Been using Linux for some time, don't need instructions on how to install Arch, but it was still a very enjoyable video and ended up watching it till the end. Very good explanation and dead simple to follow, one of the best tutorials for a first time Arch user.
@@slimkid0225 you never know what tidbits you might pick up. Also, I watched in part because I'm evaluating which videos to share with someone else who I know is in the process of selecting a distro, and so, this is research for me for helping them. So yeah, I'm in the same boat as Luka... Then again, I'm also kinda considering giving Arch a try now, so there's that, as well. :D
I bought a Thinkpad this Thanksgiving break to finally start my Linux journey (jumping straight into Arch), and I’m so glad I found your videos at this time!! I’m learning so much, and your explanations are so easy to follow! Subbed!
Okay, that last command is "nmtui." I couldn't figure that out for the life of me but searching got me what I needed. I need to do a better job paying attention to what you typed too... it's ..."wheel,users" *not* "wheels" and not with a "." After having screwed this up but continuing with GRUB configuration, I was able to boot as root and then use "usermod" to correct it. I had some hiccups but this was by far the easiest guide for installing Arch I've seen. I started watching part 2 this morning.
Just such a nice tutorial, especially about the part regarding the Linux file system. When I firstly stepped into Linux 3 years ago, it takes me months to understand how the file system works, how terminal works. I am pretty dumb to figure out things, even a simple cd, mkdir command took me many days to figure out what are they and what they do. If you are watching this video as a newbie, DO NOT get frustrated, you will eventually get there if you watch this type of tutorial repeatedly and practice it yourself. First time it took 2 months for me to install Arch manually, second time it took me 1 whole day, the third time it took me 20 minutes, now I can speed run it in a few minutes lol.
I’m new to Linux and running different distros via VM to see what I’ll switch to when windows 10 finally kicks the bucket. Your explanation for each step gave me a much better understanding of why I was doing each step compared to when I followed the manual. Thank you for taking the time to create and post this. I’ve learned a tremendous amount from it and look forward to future videos.
thank you, great step-by-step guide, with tips and tricks along the way. look forward to the next! Fossil evidence shows that penguins evolved before the dinosaurs died out, and there are remains of giant, people-sized, prehistoric penguins.
Just want to say a big thank you for your two videos on this subject, been using Arch for a couple of weeks and cheated by using the archinstall script but thanks to you I've successfully installed it without the script and got it working exactly how I want it. I did a few things differently to you in that I set it up as an EFI system, I am using swap on zram rather than a disk partition, I've enabled periodic TRIM because I'm running SSDs and I've set up my desktop to run on Wayland. Largely due to the HDR support that isn't there in X11. I also enabled the CachyOS repos so I can get access to their recompilations of Arch packages that make user of newer instruction sets, as well as their kernel which is a big performance boost over vanilla Linux or even Zen. Very happy Arch (btw) user here.
i've watched like 20 arch install guide claiming to be for beginners and this is the first one that is actually helpful. you tell us exactly what each command is doing and how to figure something out if we don't know. thank you for the helpful video 😁😁
I’m a newbie to Linux. I have try to follow other RUclips install guides with no luck. I wish I had found your video first. Awesome Arch installation tutorial as it cover all the steps that the other RUclipss left out. Very helpful 😊
Great video, thank you for this. I've been using Linux exclusively for a few months now, but that is mostly with Ubuntu or Mint, and I am just starting to play with Arch on an old laptop to learn more. The guide was perfect, so easy to follow, and the explanations helped a lot on some things I wasn't sure of. Just one small point, I'm not sure if I missed something in the guide, but when following along using an EFI system partition, I got an error when setting up GRUB using the command grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB 'grub-install: error: efibootmgr: not found arch install' I had to install the efibootmgr through pacman then it worked fine. Again, I may have missed it, and just wanted to say in case anyone else ran in to the same issue. Subscribed and will be following and watching more, thanks again
No problem and thank you for watching and subscribing! I'm glad my guide was able to help out :) You're completely right that for an EFI install it's necessary to install efibootmgr from pacman before setting up GRUB - I'll edit the description to make note. Thank you for pointing that out!
Thanks for such a comprehensive and clear guide. Getting ready to install Arch on my new PC (which I'm building!) and this made me feel good about diving in. Also cheers to your music selection. Tim Hecker is fantastic!
Thank you so much for the explanation! I have never used Linux and have almost no experience with the command window, so this was very useful to understand how thinks works and not just blindly copy paste commands without knowing its purpose or how they work.
Great video and perfect pacing imo. Thank you very much for the detailed info. One thing I noticed was your encode tanked when you scroll a few lines through docs on the browser, like around 44:23. If you turn off scroll animations that won't happen during your screen recordings. Looking forward to watching your other videos as well. Thanks again!
I think you would do an excellent job making a video on how to set Arch Linux up for gaming. Show people how to install things like bottles since you have to do a little more to get that working, other dependencies to DL etc. I know there's videos out there that run through a lot of things but they don't help you understand things the way you do. And that makes you special because you have the natural ability to teach, thats a gift Also, i think most new people mess up because they try to update so much making it less stable
Thanks for the suggestion! I was planning on making vids both about wine and about VMs, but it might make sense to bundle it all into an Arch-for-gaming vid :)
Arch Linux is simply brilliant. I use RichARCH btw. With it I was able to get Arch Linux up and running simply and quickly with kickstart like automation features.
Regarding the dual-boot setup on UEFI system in the description: I disagree with not creating new ESP partition. Many people say that system shouldn't have more than 1 ESP because of UEFI specifications, but in practice I didn't find any people (including myself) which had problem with having more than 1 ESP. Having multiple ESPs for every OS is in my opinion more clear and easier to look at (especially if you label them). But the biggest thing is that when you dual-boot Windows with some Linux distribution, Windows can (and probably sooner or later will) nuke Linux bootloaders. You can find many people on the internet which experienced such a bullshit.
Hey, great video, im about half way through, just a simple point of criticism, try and keep the terminal where you type the commands a little higher because the youtube scrollbar at the bottom tends to cover it and seeing what you type is a pain at that point, having to wait for it to disappear.
Hey there thanks so much for watching! Tim Hecker's work is great, definitely among my favorites. I do have timestamps in the desc, sadly youtube does not allow the chapters feature to new channels (I'll unlock that eventually), here's a copy of those timestamps: 0:00 What are we doing today? 1:23 Why Arch? 5:37 Flashing the Arch ISO 9:40 Booting the live environment, checking system type, basic configuration 22:23 Partitioning your disks 33:48 Installing essential packages and chrooting into the system 37:50 Final configuration and bootloader installation 47:25 Arch is installed! Hope that helps you out
Follow-up video for setting up your new Arch Linux installation, picking up right where we left off - ruclips.net/video/-puvglgx6Qs/видео.html Timestamps: 0:00 What are we doing today? 1:23 Why Arch? 5:37 Flashing the Arch ISO 9:40 Booting the live environment, checking system type, basic configuration 22:23 Partitioning your disks 33:48 Installing essential packages and chrooting into the system 37:50 Final configuration and bootloader installation 47:25 Arch is installed!
Thank you very much for the video, really good explanation! For a notebook I prefer to have full disk encryption. In case it got stolen while travelling, nobody has access to my data. I would love to see a video about an Arch install with FDE.
Just followed this to install on a VM, I want to back up all the stuff I have in Windows before I do baremetal, but I refuse to use Windows anymore unless it's for work. Thank you for the tutorial! Can't wait to bork my OS, but at least I'll get something out of it and still control it.
Great tutorial, thanks! I was trying to install arch on macbook air 2011 with broadcom wifi card, after failures with mint,debian,ubuntu.. and the installation hanged, I think the live system hanged while booting.. I was lucky with endeavouos (not sure what they do but their stuff works for me), offline installation and an external usb-wifi adapter, but the system was still freezing until I switched to linux-lts kernel, no freezes since...
I'm using a custom ffmpeg script (with dmenu to launch), obs is pretty excessive for my purposes and it uses more resources, leading to more lag while recording
good video. couple things i noticed. the disk you are using had a gpt partition table and you want to use a "bios" install? you should have made it mbr/msdos disk. also really no need for that 2mb "bios" partition. you dont need a partition like that for a bios install, only for uefi. your grub-install command installed the code to the mbr before the first partition. that's why you use /dev/sda in the install command and not /dev/sda1. but maybe since you made this a gpt disk you needed to do it that way?? also, why even continue to use the "bios" method anymore these days? does you laptop not support uefi boot?
For a BIOS install, it's not strictly necessary, but it's good practice and GRUB prefers it. For a UEFI install, a separate EFI partition is needed with the ESP flag.
Sure! On the machine you're installing on, set a password with the passwd command. Then you can just ssh in normally, or as the Archwiki suggests: ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null root@ip.address.of.target
Noted thanks for mentioning! I generally get them on stock photo sites, /wg/, or just browsing through artists' catalogues. I've started putting the source in the description for future vids :)
why didnt I see this when I was setting up my arch recently? Especially the part about using UEFI was fucking me up, because I couldnt quite figure it out myself that I had to install efibootmgr on top of grub and was confused why grub-install wasnt working.
the funny thing i like is how people use swap on linux, they added a version of this on android and everyone tells you to turn it off its bad, haha. i just laugh cause i understand what its used for.
warning for noobs: using "dd" command is incredibly dangeorus . if you type the wrong letter in /dev/sdX it will wipe the entire drive. be eextra careful. for this reason i would suggest using a gui tool where this isnt possible (i like kde image writer)
That's why Manjaro exists, for anyone who doesn't find the process of installing Arch enjoyable and interesting. Glad you have a distro that works for you! :)
Having the need to make a nearly 50 minute tutorial on how to use Linux, and yet, with Windows I learnt it in about 10 minutes (if that,) puts me more and more off Linux. Plus the fact that I have almost nothing on my PC that I use that works under Linux. I am too old to be learning another operating system. I was alive before even DOS 1 was a thing, so I have gone through all my share of learning (though DOS was a thousand times easier to use than Linux.) Yes I have tried multiple versions of Linux (Red Hat, Fedora, Mint. Unbuntu, Xubuntu, etc.) and all of them have one massive flaw for me, THEY ARE NOT EASY TO USE! The CLI is a nightmare and, in 2024 should not need to be a thing. Get me a Linux distro that can 100% be used without the CLI and I will give it another try. But, apart from that Windows is my perfect operating system.
That's understandable - from the point of view you're sharing, I agree. Arch, in particular, is meant for people who want to DIY every aspect of their system, so of course it will involve significant time in the shell. Arguably Linux as a whole is DIY - it requires learning. It's just a question of whether you want to learn something new in exchange for the differences and benefits it offers (& if those benefits matter to you), or not. If Windows is perfect for you, I'd be the last person to tell you to switch :-)
@BreadOnPenguins Yes, horses for courses I guess. For fun I am learning BBC basic and ZX Spectrum basic for no other reason than something to do and for nostalgia. But I am taking it very slowly. I don't need to learn anything anymore to be beneficial for me. I am very lucky that that ship has long sailed. But I do wish you good luck with Arch. I hope I didn't sound facetious. It wasn't my intention.
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I think this is the best, most enjoyable, informative, Arch installation I have seen so far.
Been using Linux for some time, don't need instructions on how to install Arch, but it was still a very enjoyable video and ended up watching it till the end. Very good explanation and dead simple to follow, one of the best tutorials for a first time Arch user.
Hello, thanks so much for watching and commenting! Glad to hear.
Then why watch 😂
@@slimkid0225 you never know what tidbits you might pick up. Also, I watched in part because I'm evaluating which videos to share with someone else who I know is in the process of selecting a distro, and so, this is research for me for helping them. So yeah, I'm in the same boat as Luka... Then again, I'm also kinda considering giving Arch a try now, so there's that, as well. :D
probably one of the enjoyable and easy to follow video on arch installation. just a friendly video without being condescending
Thanks so much! :)
Being an arch expert, I watched your video anyway. It was a great content which I wish I could have watched when I started Linux. Thanks.
I bought a Thinkpad this Thanksgiving break to finally start my Linux journey (jumping straight into Arch), and I’m so glad I found your videos at this time!! I’m learning so much, and your explanations are so easy to follow! Subbed!
Awesome, hope you enjoy the journey! Glad to hear - thanks so much :-)
Okay, that last command is "nmtui." I couldn't figure that out for the life of me but searching got me what I needed.
I need to do a better job paying attention to what you typed too... it's ..."wheel,users" *not* "wheels" and not with a "." After having screwed this up but continuing with GRUB configuration, I was able to boot as root and then use "usermod" to correct it.
I had some hiccups but this was by far the easiest guide for installing Arch I've seen. I started watching part 2 this morning.
This video is pure GOLD. Thank you
Awesome - you're welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting
Wow, this tutorial is amazing! I don't even plan to install arch any time soon, but watching this video was so enjoyable, thank you!
Haha thanks, glad to hear! :-)
Been using Arch Linux for little over 2 months now. Still new to Linux. Wish i watched this vid when i first switched over from Windows. Subscribed :D
Welcome to Linux :-) Glad you're still on the quest of learning more even though you've had it installed!
Thank you!
Just such a nice tutorial, especially about the part regarding the Linux file system. When I firstly stepped into Linux 3 years ago, it takes me months to understand how the file system works, how terminal works. I am pretty dumb to figure out things, even a simple cd, mkdir command took me many days to figure out what are they and what they do. If you are watching this video as a newbie, DO NOT get frustrated, you will eventually get there if you watch this type of tutorial repeatedly and practice it yourself. First time it took 2 months for me to install Arch manually, second time it took me 1 whole day, the third time it took me 20 minutes, now I can speed run it in a few minutes lol.
I’m new to Linux and running different distros via VM to see what I’ll switch to when windows 10 finally kicks the bucket. Your explanation for each step gave me a much better understanding of why I was doing each step compared to when I followed the manual. Thank you for taking the time to create and post this. I’ve learned a tremendous amount from it and look forward to future videos.
I'm really glad to hear that this video was helpful! Welcome to Linux and good luck on the journey :)
thank you, great step-by-step guide, with tips and tricks along the way. look forward to the next! Fossil evidence shows that penguins evolved before the dinosaurs died out, and there are remains of giant, people-sized, prehistoric penguins.
No problem, and thanks for watching! That's quite cool, I remember reading about that - prehistoric species never cease to amaze
This is such a good tutorial. I was thinking of trying out arch linux!
It was such a helpful roadmap for installing Arch Linux. I really appreciate it.
Glad to hear - no problem!
Just want to say a big thank you for your two videos on this subject, been using Arch for a couple of weeks and cheated by using the archinstall script but thanks to you I've successfully installed it without the script and got it working exactly how I want it. I did a few things differently to you in that I set it up as an EFI system, I am using swap on zram rather than a disk partition, I've enabled periodic TRIM because I'm running SSDs and I've set up my desktop to run on Wayland. Largely due to the HDR support that isn't there in X11. I also enabled the CachyOS repos so I can get access to their recompilations of Arch packages that make user of newer instruction sets, as well as their kernel which is a big performance boost over vanilla Linux or even Zen. Very happy Arch (btw) user here.
Video so good I may actually try Arch btw. Thanks for creating!
Haha glad to hear! No problem
i've watched like 20 arch install guide claiming to be for beginners and this is the first one that is actually helpful. you tell us exactly what each command is doing and how to figure something out if we don't know. thank you for the helpful video 😁😁
I'm really glad to hear this helped you out! :) No problem
I’m a newbie to Linux. I have try to follow other RUclips install guides with no luck. I wish I had found your video first. Awesome Arch installation tutorial as it cover all the steps that the other RUclipss left out. Very helpful 😊
I'm glad this helped you out! :)
Me too! But 8 had no difficulty installing fedora. Tired of Microsoft antics. Never accepting that recall crap
Great video, thank you for this.
I've been using Linux exclusively for a few months now, but that is mostly with Ubuntu or Mint, and I am just starting to play with Arch on an old laptop to learn more.
The guide was perfect, so easy to follow, and the explanations helped a lot on some things I wasn't sure of.
Just one small point, I'm not sure if I missed something in the guide, but when following along using an EFI system partition, I got an error when setting up GRUB using the command grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB
'grub-install: error: efibootmgr: not found arch install'
I had to install the efibootmgr through pacman then it worked fine.
Again, I may have missed it, and just wanted to say in case anyone else ran in to the same issue.
Subscribed and will be following and watching more, thanks again
No problem and thank you for watching and subscribing! I'm glad my guide was able to help out :)
You're completely right that for an EFI install it's necessary to install efibootmgr from pacman before setting up GRUB - I'll edit the description to make note. Thank you for pointing that out!
Hey, just wanted to chime in to say i tried arch on an old computer using your guide and it worked first try and you were easy to follow along with.
That's awesome - glad it worked! Thanks :-)
Thanks for such a comprehensive and clear guide. Getting ready to install Arch on my new PC (which I'm building!) and this made me feel good about diving in. Also cheers to your music selection. Tim Hecker is fantastic!
No problem - have fun with the PC build and Arch install :-)
Cheers, indeed he is!
Thank you so much for the explanation! I have never used Linux and have almost no experience with the command window, so this was very useful to understand how thinks works and not just blindly copy paste commands without knowing its purpose or how they work.
You're welcome! I'm really glad this video helped you out. :)
Great video and perfect pacing imo. Thank you very much for the detailed info. One thing I noticed was your encode tanked when you scroll a few lines through docs on the browser, like around 44:23. If you turn off scroll animations that won't happen during your screen recordings. Looking forward to watching your other videos as well. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for watching, and no problem! Good to know - I was wondering about that after recording. I appreciate the info!
Great tutorial! Easy to follow for a noob like me
I think you would do an excellent job making a video on how to set Arch Linux up for gaming. Show people how to install things like bottles since you have to do a little more to get that working, other dependencies to DL etc. I know there's videos out there that run through a lot of things but they don't help you understand things the way you do. And that makes you special because you have the natural ability to teach, thats a gift
Also, i think most new people mess up because they try to update so much making it less stable
Thanks for the suggestion! I was planning on making vids both about wine and about VMs, but it might make sense to bundle it all into an Arch-for-gaming vid :)
Thank you so much for explaining the commands
No problem!
Arch Linux is simply brilliant. I use RichARCH btw. With it I was able to get Arch Linux up and running simply and quickly with kickstart like automation features.
That's cool, I hadn't heard of RichARCH - thanks for commenting!
Regarding the dual-boot setup on UEFI system in the description:
I disagree with not creating new ESP partition. Many people say that system shouldn't have more than 1 ESP because of UEFI specifications, but in practice I didn't find any people (including myself) which had problem with having more than 1 ESP.
Having multiple ESPs for every OS is in my opinion more clear and easier to look at (especially if you label them). But the biggest thing is that when you dual-boot Windows with some Linux distribution, Windows can (and probably sooner or later will) nuke Linux bootloaders. You can find many people on the internet which experienced such a bullshit.
Just stumbled on your videos and love your content. Keep it up!🙂
Thanks so much! Will do :)
Hey, great video, im about half way through, just a simple point of criticism, try and keep the terminal where you type the commands a little higher because the youtube scrollbar at the bottom tends to cover it and seeing what you type is a pain at that point, having to wait for it to disappear.
Thanks for letting me know!
Two things! 1) Fellow Tim Hecker enjoyer
Hey there thanks so much for watching! Tim Hecker's work is great, definitely among my favorites.
I do have timestamps in the desc, sadly youtube does not allow the chapters feature to new channels (I'll unlock that eventually), here's a copy of those timestamps:
0:00 What are we doing today?
1:23 Why Arch?
5:37 Flashing the Arch ISO
9:40 Booting the live environment, checking system type, basic configuration
22:23 Partitioning your disks
33:48 Installing essential packages and chrooting into the system
37:50 Final configuration and bootloader installation
47:25 Arch is installed!
Hope that helps you out
Follow-up video for setting up your new Arch Linux installation, picking up right where we left off - ruclips.net/video/-puvglgx6Qs/видео.html
Timestamps:
0:00 What are we doing today?
1:23 Why Arch?
5:37 Flashing the Arch ISO
9:40 Booting the live environment, checking system type, basic configuration
22:23 Partitioning your disks
33:48 Installing essential packages and chrooting into the system
37:50 Final configuration and bootloader installation
47:25 Arch is installed!
Nice comprehensive video! (but those MASSIVE screen gaps!)
Thanks so much! Yeah fair, lol
Great tutorial!
Thanks!
Thank you very much for the video, really good explanation! For a notebook I prefer to have full disk encryption. In case it got stolen while travelling, nobody has access to my data. I would love to see a video about an Arch install with FDE.
No problem! That's a good point - I'll make a video showing an install with encryption at some point! Thanks for suggesting :)
Just followed this to install on a VM, I want to back up all the stuff I have in Windows before I do baremetal, but I refuse to use Windows anymore unless it's for work. Thank you for the tutorial!
Can't wait to bork my OS, but at least I'll get something out of it and still control it.
Awesome, glad you were able to get a VM install working! Good choice to back up first, you can always dual-boot if needed. :)
Great tutorial, thanks! I was trying to install arch on macbook air 2011 with broadcom wifi card, after failures with mint,debian,ubuntu.. and the installation hanged, I think the live system hanged while booting.. I was lucky with endeavouos (not sure what they do but their stuff works for me), offline installation and an external usb-wifi adapter, but the system was still freezing until I switched to linux-lts kernel, no freezes since...
That's an interesting situation, especially if the lts kernel had something that fixed the issue. Glad you got it working eventually!
Omg I love Linux. I use Fedora btw. :)
Awesome! :-)
My first Linux distro was Arch Linux. Not because I'm smart - it was just in the Steam Deck right away 😅
Lol, fair enough!
Would you mind to go through the customization of your terminal ?
Sure! That's on the to-do list for vids. :)
Are you using obs for video recording or custom ffmpeg scripts to do that.
I'm using a custom ffmpeg script (with dmenu to launch), obs is pretty excessive for my purposes and it uses more resources, leading to more lag while recording
You are so cool! 😎
Thanks 😎
good video. couple things i noticed. the disk you are using had a gpt partition table and you want to use a "bios" install? you should have made it mbr/msdos disk. also really no need for that 2mb "bios" partition. you dont need a partition like that for a bios install, only for uefi. your grub-install command installed the code to the mbr before the first partition. that's why you use /dev/sda in the install command and not /dev/sda1. but maybe since you made this a gpt disk you needed to do it that way?? also, why even continue to use the "bios" method anymore these days? does you laptop not support uefi boot?
Do you prefer using archinstall program/script to install archlinux.
I've always installed manually and prefer that - it's a fun install process :^)
Is the tiny boot partition necessary? Couldn't we store the GRUB files in an actual directory named 'boot' in root?
For a BIOS install, it's not strictly necessary, but it's good practice and GRUB prefers it.
For a UEFI install, a separate EFI partition is needed with the ESP flag.
Could you explain how to configure SSH on installation? Thanks from Brazil xD
Sure!
On the machine you're installing on, set a password with the passwd command.
Then you can just ssh in normally, or as the Archwiki suggests: ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null root@ip.address.of.target
@@BreadOnPenguins Thank you xD
maybe turn off redshift when you record? also where do you get your backgrounds, I particularly liked the one with the friar
Noted thanks for mentioning! I generally get them on stock photo sites, /wg/, or just browsing through artists' catalogues. I've started putting the source in the description for future vids :)
why didnt I see this when I was setting up my arch recently? Especially the part about using UEFI was fucking me up, because I couldnt quite figure it out myself that I had to install efibootmgr on top of grub and was confused why grub-install wasnt working.
You are not a Chad you have to become a Chad to install arch Linux
Too bad, guess I can't use Arch anymore then 😔
i also commented 😎
i have never know i will find words beginner friendly and Arch side by side
haha lol im also installing it on a thinkpad from the dump omg xd
Haha good luck with the install! :-)
the funny thing i like is how people use swap on linux, they added a version of this on android and everyone tells you to turn it off its bad, haha. i just laugh cause i understand what its used for.
After all Android is based on Linux. Wonder why people think it's bad lol
If someone's new to Linux and doesn't know how to install Arch... they should probably steer clear and start with a different distro instead.
9.09k and climbing fast
I want to delete my Win10 & go with Arch.My procrastination is terrible.
Go for it, you won't regret it! If you need any Win10 applications for work, you can always use a VM or dual-boot.
warning for noobs: using "dd" command is incredibly dangeorus . if you type the wrong letter in /dev/sdX it will wipe the entire drive. be eextra careful. for this reason i would suggest using a gui tool where this isnt possible (i like kde image writer)
This is a fair point! They (jokingly) call it "disk destroyer" for a reason. Gparted is another GUI option as well.
Thanks for mentioning :)
After watching this video I am reassured that I will never install Arch. I am staying on Manjaro instead.
That's why Manjaro exists, for anyone who doesn't find the process of installing Arch enjoyable and interesting. Glad you have a distro that works for you! :)
@@BreadOnPenguins Or use the archinstall script. I've installed manually a few times but the script saves so much time. I liked the video though.
Having the need to make a nearly 50 minute tutorial on how to use Linux, and yet, with Windows I learnt it in about 10 minutes (if that,) puts me more and more off Linux. Plus the fact that I have almost nothing on my PC that I use that works under Linux. I am too old to be learning another operating system. I was alive before even DOS 1 was a thing, so I have gone through all my share of learning (though DOS was a thousand times easier to use than Linux.) Yes I have tried multiple versions of Linux (Red Hat, Fedora, Mint. Unbuntu, Xubuntu, etc.) and all of them have one massive flaw for me, THEY ARE NOT EASY TO USE! The CLI is a nightmare and, in 2024 should not need to be a thing. Get me a Linux distro that can 100% be used without the CLI and I will give it another try. But, apart from that Windows is my perfect operating system.
That's understandable - from the point of view you're sharing, I agree.
Arch, in particular, is meant for people who want to DIY every aspect of their system, so of course it will involve significant time in the shell. Arguably Linux as a whole is DIY - it requires learning.
It's just a question of whether you want to learn something new in exchange for the differences and benefits it offers (& if those benefits matter to you), or not.
If Windows is perfect for you, I'd be the last person to tell you to switch :-)
@BreadOnPenguins Yes, horses for courses I guess. For fun I am learning BBC basic and ZX Spectrum basic for no other reason than something to do and for nostalgia. But I am taking it very slowly. I don't need to learn anything anymore to be beneficial for me. I am very lucky that that ship has long sailed. But I do wish you good luck with Arch. I hope I didn't sound facetious. It wasn't my intention.
i need a computer to install linux? damn … 😂
😂😂
maybe next you can do a tutorial on how to install it on a waffle iron. in case someone hasn’t got a computer to spare.
can i get any socials? like discord or element or something?
would love to have a girlfriend who'll teach me to install linux and teach me to use it btw amazing video made me dream about having a girl like u
Wtf