EndeavourOS 2024.06 i3

About EndeavourOS

EndeavourOS exists to make Arch Linux reachable without diluting it. A graphical Calamares installer handles partitioning and setup, offering an offline Xfce desktop or an online mode that installs GNOME, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, MATE, Budgie, or several tiling window managers. What lands on disk stays close to vanilla Arch: the standard repositories, rolling updates through pacman, and an AUR helper included from the first boot. The project describes itself as terminal-centric, and its unusually friendly forum has become a defining feature, filling the support role that raw Arch leaves to documentation alone. EndeavourOS grew out of the community around the discontinued Antergos distribution and inherited its goal of a welcoming on-ramp. It suits people who want real Arch with the sharp edges of installation filed down. In an OpenFactory browser VM you can inspect the result before committing a machine to it.

What happens when you press Try now

The button opens the OpenFactory console in a new tab and boots a fresh EndeavourOS virtual machine from OpenFactory's verified source media. The session renders directly in the browser, so there is nothing to download and nothing to install on your computer.

Each visit gets its own machine with a fresh overlay over an immutable base image. Files, settings, and desktop changes behave normally inside the session and are discarded when it ends, so every visitor starts from the same clean EndeavourOS 2024.06 i3.

How i3 behaves in a browser VM

i3 is a keyboard-driven tiling window manager for X11. It trades icons and docks for fast, scriptable window layouts defined in a plain text config.

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