Why not recommend Manjaro then? The benefits of Arch without all the drawbacks.
For beginners it’s probably best to give them an OS they can actually use and then have them find out stuff. Starting off with a troubleshooting experience before being able to use the OS is rather demotivating.
Manjaro is a potential time bomb, delayed repos and AUR don’t always interact well. EndeavourOS is the better Arch fork, especially for beginners that need a smooth introduction.
Last time I installed EndeavourOS I had to connect to the wifi through the terminal. That’s a surefire way to get a beginner to stop installing right there so I would not recommend it.
My very first distro was Manjaro actually - I tried it twice but there would always be some graphics related issue I would encounter that I couldn’t troubleshoot as a beginner (even though I’d spend a week looking for a solution on forums), and I’d move back to Windows. Finally getting the courage to try out Arch which was considered the “big scary meme distro” was what made me stay with Linux.
The biggest thing for me was that I actually knew what was installed on my system and what the function most of the major programs served (things like xorg, multilib graphics drivers, pipewire/pulseaudio, desktop environments/window managers), so whenever I encountered an issue or wanted to customize something, I would sort of know where to start looking.
Of course, all this depends on the person - not all power users are the same. For me, arch worked best but someone else might gravitate towards fedora, debian or whatever else and their way of doing things.
Why not recommend Manjaro then? The benefits of Arch without all the drawbacks.
For beginners it’s probably best to give them an OS they can actually use and then have them find out stuff. Starting off with a troubleshooting experience before being able to use the OS is rather demotivating.
Manjaro is a potential time bomb, delayed repos and AUR don’t always interact well. EndeavourOS is the better Arch fork, especially for beginners that need a smooth introduction.
Last time I installed EndeavourOS I had to connect to the wifi through the terminal. That’s a surefire way to get a beginner to stop installing right there so I would not recommend it.
My very first distro was Manjaro actually - I tried it twice but there would always be some graphics related issue I would encounter that I couldn’t troubleshoot as a beginner (even though I’d spend a week looking for a solution on forums), and I’d move back to Windows. Finally getting the courage to try out Arch which was considered the “big scary meme distro” was what made me stay with Linux.
The biggest thing for me was that I actually knew what was installed on my system and what the function most of the major programs served (things like xorg, multilib graphics drivers, pipewire/pulseaudio, desktop environments/window managers), so whenever I encountered an issue or wanted to customize something, I would sort of know where to start looking.
Of course, all this depends on the person - not all power users are the same. For me, arch worked best but someone else might gravitate towards fedora, debian or whatever else and their way of doing things.