I enjoy your videos very much I must say! I am just fearful that if I install Arch it's like the final puzzle piece with fall into place.. The fault lines will shift like never before. The ground will shake. Mother Earth will cry out with a groan that hasn't been heard since Jesus' pet lizards escaped his terrarium. God WILL be furious. At y'all, not me. He's knows I'm just a toddler who found a loaded revolver lol
Some gripes with the archinstall part of the video: -Explaining what the different kernel types really are instead of meme-ing about it could be helpful -Skipping over the Profile option seems like a weird idea, since it will also handle installing required components for desktop environments automatically, such as a terminal emulator and display manager (gdm/sddm) and enable required services for stuff like polkit and dbus. If you don't pick a profile you often have to get those and configure them manually. -Telling people not to worry about Optional Repositories in the installer is also a bad idea since you absolutely need to enable multilib for any kind of gaming, it takes 1 second to enable in here, this just adds more fucking around with config files for no reason
May I ask you what multilib is? Anyway I second your gripes. I'm not 100% new to Linux and I only tried installing Arch with archinstall a couple times, so I watched this hoping to see some things I didn't know get explained... ...yet I feel he overcomplicated the process a bit. The two times I did try archinstall in a VM I installed GNOME immediately and when I reboot my computer I already saw the login window to boot into my desktop. What's the point of not installing it to then do it in chroot? It's a genuine question, since as I said I'm new to Arch and archinstall. Is there any benefit or it makes more sense to just install the DE from archinstall and be done with it? Any other steps that could be done better?
@@agoniavr multilib is the repo for 32-bit packages, like the 32-bit versions of your graphics libraries, which is 100% necessary for a lot of steam games. And yeah, you don't need to chroot into your install to setup a display manager, just use the archinstall desktop profiles with a display manager selected. If you want to setup your display manager on your own, just setup everything on your own and choose the "minimal" profile instead of a desktop profile. But as usual, using Arch as your first distro is not really recommended, as Arch is not optimized for the desktop by default, since it comes with whatever defaults its packages use. You will not have the best gaming performance out of the box. I remember I had a ton of issues with elden ring having terrible performance until I used the amd_pstate=passive kernel parameter to change my CPU frequency scaling driver, and then used the cpupower utility to manually set the freqency range I want and other settings. My fps went from an average of 45 to around 80. There's also general stability things like messing with the vm.swappiness values with sysctl. A lot of packages are also simply not configured for you by default on Arch, you literally always just get the factory defaults. For example, installing smb or ssh will not simply work, you have to configure the daemons yourself and then start them. The wiki is pretty good for that, but it's still a lot more work then simply installing the pre-configured package on something like Linux Mint. That's just how Arch works tho, the whole "just give me the thing and I'll do the rest myself" is really nice when your entire system is customized to your liking, because you don't have to rip out whatever config your distro is shipping to then configure your stuff as you like, since your distro doesn't configure anything for you.
@@_boux thanks for the insightful reply! Looks like I'll just install it on the computer I use to fiddle around but not the one I also use for gaming. I wanted to ditch Windows on that machine and thought about finally trying arch on a real machine for a change but all this stuff looks like too much for a PC I only need to boot and game on.
Agree! Great video, and not only installation but neat bits of great information! Great for newbies to be introduced to concepts like grub, file systems and systemd in a friendly manner
One thing he forgot to mention at the start is that you need to be connected to the internet. If you're using WiFi, use iwctl to connect. If you're using LAN, then you don't need to configure anything
I am using a MacBook, when I try to configure the wifi on the iwctl, with the command station list it does not find any network cards and I can't connect to the wifi. Anyone have the same problem?
As a very long windows user. For the very first time I feel refreshing installing Arch linux. I know I'm probably naive by saying these words but it actually makes wanna learn more.
funny, I don't know how I missed that :). I guess it leads to a better tutorial on how to set up the gdm service and whatnot though. happy little accident!
Honestly, I have been using Linux for quite few years, and I have always used a distro based on Arch and right now as I want to install titling window managers, I only need the things which are required which is a display manager and the compositor like Hyprland etc. watching your videos I learnt a lot. Keep such videos coming love your work and effort explaining the booting process.
This is a God Send. I was intimidated when i first try to install Arch Linux. Panicked when it first booted to a command line. So I decided to install EndeavourOS. I'm now ready to jump back in to Arch Linux. You have a new subscriber!
This was a fantastic video and I appreciate your very thorough walk-through! Because of it, I have been able to download and install Arch Linux for the first time and as being a "noob", am interested in seeing more episodes where we can move forward with this. Thanks!
English is not my native language but thanks to the quality of your tuto and the fact that you explain slowly I understood everything and what a great lesson for people who do not know linux I look forward to the sequel thank you to you ...
Ok.. you convinced me. I used to run on Ubuntu years ago. I've been on macOS the last 15 years or so. I started using nvim about two months ago over vscode and moved back to Ubuntu full time last week. I have a new machine coming in tomorrow and I'm going to try Arch on it instead. Wish me luck!
If you have issues, try Garuda, an Arch fork that has most things set up, or at least makes it easy to set up things like Bottles, Virt QEMU, btrfs snapshots, etc…
Thanks! Simply the best! Feelings of self growth are amazing. No way I've ever find time to read thru docs to start using it, but with your series most likely I will
I've been dailing arch for some time now. Personally I knew about the existence of the archinstall script but chose to avoid it because I figured I would learn more about the whole linux inner workings that way. It was the biggest reason I switched for the ubuntu I was rocking before. It is in fact a lot more advanced and you do learn a lot more doing it that way. At the same time I can't lie that this process is a LOT easier. Either way, great video, I still managed to learn some things. Your neovim playlist a while back made me jump over and I cannot tell you how glad I am that I did so. Keep up the amazing work boss :)
despite what some people say, archinstall does work properly but I do recommend you manually create your partition layout with cfdisk first before using archinstall. after that it all comes down to preferences, I don't like gnome. I installed hyprland for wayland, and xfce for x11 (you will need a desktop environment for both due to compatibility).
Thank you so much for putting up this tutorial. It is incredibly detailed and easy to follow. I finally managed to get Arch up and running! I'm looking forward to the rest of the episodes in this series to learn more about Arch and Linux.
I want to thank you for this very informative video. It helped me in finally being able to install Arch Linux, and although I made several mistakes along the way, I stayed the course, and after finding your video, it made it that much more easy to finally reboot into that wonderful GUI with my name waiting for me to sign in with my password! My journey with Linux started about six months ago, and my first distribution was with Linux Mint, which I absolutely grew to love. Because I was curious about other distributions, I decided on installing EndeavorOS, and used that OS, but didn't stay long with it before I decided to try to tackle Arch Linux. So for about a week, I continued to read and when I decided to go for it and learn how to install Arch Linux. After all of the reading, and making the effort to learn how, It was so satisfying to finally reboot into the GUI, and I'm enjoying setting up my new distribution. And now, I too can say, I too use Arch, BTW!
This is the best Arch Tutorial I've seen thus far, great job! On a separate note, I love the sound of your keyboard. Based on you backwall I'm assuming custom, would you by chance share what board and switches you use?
This method is comprised now. I did a full install just now and avoided the mirroring section of the archinstall part of installing. Setting up the "keyring" first solved my issue with your install guide. Great Vids nerd!!!
Hi, watched this video when it was released, loved it, and 3 months later I decided to re-install my Mint desktop computer under Arch (upgrading my SSD at the same time). I won't say it was a nightmare, but I must admit I struggled quite a bit with the custom partitioning I wanted (never been a fan of a giant root partition). I took me nearly 3 hours until I successfully booted into my fresh install. One thing to be noted : in the archinstall script, you can use the "Profile" menu to directly tell which kind of system you're deploying (Desktop, Server, etc), and pick the desktop environment(s) you want to install, and which GPU driver to install as well (NVIDIA-open in my case). This avoids you the hassle of the last part of the video, and on first boot you can immediately log into one of the desktop environments you enabled in the install script ! Also, if you prefer custom partitioning, it's easier to do it with cfdisk once you booted on the ISO, prior to launching the archinstall script.
Hi. So I am quite obsessed with your tutorials now. Been dabbling in the last years with Linux, trying to make the big step in ditching Windows so I tested out a lot of Distros but nothing really "zinged" so I was almost at the point where I was ready to give up and accept the eternal Windows "curse". That until I found your youtube videos by mistake. Now I am using Arch (by the way) and this only thanks to you. I also love your other courses. Now I am setting up NeoVim (I am a daily JetBrains IDE but it's time to try something new, more challenging to learn and to change and optimize my workflow. I feel that NeoVim is the next step). PS: Was a Monokai Colour Theme user, now the Catppuccin Color Theme just looks amazing). Keep up the good work.
installing arch is easy .....stopping it from breaking is NOT easy! You said "im sure you will get used to it" Getting used to something that must be fixed or repaired constantly is like buying a Harley Davidson or a jeep. They are great vehicles ....BUT you must constantly repair them. Your video was extremely well done and for that i gave a thumbs up.
Great video. I just discovered your channel because I wanted to learn more about vanilla Arch Linux as opposed to distros based off of it that provide a GUI-type install. I wanted to be able to control what was installed and build up from that. I've been using Linux since early 1990 starting with the SLS/Slackware releases which were imaged to 15+ floppies after I FTP'd them using my college's internet on a Unix server, uudecoded into binary floppy images, and then downloaded to a PC via FTP. This was in the days when I was still running DOS and Windows 3.1. Seeing Linux evolve like it has over the years has been amazing. All the new "easy to install" distros are great to ease a beginner/non-techie into the world of Linux. When I discovered Arch Linux, it was a breath of fresh air and a throw-back to the old days of Linux, but better. Yeah, it can be daunting if you don't know what you're doing, but there are plenty of great instructions out there, including this video. And with virtual machines, it's so much easier now to experiment first without having to worry about possibly destroying your current install of an OS if you wish to dual boot.
fedora was so incredibly easy and it was a great transition from windows. i still have ALLOT to learn, but it got me up and continuing my PC usage with very little interruption. sometimes i have to remind myself that im no longer running windows. arch looks like it's something completely different. im using KDE desktop. that being said i am subscribing because i think you have a great wealth of information to offer any linux user.
Hey man, keep it up. These guides are super clear, and I am finally making my transition to Linux cause of you. I've tinkered with Mint on other computers, but it's time to really understand how Linux works and make the full switch
I enjoy your videos but am disappointed you skipped over finding and downloading the Arch Linux iso. I can't tell what I'm supposed to do, so from minute 04:00 I was already lost! Can you point me to a guide for downloading the ISO? Then I can jump back in with this tutorial. Thanks, apologies if I'm missing something obvious.
Maybe one day I try Arch. For now I love Debian Stable + backports + flatpaks + custom Node, PHP repos so I have new versions in Debian Stable and there is basically no updates taking my time unless really necessary.
17:16 you might wanna use fastfetch instead, cuz it is a fork of neofetch rewritten in C and loads up instantly. Also neofetch hasn’t been updated in a long time, in my system neofetch shows false memory uses😂😂
Finally a ytuber that actually explains things so we noobs can grasp an understanding while we learn Linux. Thank you! Quick question though, I thought neofetch was decommissioned, maybe that was after this video was created, idk. Are you still using it or using something else? I've been using fastfetch for the last month while distro hoping to find my place in the world 😅. Only been using Linux for a month and already want to hop on Arch...all the other distros have been decent, but Nobara has been the only one with a stable experience.
I'm a longtime Windows user that now runs Arch Linux on my everyday computer. I used the archinstall command and all worked well for me. I have tried a bunch of different distros in VMs but I find that I prefer Arch. Thanks for the informative video.
I just installed Arch yesterday and your video was of great help. One thing that might be of use: I installed it on a corporate Thinkpad Laptop, and even though I choose an UEFI capable boot loader, Arch didn't boot after the first reboot. I needed to go to the BIOS settings and change the "sleep" option from Windows to Linux, also, disable safe boot. Just to test I didn't go with GNOME but with KDE and it was fairly easy following the arch documentation. If possible please make a video about the packet managers alternative to pacman and something about AUR, I went into the KDE Software center to try it and it installs using flatpack instead of pacman, and even though it works some applications can't seem to find the /app/ folder when they are installed from different packet managers (talking from my recent experience lol). I'll try to get familiarized with the environment and maybe try a tiling window manager once I'm comfortable with using more the terminal :)
Forgot to mention one small details - you can launch archinstall without internet. Good luck and connecting your laptop to wlan in terminal without knowing how to do it.
Just a tip 1. You need to set up the IP address and gateway manually if you want to connect to a WiFi 2. If you already have partitions on your disk and you want to overwrite them by Arch installation, archinstall won't to do this for you and you have to remove them using fdisk before running archinstall
I believe that you didn't use the profile option from the "archinstall" script on purpose to show how the Desktop Environment as well as the Windows Manager and Display Manager are connected and enabled in the kernel. Also we could install both "linux" and "linux-lts" kernels, so as to have something to boot, in case one kernel doesn't boot. By the way, very good job, but it will be nice to see an full custom installation too. For example, using custom partitioning and LVM in order to have the ability to extend the hard disk drive. 😉
You don't need to turn on compression in btrfs to get copy on write, that's just how btrfs works in general. Compression is nice but I don't know if I trust the btrfs implementation of it.
Fun video thank you i am a bit confused why you installed the gnome desktop and gdm after the set up using the cmd line (pacman) as you can do it during the set up under the "Profile" option,, you chose not to use ?? Tho i think its more fun doing your option even though unnecessary
Using arch for 4 years now... never had a issue ... What I noticed is that most of the breakage actually caused by a full fledged Desktop Environments like plasma, gnome etc...
So I've attempted to install using this install method 7 or 8 times. The very first time it worked and I neofetched at the end. That was super cool. Unfortunately every attempt after the first selecting my mirror region it automatically began searching Canada 🇨🇦 for the fastest mirrors...ok. problem is I kept getting errors connected to my mirrors? After many more very careful attempts I tried mirroring from the USA. That completely failed. Hopefully the archistall method won't keep failing. I did get a fully working desktop but being unable to neofetch and getting errors when I tried I've given up for now.
Cool guide! One small thing tho, you seem to have overlooked disk encryption function in this guide. I'm sure this video mostly focus on basic installation, but since re-encrypt a disk/partition after an installation is quite complicated, and because disk encryption is an extremely important security function (especially for laptop users), imo introducing it as early as possible would be better for new users.
Drag n'drop from Windows 11 host to Arch guest (virtualbox) doesn't work, it gives me an error "DnD: Error: Drag and drop to guest not possible -- either the guest OS does not support this, or the Guest Additions are not installed." Is there any workaround?
OK.. I have a Question.... I have seen a few videos of Installing Arch with the install script, Some Install the DE like you did, Others use an option in the Install script after choosing the Desktop Load type options... Is there a Difference???
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I enjoy your videos very much I must say! I am just fearful that if I install Arch it's like the final puzzle piece with fall into place.. The fault lines will shift like never before. The ground will shake. Mother Earth will cry out with a groan that hasn't been heard since Jesus' pet lizards escaped his terrarium. God WILL be furious. At y'all, not me. He's knows I'm just a toddler who found a loaded revolver lol
Try through virtualization first. No sweat, just learning
@@DadtotheMax7 I can not find any video's of how to install it on bootup in Quickgmu any ideas ?
Some gripes with the archinstall part of the video:
-Explaining what the different kernel types really are instead of meme-ing about it could be helpful
-Skipping over the Profile option seems like a weird idea, since it will also handle installing required components for desktop environments automatically, such as a terminal emulator and display manager (gdm/sddm) and enable required services for stuff like polkit and dbus. If you don't pick a profile you often have to get those and configure them manually.
-Telling people not to worry about Optional Repositories in the installer is also a bad idea since you absolutely need to enable multilib for any kind of gaming, it takes 1 second to enable in here, this just adds more fucking around with config files for no reason
May I ask you what multilib is? Anyway I second your gripes.
I'm not 100% new to Linux and I only tried installing Arch with archinstall a couple times, so I watched this hoping to see some things I didn't know get explained...
...yet I feel he overcomplicated the process a bit. The two times I did try archinstall in a VM I installed GNOME immediately and when I reboot my computer I already saw the login window to boot into my desktop. What's the point of not installing it to then do it in chroot?
It's a genuine question, since as I said I'm new to Arch and archinstall. Is there any benefit or it makes more sense to just install the DE from archinstall and be done with it?
Any other steps that could be done better?
@@agoniavr multilib is the repo for 32-bit packages, like the 32-bit versions of your graphics libraries, which is 100% necessary for a lot of steam games. And yeah, you don't need to chroot into your install to setup a display manager, just use the archinstall desktop profiles with a display manager selected. If you want to setup your display manager on your own, just setup everything on your own and choose the "minimal" profile instead of a desktop profile.
But as usual, using Arch as your first distro is not really recommended, as Arch is not optimized for the desktop by default, since it comes with whatever defaults its packages use.
You will not have the best gaming performance out of the box. I remember I had a ton of issues with elden ring having terrible performance until I used the amd_pstate=passive kernel parameter to change my CPU frequency scaling driver, and then used the cpupower utility to manually set the freqency range I want and other settings. My fps went from an average of 45 to around 80. There's also general stability things like messing with the vm.swappiness values with sysctl.
A lot of packages are also simply not configured for you by default on Arch, you literally always just get the factory defaults. For example, installing smb or ssh will not simply work, you have to configure the daemons yourself and then start them. The wiki is pretty good for that, but it's still a lot more work then simply installing the pre-configured package on something like Linux Mint.
That's just how Arch works tho, the whole "just give me the thing and I'll do the rest myself" is really nice when your entire system is customized to your liking, because you don't have to rip out whatever config your distro is shipping to then configure your stuff as you like, since your distro doesn't configure anything for you.
@@_boux thanks for the insightful reply! Looks like I'll just install it on the computer I use to fiddle around but not the one I also use for gaming. I wanted to ditch Windows on that machine and thought about finally trying arch on a real machine for a change but all this stuff looks like too much for a PC I only need to boot and game on.
Just in case you did NOT know. This is the clearest installation tutorial of ANY Linux distribution for beginners on RUclips🐧🐧🐧🐧
Thanks! :)
Agree! Great video, and not only installation but neat bits of great information! Great for newbies to be introduced to concepts like grub, file systems and systemd in a friendly manner
the purist doesn't like this way as they should
there are many I mean he just did an archinstall even a potato can do that 🫢 I dunno how you weren't able to find anything maybe you're just d...
@@crackedoutofmymind-h8m OK, dude, everyone knows you're a potato
One thing he forgot to mention at the start is that you need to be connected to the internet. If you're using WiFi, use iwctl to connect. If you're using LAN, then you don't need to configure anything
If you use ArchBang you can still install Archlinux no network connection is required.
I was on lan on an old laptop and it didn't connect.
I am using a MacBook, when I try to configure the wifi on the iwctl, with the command station list it does not find any network cards and I can't connect to the wifi. Anyone have the same problem?
@@fabiostefana8048 I followed this guide at minute 8 ruclips.net/video/FxeriGuJKTM/видео.html to be able to connect to wifi. Hope it helps.
I don't have a MacBook, so I'm not sure how to do it myself, but you can search online for "(MacBook your_version install Arch Linux)."
As a very long windows user. For the very first time I feel refreshing installing Arch linux. I know I'm probably naive by saying these words but it actually makes wanna learn more.
tbh i already installed arch but it's just fun watching this guy
the most arch btw comment you can see 😀
Same
Agree
Same😅
Honestly this guy is next level
Nerds, for Timezone is very important to set it correctly based on your location/region, to avoid potential issues later on locales & so on.
U can install DE in "PROFILE" section of the installer, select "DESKTOP" and then Gnome or whatever
I'm testing this on a vm. Thanks for the heads up
funny, I don't know how I missed that :). I guess it leads to a better tutorial on how to set up the gdm service and whatnot though. happy little accident!
@@typecraft_dev I agree, I also think it leads to a better tutorial. Great video btw
Cannot wait for typecraft arch based iso, full of all nerd goodness we need 🎉
What's nice about the profile setting is that it basically sets everything up for you. It even has a Hyprland profile now, too!
Honestly, I have been using Linux for quite few years, and I have always used a distro based on Arch and right now as I want to install titling window managers, I only need the things which are required which is a display manager and the compositor like Hyprland etc. watching your videos I learnt a lot. Keep such videos coming love your work and effort explaining the booting process.
This is a God Send. I was intimidated when i first try to install Arch Linux. Panicked when it first booted to a command line. So I decided to install EndeavourOS. I'm now ready to jump back in to Arch Linux. You have a new subscriber!
9:33 there is a mistake, you'll get an error if you choose your audio, do it after you have completely setup
Waited a whole week for this ep, and it was more than worth it!
This was a fantastic video and I appreciate your very thorough walk-through! Because of it, I have been able to download and install Arch Linux for the first time and as being a "noob", am interested in seeing more episodes where we can move forward with this. Thanks!
English is not my native language but thanks to the quality of your tuto and the fact that you explain slowly I understood everything and what a great lesson for people who do not know linux I look forward to the sequel thank you to you ...
Ok.. you convinced me. I used to run on Ubuntu years ago. I've been on macOS the last 15 years or so. I started using nvim about two months ago over vscode and moved back to Ubuntu full time last week. I have a new machine coming in tomorrow and I'm going to try Arch on it instead. Wish me luck!
Good luck! you can do this!
If you have issues, try Garuda, an Arch fork that has most things set up, or at least makes it easy to set up things like Bottles, Virt QEMU, btrfs snapshots, etc…
Thanks! Simply the best! Feelings of self growth are amazing. No way I've ever find time to read thru docs to start using it, but with your series most likely I will
Wonderful!
there are many I mean he just did an archinstall even a potato can do that 🫢 I dunno how you weren't able to find anything maybe you're just d...
I've been dailing arch for some time now. Personally I knew about the existence of the archinstall script but chose to avoid it because I figured I would learn more about the whole linux inner workings that way. It was the biggest reason I switched for the ubuntu I was rocking before. It is in fact a lot more advanced and you do learn a lot more doing it that way. At the same time I can't lie that this process is a LOT easier.
Either way, great video, I still managed to learn some things. Your neovim playlist a while back made me jump over and I cannot tell you how glad I am that I did so. Keep up the amazing work boss :)
That’s awesome! Happy to hear you liked the neovim stuff too thank you!
despite what some people say, archinstall does work properly but I do recommend you manually create your partition layout with cfdisk first before using archinstall. after that it all comes down to preferences, I don't like gnome. I installed hyprland for wayland, and xfce for x11 (you will need a desktop environment for both due to compatibility).
Awesome video!
Been using Arch for a while now, but I love seeing these kinds of videos as I always learn something new.
Can't wait for the next one!
Thank you so much for putting up this tutorial. It is incredibly detailed and easy to follow. I finally managed to get Arch up and running! I'm looking forward to the rest of the episodes in this series to learn more about Arch and Linux.
I am loving this series so far. Looking forward to episode 2!
I want to thank you for this very informative video. It helped me in finally being able to install Arch Linux, and although I made several mistakes along the way, I stayed the course, and after finding your video, it made it that much more easy to finally reboot into that wonderful GUI with my name waiting for me to sign in with my password! My journey with Linux started about six months ago, and my first distribution was with Linux Mint, which I absolutely grew to love. Because I was curious about other distributions, I decided on installing EndeavorOS, and used that OS, but didn't stay long with it before I decided to try to tackle Arch Linux. So for about a week, I continued to read and when I decided to go for it and learn how to install Arch Linux. After all of the reading, and making the effort to learn how, It was so satisfying to finally reboot into the GUI, and I'm enjoying setting up my new distribution. And now, I too can say, I too use Arch, BTW!
This is the best Arch Tutorial I've seen thus far, great job!
On a separate note, I love the sound of your keyboard. Based on you backwall I'm assuming custom, would you by chance share what board and switches you use?
It’s a happy hacking keyboard. So. Topre!
This method is comprised now. I did a full install just now and avoided the mirroring section of the archinstall part of installing. Setting up the "keyring" first solved my issue with your install guide. Great Vids nerd!!!
This was very well done and easy to follow as a Linux beginner! Can't wait for the other parts!
I watched a lot of Arch Linux Installation guides. Best one so far!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼👍👍 thanks man, I was successful in installing it finally
Hi, watched this video when it was released, loved it, and 3 months later I decided to re-install my Mint desktop computer under Arch (upgrading my SSD at the same time). I won't say it was a nightmare, but I must admit I struggled quite a bit with the custom partitioning I wanted (never been a fan of a giant root partition). I took me nearly 3 hours until I successfully booted into my fresh install. One thing to be noted : in the archinstall script, you can use the "Profile" menu to directly tell which kind of system you're deploying (Desktop, Server, etc), and pick the desktop environment(s) you want to install, and which GPU driver to install as well (NVIDIA-open in my case). This avoids you the hassle of the last part of the video, and on first boot you can immediately log into one of the desktop environments you enabled in the install script ! Also, if you prefer custom partitioning, it's easier to do it with cfdisk once you booted on the ISO, prior to launching the archinstall script.
Hi. So I am quite obsessed with your tutorials now. Been dabbling in the last years with Linux, trying to make the big step in ditching Windows so I tested out a lot of Distros but nothing really "zinged" so I was almost at the point where I was ready to give up and accept the eternal Windows "curse". That until I found your youtube videos by mistake.
Now I am using Arch (by the way) and this only thanks to you.
I also love your other courses. Now I am setting up NeoVim (I am a daily JetBrains IDE but it's time to try something new, more challenging to learn and to change and optimize my workflow. I feel that NeoVim is the next step).
PS: Was a Monokai Colour Theme user, now the Catppuccin Color Theme just looks amazing).
Keep up the good work.
I love your style, the way of speaking, the clarity and the no-nonesense information. Sub earned!
this video "tutorial" is 99% nonsense lmao
@@sly234 How so?
I had gotten stuck on trying to figure out the install for Arch, so thank you for the archinstall command.
I've recently started experementing with installing Arch🐧, now I'll finish the setup with your tutorial
You had me at the "beh-turfs" filesystem
This is the only tutorial to install arch that works - thank you so much typecraft U R AWESOME
You got me with “burn to usb drive “ 🔥🔥
installing arch is easy .....stopping it from breaking is NOT easy! You said "im sure you will get used to it" Getting used to something that must be fixed or repaired constantly is like buying a Harley Davidson or a jeep. They are great vehicles ....BUT you must constantly repair them.
Your video was extremely well done and for that i gave a thumbs up.
Thanks! I’m more of a Ford guy myself
What are you doing with your system?
Thanks nerd! Was waiting for this a for a real long week, gonna do it now :D
Great video. I just discovered your channel because I wanted to learn more about vanilla Arch Linux as opposed to distros based off of it that provide a GUI-type install. I wanted to be able to control what was installed and build up from that.
I've been using Linux since early 1990 starting with the SLS/Slackware releases which were imaged to 15+ floppies after I FTP'd them using my college's internet on a Unix server, uudecoded into binary floppy images, and then downloaded to a PC via FTP. This was in the days when I was still running DOS and Windows 3.1. Seeing Linux evolve like it has over the years has been amazing. All the new "easy to install" distros are great to ease a beginner/non-techie into the world of Linux. When I discovered Arch Linux, it was a breath of fresh air and a throw-back to the old days of Linux, but better. Yeah, it can be daunting if you don't know what you're doing, but there are plenty of great instructions out there, including this video. And with virtual machines, it's so much easier now to experiment first without having to worry about possibly destroying your current install of an OS if you wish to dual boot.
SIR YOU SAVED ME, it was like the 6th 7th time trying to install, I finally managed, thank you very much sir, i'll follow the whole course for sure
Looking forward to the next video :). I appreciate them as installments/episode. I don't feel obligated to sit and watch 2hrs+ of video. just 20min :)
I’m loving this series! 🎉
I remember when i had to go like 3 times through arch installation process to make it work as expected. Really good stuff man! congrats!
Best linux tutorial channel for beginners on yt
Due to your channel and the way to explains stuff -> i am just loving the linux env now. Good work -> keep it up
Hey, great series. I was curious if plan to have a dedicated schedule for this series?
Great work, and thanks for all the background knowledge :D
The schedule is roughly 1 episode per week. total of 4-6 episodes (haven't decided)
This video and the channel is pure gold. It made me want to embrace this new workflow. Keep doing the good work.
8:30 you don't have to enable compression to use CoW.
fedora was so incredibly easy and it was a great transition from windows. i still have ALLOT to learn, but it got me up and continuing my PC usage with very little interruption. sometimes i have to remind myself that im no longer running windows. arch looks like it's something completely different. im using KDE desktop. that being said i am subscribing because i think you have a great wealth of information to offer any linux user.
Mate your videos are going from strength to strength, love it! Thanks nerd!
very well explained!! can't wait for EP 2
This was really excellent. I now have a couple of test VMs trying out Arch.
SUPER cool, educational, AND entertaining video! AMAZING job!
Hey man, keep it up. These guides are super clear, and I am finally making my transition to Linux cause of you. I've tinkered with Mint on other computers, but it's time to really understand how Linux works and make the full switch
I enjoy your videos but am disappointed you skipped over finding and downloading the Arch Linux iso. I can't tell what I'm supposed to do, so from minute 04:00 I was already lost! Can you point me to a guide for downloading the ISO? Then I can jump back in with this tutorial. Thanks, apologies if I'm missing something obvious.
Archlinux successfully installed xD great tutorial, love this series
@15:50 once I got here, I ran into errors upon errors. I wanted to start it off with cutefish and couldn't seem to crack it
for me this is the best and easiest youtube channel for linux
Awesome video! Can't wait for the tiling wm! Im and xfce kind of guy but i really want to experiment with I3 ( at least as the first one)
I love that Keyboard sound, which kb is it ?
happy hacking pro! its the best been using it for like 10 years :)
HHKB Type S - check it out amzn.to/3C8iLwP
Maybe one day I try Arch. For now I love Debian Stable + backports + flatpaks + custom Node, PHP repos so I have new versions in Debian Stable and there is basically no updates taking my time unless really necessary.
I can't wait for the next video😊
17:16 you might wanna use fastfetch instead, cuz it is a fork of neofetch rewritten in C and loads up instantly. Also neofetch hasn’t been updated in a long time, in my system neofetch shows false memory uses😂😂
Nice I’ll check that out!
long live screenfetch
thank you very much this was very helpful ricchiardo
yes indeed
Love this series every step explained efficiently. ❤
Finally a ytuber that actually explains things so we noobs can grasp an understanding while we learn Linux. Thank you!
Quick question though, I thought neofetch was decommissioned, maybe that was after this video was created, idk. Are you still using it or using something else? I've been using fastfetch for the last month while distro hoping to find my place in the world 😅. Only been using Linux for a month and already want to hop on Arch...all the other distros have been decent, but Nobara has been the only one with a stable experience.
I'm a longtime Windows user that now runs Arch Linux on my everyday computer. I used the archinstall command and all worked well for me. I have tried a bunch of different distros in VMs but I find that I prefer Arch. Thanks for the informative video.
I just installed Arch yesterday and your video was of great help. One thing that might be of use: I installed it on a corporate Thinkpad Laptop, and even though I choose an UEFI capable boot loader, Arch didn't boot after the first reboot. I needed to go to the BIOS settings and change the "sleep" option from Windows to Linux, also, disable safe boot. Just to test I didn't go with GNOME but with KDE and it was fairly easy following the arch documentation. If possible please make a video about the packet managers alternative to pacman and something about AUR, I went into the KDE Software center to try it and it installs using flatpack instead of pacman, and even though it works some applications can't seem to find the /app/ folder when they are installed from different packet managers (talking from my recent experience lol). I'll try to get familiarized with the environment and maybe try a tiling window manager once I'm comfortable with using more the terminal :)
Forgot to mention one small details - you can launch archinstall without internet. Good luck and connecting your laptop to wlan in terminal without knowing how to do it.
favorite new youtuber and series
Just a tip
1. You need to set up the IP address and gateway manually if you want to connect to a WiFi
2. If you already have partitions on your disk and you want to overwrite them by Arch installation, archinstall won't to do this for you and you have to remove them using fdisk before running archinstall
how do i set up my wifi I'm kinda confused do you have any suggestions?(I'm a newbie)
Jesteś najlepszy. Wielkie dzięki za łatwą instrukcje
Following along. Keep em coming!
You outdid yourself here. Thank you.
Plz do Nix os next 😅 I wanna really get into linux and am still learning. Thanks to series like this one ❤
its finally here! thanks nerd
“Hey Dad - what’s it mean to burn something onto a usb-drive?” 😂
I believe that you didn't use the profile option from the "archinstall" script on purpose to show how the Desktop Environment as well as the Windows Manager and Display Manager are connected and enabled in the kernel. Also we could install both "linux" and "linux-lts" kernels, so as to have something to boot, in case one kernel doesn't boot. By the way, very good job, but it will be nice to see an full custom installation too. For example, using custom partitioning and LVM in order to have the ability to extend the hard disk drive. 😉
You don't need to turn on compression in btrfs to get copy on write, that's just how btrfs works in general.
Compression is nice but I don't know if I trust the btrfs implementation of it.
Your keyboard sounds really great! and thanks for the tuto!
Yeah, I love this thing. HHKB Type S - check it out amzn.to/3C8iLwP
Can't wait for the next video.
Me neither I hope I make it soon
Fun video thank you i am a bit confused why you installed the gnome desktop and gdm after the set up using the cmd line (pacman) as you can do it during the set up under the "Profile" option,, you chose not to use ?? Tho i think its more fun doing your option even though unnecessary
my biggest gripe with Arch Linux is no Secure Boot support ootb, setting up secure boot is a hassle...
thanks for video, i followed what you did and now am a Arch user btw
Using arch for 4 years now... never had a issue ...
What I noticed is that most of the breakage actually caused by a full fledged Desktop Environments like plasma, gnome etc...
So I've attempted to install using this install method 7 or 8 times. The very first time it worked and I neofetched at the end. That was super cool. Unfortunately every attempt after the first selecting my mirror region it automatically began searching Canada 🇨🇦 for the fastest mirrors...ok. problem is I kept getting errors connected to my mirrors? After many more very careful attempts I tried mirroring from the USA. That completely failed. Hopefully the archistall method won't keep failing. I did get a fully working desktop but being unable to neofetch and getting errors when I tried I've given up for now.
Cool guide! One small thing tho, you seem to have overlooked disk encryption function in this guide. I'm sure this video mostly focus on basic installation, but since re-encrypt a disk/partition after an installation is quite complicated, and because disk encryption is an extremely important security function (especially for laptop users), imo introducing it as early as possible would be better for new users.
Doesn’t the archinstall script let you choose the display manager and DE/WM?
17:10 thrully the most important part of the all Tutorial! 🤡 Thanks @typecraft! Anxious to see the EP 3! 🏆
great stuff again on this channel, thanks a lot 👍
As soon as my fedora falls me, I will definitely come back to this.
Great video! Btw, if you want to run the same command using sudo just type sudo !!
thanks for making these videos. This is great stuff.
Awesome tutorial! Do you know how to fix the small resolution?
I only had that issue in the VM. And I didn’t have time to fix it before recording. I’m sure there’s a VM setting in missing
i don't know if you changed the camera or lighting but, video colors looks great!
Drag n'drop from Windows 11 host to Arch guest (virtualbox) doesn't work, it gives me an error "DnD: Error: Drag and drop to guest not possible -- either the guest OS does not support this, or the Guest Additions are not installed."
Is there any workaround?
There’s a lot of memes and machismo but Arch is really not that bad nowadays. Anyone willing to learn can do it. Cool video, as always 🙌
I probably haven't seen a vdo that simplifies arch install this much. Waiting for more
Love it, thats what I was going for, thanks!
there are many I mean he just did an archinstall even a potato can do that 🫢 I dunno how you weren't able to find anything maybe you're just d...
Awesome video, I really learned a lot. Thank you!
OK.. I have a Question.... I have seen a few videos of Installing Arch with the install script, Some Install the DE like you did, Others use an option in the Install script after choosing the Desktop Load type options... Is there a Difference???
thank you sir, i was waiting for this video
Fantastic guide! Looking forward to the next episode!