[deleted] I would give the EndeavourOS VM another try honestly. I used EndeavourOS in Gnome Boxes for a couple weeks to become familiar and comfortable with it. And while yes EndeavourOS is ideally meant to use the terminal, you can use it however you like also and just so you know there is a GUI program called Pamac that you can install that is essentially like the Software Center in Solus. Pamac is GUI for pacman to install/remove/search packages. I have it installed as well and use it from time to time for simple installs and updates. But for most things I try to use the terminal, and I'm by no means an expert, (I'm simply learning little by little) I just use about maybe a dozen terminal commands and that's it. If you give the VM another go, to install Pamac is simple:
yay -S pamac-aur
yay is an AUR helper (still actively maintained btw) written in GO that helps you install packages from the AUR, -S is the command to install a package and pamac-aur is the package to install. There are a few other packages, like pamac-aur-git andpamac-all-git, but for most users I'd say go with pamac-aur
Now to get Pamac working as intended in an Arch-based distro like EndeavourOS (it was created by the Manjaro Devs btw), you do have to install one other package the EndeavourOS team maintains so the main screen in Pamac shows the app list correctly. Just install the package called archlinux-appstream-data-pamac:
yay -S archlinux-appstream-data-pamac
The above command may ask you to remove a file that is similar to this one. That is okay and you want to remove it. So once you do those two simple commands, you have yourself a working GUI software center like application that allows you to install, remove, search, and update your system. Just know that even though EndeavourOS is ideally terminal based, many (I would argue most) have Pamac installed on their systems as their preferred method. Hope that helps and good luck in the VMs!
