications

[@bardmoss]

Arco is the best Arch for coexisting with other distros, and runs great from grub no matter what distros controls grub on a multi-boot system.

[@ne90316]

I used to run mainline arch about a year ago.The core reason why i switched to artix was because there are a lot of power cuts in my area, and that causes systemd to startup and shut down really slowly even if I fix the problem which will return again when power cut happens again. Artix (at least the openRC version) doesn't have this issue.I don't know whether issue is fixed in systemd or not but I am just genuinely happy with artix as of right now (probably try out arch again when I will build my new rig).

[@andrewr7820]

> Power cuts -> Ummm, add a UPS?

[@kodydarkk]

i started using linux mint mate on new years and i planned to use it for a whole year till 2023 but this is making me want to switch over to arch

[@r.f.mineguy7715]

I'd' like to try out i3, and knowing that Manjaro has this I think my job finding a preconfigured system is done. DT did it for me. We all appreciate you man.

[@r.eugenelee9148]

I'm like you Derek...None better than Arco. Dennis and the team are heads above many Linux devs. They are brilliant in my opinion, I'm using the ArcoLinuxS-lts XFCE and am loving it. Oh and I love their Arco Tweek Tool. It's awesome.

[@theruq7171]

On the note of Artix iso releases...Doesn't Arch do the same thing for theirs? I thought they purposely updated their installer iso's seldomly.

[@ecw0647]

You might want to play around with MaBox Linux that I find to be very interesting and different but extremely customizable.

[@michaelcook5585]

I would have mentioned that MaBox Linux actually is Manjaro, just with a pre-configured OpenBox WM. I actually believe that's where the name comes from - Manjaro + OpenBox = MaBox. I am currently using MaBox and have also used Manjaro and can vouch for them being identical. The appeal of MaBox is the really nice default OpenBox configurations and the pre-configured tint2 panels, along with a range of interesting themes you can apply.

[@aviador7000]

Thanks for this great video. I'm also using Manjaro since version 18 on my desktop and notebook without any (serious) problems. It runs really stable. For exercising I also installed the original Arch Linux in several vms and physical, older notebook. The advantage aof this distro is, that you really installs only, what aou need. I've tried many ditros yet, Red Hat (before many years there olso was e free edition), fedora, suse, madrake, etc. But the best is really manjaro in my opinion.

[@sujeetkumarsinghmath]

hey dt, which arco project do u use, is it arcod or perhaps an iso u built