When comparing Chakra vs Endless OS - Educational Edition, the Slant community recommends Chakra for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux distributions for desktops?” Chakra is ranked 77th while Endless OS - Educational Edition is ranked 91st. The most important reason people chose Chakra is:
comes with none GTK apps per default
Specs
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Pros
Pro Focuses on KDE/Qt Apps
comes with none GTK apps per default
Pro Independent from Arch
its not just another Arch Spin-off
Pro Keeps Gnome apps tidier even than Gnome distros
Pro Coding Games for Adults or Kids
Some games require you to think quickly so you will build up valuable skills for your workplace.
Pro Offline or Online Use
Don't have an internet connection? That's fine, the OS works just fine without it, but you will need one to keep the system up to date.
Pro Great OS for a public Library or in a classroom as an alternativeto traditional
For countries that struggle with educational budgets, this is an all-in-one OS for you in every classroom
Pro Stay Focused with Games or training
Too much work makes us dull, sometimes we want to play a coding game. Train our minds, learn something new, and program the next great app.
Cons
Con Weak base
Sometimes updates will not execute hooks(full update always misses to run mkinitcpio) so you get an unbootable system.
Con Small development team
The team is very small
Con No real installer
Has no installer just a big bloated LiveCD that gets unpacked to your disk.
Con Pacman
Compared to deb or rpm it takes ages to update the system, it's also very dumb in dependency tracking.
Con Unreliable Servers
The CCR or the community forums are often down or unreachable.
Con Overwrites your default EFI config
It overwrites your default EFI config wich can make you PC unbootable if something goes wrong.
Con Uses systemd
Which is very hard to debug and not a *nix standard.
Con Only available for x86-based CPUs
Con Wont let you install the system to USB drives
Chakras weak installer Calamares does not allow you to install it to a USB drive.
Con Weak update process to a recent release
For example, you can install the Goedel Release and update it to the current release which then fails to boot due to some systemd-errors.
