{"id":224656,"date":"2026-03-17T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/endeavoros-titan-stands-out-among-arch-based-linux-distros-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:10:09","slug":"endeavoros-titan-stands-out-among-arch-based-linux-distros-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/endeavoros-titan-stands-out-among-arch-based-linux-distros-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"EndeavorOS Titan stands out among Arch-based Linux distros &#8211; here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/endeavoros-titan\/\">EndeavorOS Titan stands out among Arch-based Linux distros &#8211; here&#8217;s why<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/endeavoros-titan\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/endeavoros-titan\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-17 12:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Jack Wallen\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET:\u00a0<span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span>\u00a0on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>EndeavorOS Titan adds some extra polish to the distro.<\/li>\n<li>This Arch-based distribution is easy to use and fast.<\/li>\n<li>Titan includes a command-line tool for managing GPU drivers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been following EndeavorOS for a while now. You can read my reviews of Gemini and Ganymede to confirm that I&#8217;ve found this distribution to be a true gem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Based on Arch Linux, EndeavorOS is a rolling release distro with some particular features that make it stand out among other similar distributions based on Arch.<\/p>\n<p>Before I get into those features, let&#8217;s talk about what&#8217;s new with Titan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0Ready for a Linux laptop? I found one that competes with my MacBook Pro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First, you get new versions of important apps, such as Calamares 26.03.1.3-1, Firefox 148.0-1, Linux kernel 6.19.arch1-1, Mesa 1:26.0.1-2, Xorg-server 21.1.21-1, and Nvidia-utils 590.48.01-4.<\/p>\n<p>Take note that the inclusion of Xorg means EndeavorOS has yet to make the switch to Wayland.<\/p>\n<p>On top of those refreshed apps, you get a streamlined installation process that includes improved mirror support, better hardware detection for GPUs and VMs, additional drivers for all GPUs (including Vulkan drivers and the necessary packages for hardware-accelerated video decoding), GPU driver early loading by default, and a brand new tool, called eos-hwtool.<\/p>\n<p>The eos-hwtool makes it easier to add or remove GPU drivers whenever needed. If you run the command eos-hwtool, it will list the GPU drivers currently installed. You can view the recommended GPU profile with the command:<\/p>\n<p>eos-hwtool &#8211;recommended<\/p>\n<p>You can list all profiles valid for your devices with:<\/p>\n<p>eos-hwtool &#8211;list<\/p>\n<p>You can then install or repair the current profile with:<\/p>\n<p>eos-hwtool &#8211;install-recommend<\/p>\n<p>This new addition is a powerful tool for those who need to better manage their GPUs for the likes of gaming and AI.<\/p>\n<h2>The welcome tool<\/h2>\n<p>The EndeavorOS Welcome tool isn&#8217;t new, but I just wanted to point out how helpful it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/endeavoros-titan\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EndeavorOS Titan stands out among Arch-based Linux distros &#8211; here&#8217;s why https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/endeavoros-titan\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-17&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/268dab37ac60fa1059766336c60ba299e467d189\/2026\/03\/17\/147597f0-a5a0-48e2-898b-bf3e1b08b4c3\/endeavortitanhero.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,71],"class_list":["post-224656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224658,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224656\/revisions\/224658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}