I made a post a few days ago asking your opinion on Manjaro and it was very mixed, with a slightly negative overall opinion. I heard some recommend EndeavourOS instead and did some online research and it seems to be pretty solid and not have the repository problem that Manjaro has.
Just for context I am a Linux noob and have only used Mint for about the past six months. While I don’t have any major complaints, I am looking to explore more distros and the Arch repository with its rolling releases. I am not a huge fan of how certain packages on apt are a few years old and outdated. However, I also don’t have the time to be always configuring my OS and just want something that works well out of the box.
Is EndeavourOS a solid choice?
It’s a great distro but if you want to have more solid experience you could consider do these things
1- install LTS kernel alongside the normal one (especially if you use nvidia) because who knows what would happen in newer bleeding edge kernels .
2- some people like to use timeshift (I don’t use it personally but it’s recommended) and it’s better to make btrfs disk .
3- don’t use aur unless if there is a package that you can’t get by official repos .
Other than that I feel like it’s pretty stable distro and fast but please you have to consider doing these recommendations (from my personal experience)
I hope you enjoy your arch (endeavour os) experience .