Endeavour vs Manjaro

Is there anybody whose had experience with both?

I'm trying to decide if I want to go back to Manjaro or get into Endeavour.

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As someone who tried both, I think Endevour is better. 1.It's more bleeding edge. 2. It's as close to vanilla Arch as you can get with a gui installer. 3. The dev team seems to be more compitent then the Manjaro team (i.e: shit doesn't break because someone pushed a WIP package). 4. Better community support (I mean, it's literally just Arch with a fancy installer).
They're both fairly easy to install. And it's fairly easy to switch between the two.
- It's really not that hard to follow the wiki to install Arch. I feel like there's a lot of maintaining to do when using Arch, so you might as well get used to the terminal. It wasn't really an issue when I was using it daily, but has become a chore now that I boot up my laptop once or twice a month.
  Funnily enough, I'm always on my Steam Deck now and that is based on Arch, too.
  
  You have to remember that most people aren't power users. A lot of people find if difficult to even install Windows. Vanilla Arch isn't for everybody.
  
  Honestly, in that case, I can't recommend Arch to those users. Nothing wrong with Ubuntu for beginners and there's so much documentation.
  
  Is it? I thought SteamOS was based on Debian
  
  Since SteamOS 3 it's based on Arch
  
  I did not know that. Thanks!
  
  @slampisko Also with the next big update of SteamOS to 3.5 they will even integrate Nix package system officially! That means you can install packages in a persistent manner (not just Flatpaks).
  
  There’s a years old Debian-based version available for download, but the version that ships on Steam Deck is significantly different and based on Arch.
- Yeah, I’ve used Linux in some capacity since the late nineties and know my way around. I can’t be bothered to fiddle with an Arch install, I’ve moved on, I got better things to do. So I decided to try out EOS on my new laptop. A few clicks and it was running with proprietary NV drivers by default, which are updated as needed by yay. I was playing games within 20 min from my Steam Library preserved on another ssd.
  Only thing I had to do was install btrfs-assistant, plasma-Wayland and whatever apps I need.
  The most laborious bit was configuring various apps to use Wayland but that didn’t have to happen immediately.

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