Nico198X

yes. appreciate that fact and enjoy your day.

doesn’t bother me, i get what you’re saying.

i suppose, it’s a loose analogy he brought up, so i was just trying to speak his language.

the point is, the packages are different, particularly core ones. so it is not straight Arch.

It’s not really arch. It’s more like Ubuntu is to Debian.

EndeavourOS is straight arch repos, with one additional optional repo of their own with a few of their tools, branding, etc.

Cachy is opinionated about the OS.

EndeavourOS is only opinionated about the install setup. Arch with sane defaults.

no. it is akin to Manjaro in that it is based on Arch repos, but is opinionated. they have their own kernel, wine, proton, with their patches.