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Very nice explanation. One minor detail though:

Endeavour doesn’t market itself as stable

Endeavour OS is per normal Linux developer definition unstable.
But that doesn’t mean what some people think it means. It only means it’s not feature freezed because it’s a rolling distro.
It doesn’t mean that it has more bugs, it can in theory have more bug fixes than new bugs are added, because it runs on newer versions of software.

What it means is that some features may change, and that can cause problems in a production environment. So often professionals prefer stable, because features are frozen and do not change, which guarantees that production is not affected by changes that were not prepared for.

Many people believe stable means more reliable and fewer bugs, but that is not always the case. In my experience Arch derivatives are often more “reliable”, than a “stable” OS like Ubuntu.

I haven’t tried Endeavour, but I used the older Antergos that Endeavour replaces, and Antergos was amazing IMO.

One thing that makes a rolling release sometimes more reliable, is that it has newer drivers, and newer drivers often have bug fixes.
Especially for games newer drivers are less likely to lack features a game may need.

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sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I personally use EndeavourOS, and yeah, it’s great! I would never recommend it to a beginner starting out with Linux though, since being rolling release some things do occasionally break. It’s not often, but when it does, it can be annoying for a newbie. One example I can remember is when KDE Plasma stopped working around the time it was recently updated (for context, I am using a 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop. That probably had to do with the weird bug), but after a bug fix release it now seems to work fine. I’m fine with that since I like tinkering around with computers though. EndeavourOS also doesn’t come with a graphical app store either, but that’s for the better since installing AUR apps with very low friction is a bad idea (it’s one of the criticisms of Manjaro actually). All of this is fine, as EndeavourOS never claimed to be the most beginner-friendly distro in the first place. As per its site: it’s a minimal and terminal-centric Arch-based distribution. It knows what it is and that’s what I like about it :D

another detail, I said it doesn’t market itself as stable (which is true), not that it is inherently instable (which, as you described, is partially false). I do think that rolling release distros can be good if you know what you’re doing, but for a newcomer to Linux, it’s not my first choice. That would probably go to Mint, Fedora, or similar depending on their hardware.
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- Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Personally I prefer rolling releases, because apart from being generally more up to date having all the newest features, I also like to generally only have to fix 1 problem at a time. Where a dist-upgrade for a non rolling release sometimes have more problems at once.
  I feel like I have fewer problems on average with rolling releases.
  
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  - sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Fair enough, the great thing about Linux is that there are options out there for everyone’s tastes and preferences! I also run EndeavourOS and love it very much :D
    
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