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for me it was very unreliable, I have an i7 7th gen hp envy from I think 2018 and I dual booted Windows and linux for more than a year now jumping distros every now and again just to get to know them better.
I first started with zorin OS and it was good, snappy, long battery life, stable I then tried popOS! and it was even better, I loved it until a few months in I started getting sudden crashes for some reason so I installed endeavourOS as it seems to be very popular and everyone was recommending it, but I immediately after installation started getting crashes every 30 or so minutes which was weird as no other OS linux or windows did that so it didn't seem hardware related I'm now using linux mint and it's wonderful so far
TLDR I daily drove half a dozen OSs and the only one that gave me trouble from the beginning was endeavourOS, which is weird because it feels like I'm the only one...
You're not alone.
I probably have the same Envy as you. It is just an unreliable piece of shit. Open it up and see if it is full of little metal chips, which is how HP "deburrs" the holes on the bottom metal plate.
opened it up a few times mostly to fix the frickin hinge and I didn't see anything wrong visually, and I doubt it's that because the problem only exists on endeavorOS
now that I think about it I think it's the only arch based distro I installed on my laptop and that was a big reason why I tried to use it, it might be an arch problem with my stupid HP
I had the opposite experience. I have been using EndeavourOS on my desktop since November, zero issues. This weekend I've been distro hopping on my old MacBook pro and almost every distro had a problem. Some didn't boot, other had wifi issues, trackpad issues, keyboard volume keys not working, high CPU usage... EndeavourOS was the only one I tried that just worked out of the box with no issues
that's what I hear everyone say, which makes my experience with it all the more weird... I'll just blame HP