The AUR is life. Every time I go to check out some other distro, not having access to the aur is my biggest gripe. Like I just want one place to install all my software, and the aur delivers every time.
I do really like the AUR, but I only use it as a last resort honestly. If you don't read through what it does, sometimes it will update packages to versions incompatible with everything else, and it will break your system. Little experience, knowledge & reading what it's doing helps a lot, but still. I've seen many folk not realize that's how the AUR works and have broken their system due to incompatibilities.
honestly with the quality of your video, like sound, editing and etc. i was really surprised when i saw im the 748th guy to subscribe you, really a good job you have made :)
I tried Arch for the fun of it 2 years ago and I never left. I like the wiki a lot, I can find what I'm looking for very quick. The distro gives a very tidy impression and it is very versatile. Lately I switched to direct kernel booting with EFI, because I saw an RUclips vid of Brodie Robertson about it. I was to pleasantly surprised how easy it was to do and how well it works with software package updates. Just awesome.
@@PetrSUsername I think my comment is deleted, because I inserted a link. I think it is nmbl, as I understand it, that is a name for something that already existed. Since the link doesn't work: There is an Arch wiki page called "Unified kernel image". I followed those steps. I have mkinitcpio, so mine ended with "Optionally, remove any leftover initramfs-*.img from /boot or /efi." Nice one. I also ran the step described in 2.4. There is also an interesting page called "Arch boot process" and "EFISTUB".
@@rynn_3988 No, I'm not a gamer, I don't even have a dedicated GPU. I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work, although cachyos might slighlty more suitable for that.
While your staff have to Wiki away while their computers go on a strike, who get the job done and send invoices out? Systems even more reliable than Arch have bankrupted corporations and left people jobless. Think beyond entertaining yourself because you cannot make friends. Arch isn't your bestie.
the stuttering you mentioned in i3wm is not actual stuttering but screen tearing caused by the nature of xorg, you can fix the screen tearing of xorg using other compositor which rewrite the root of xorg, the best and most commonly used one is picom
Couldn't agree more. There's also a polling rate that I believe you can adjust, by default it's pretty low to help with system usage. I use picom to get window transparency in Qtile as well when I'm not using my usual Hyprland
I tried many distros in the last 25 years, then used mostly Debian with some occasional new distros along the road. After getting to know Arch, I never felt the urge to try something new. It surely isn't suitable for beginners or when you simply do not want to know how things work under the hood (which is totally ok), but once you get to know it, you love it. I use it on my workstation for coding, local AI experiments (works great with my 7900XTX), gaming (Steam works flawlessly) and everything else. Arch is incredibly versatile, I installed each system solely on ZFS with native encryption. It also powers my new Geekom A7 mediacenter/homeserver. My default desktop environment ist Mate - it may look old, but it simply works exactly the way I want. If you're ready to invest some time and already have some background in Linux: give it a try. If you're unsure: you're probably more happy with a mainstream distro.
I have used multiple distros, and I keep coming back to arch. The main things always bringing me back are: 1. Arch can be very light. With most other distros I have to install some DE and then figure out ways to remove it. 2. AUR: probably the most brilliant bit of technology I use on a daily basis. I’ve heard other people have had issues with it, I personally can’t say I have.
I have been using Linux for 18+ years and Arch really is less trustworthy and more unreliable than Windows. I don't understand the delusional fanboyism about a piece of tech that cannot be trusted in the workplace. Try making a living using Arch. You'd be hungry on a cold, wet night and then your landlord evicts you as your rent is late, all because an update yet again broke your idolatrous Arch. It helps to have life experiences. Nothing .deb based ever let me down. I have installed major IT systems at factories, hospitals, computerised military function, even did IT in aviation. Arch is crap only good for kids, old & young at that, to play with. Grown-ups don't play with Arch.
@@0x6a09 Only advantage I've seen compared to distros like fedora is it has pre-packaged packages that you have to build from source on a lot of distros
@@0x6a09 It's huge. I never had problems installing software on other distros though. I'm not convinced it's superior in that regard to other distros, and I have used it for years.
I like arch almost due to the AUR but everytime I try it I get kernel panic issue. Sometimes it happens while shutdown sometimes while waking up after suspend and sometimes just on its own. If I could've just find a solution for this I'd stay on arch forever
a tip for those who are interested in distro hoping: have separate partitions for your home dir and root dir. this let's you slap on whatever distro you want for basically free. install whatever packages and you'll already have the configs there for it
sounds good, but in my experience, it is practically useless. you'll spend much more time fixing some weird shit (coming from versions incompatibility, differences in root configuration, patches, default distro software etc.) rather than manually merging initial home directory created by the distro itself with the stuff you really need to migrate. it also prevents your home from being hopelessly cluttered after several such "hops"
I've always stepped on a rake whenever I tried doing that. I now just do one btrfs partition with subvolumes, home being one of them. I find it easier to just backup my dotfiles and whatever data worth saving on a separate drive. Just restore the relevant stuff after a fresh install.
@@Xaito was about to comment, this is what I started doing too. Though I've found a weird but for me great distro I'm comfortable enough with sticking to for a few more times. Garuda Linux specifically, which aside from the theme is a pre-configured Arch layer distro that sets up nearly everything to my liking out of the box. Which I've been daily-driving for 2,5 years at this point, with no desire to change currently.
I miss those old thinkpads, owned 3 or 4 of them and the new ones just aren't the same. I've been playing with Arch on a spare machine and there is definitely a lot to like but I have to play with it some more before I decide on trying it as my daily driver.
The first time I installed arch I just rushed through it and leanred nothing. The second time i took my time reading every branch in the installation guide and actually learned a lot. I would say at least one charming aspect of arch is the journey of learning how things fit together.
I now use arch btw. It’s actually not as difficult as I thought it would be but you should rtfm and then rtfm again. Had to reinstall it like three times in three days before I finally did every single step correctly😅(the installation itself wasn’t the issue, it was later when installing GPU drivers and window manager/de that I failed at.
@@forzatoro89 agreed, I actually ended up liking the laptop a lot more than I expected. If not for it being so heavy to carry out I would probably use it day to day
If you know what you're doing, Arch can be *very* stable. I've had some experiences with it, but I couldn't cope with the high maintenance and Fedora's integrations got me lacking lol. Tbh, I could definitely live with Arch if need be.
I have a near zero maintenance install of arch. All I do is update software. Life is good. If I had to do this again from scratch, I'd probably just burn my computer instead.
Arch is very nice initially. I love how simple and fast it is, and how it puts you in charge. But like all distros (except immutable distros and NixOS), every installation and update is all just mutation on top of mutation, so Arch diverges more and more over time (compared to a fresh install) and at some point it starts breaking after a few months or a year. This effect gets amplified by the rolling release model. I know that many people claim that it never broke for them, and I can imagine you can get close if you maintain your system well. I used it for 3 years, and have no regrets. But a release models are definitely more stable.
This is... not windows. Now, I use endeavour OS, but it is pretty much Arch. Not an issue here (as you well put) but updates are ok and they do not mutate that much. At best what one can do is to do a full rebuild of whatever package did not worked.
Used Arch for 4 years, always had something to tinker on. Personally liked it that way. Untill recently something broke (maybe a package issue) that I couldn't figure out and worsened with each passing day. Had to do a fresh install.
I've recently switched to Destkop Linux after ditching Windows last year. I've tried several major distros but at the end I stuck happily on a Arch based distro. Other distros always had missing stuff in their repos. Flatpaks were great in theory, but in practice they start up like molasses and I regularly had to manually fix permission or portal issues. Nix was a close second place, but the barrier of entry was a bit too much for me - getting things done for a desktop Linux noob is easier with the help of Arch wiki.
I've been using Arch Linux for a while now and i came from Manjaro. I haven't encountered a single issue since the installation. Even i was being dumb with multiple desktops, still no issues. I use Hyperland (i have an amd gpu) so everything is smooth desktop wise and many of my needs are met with the AUR and messing with packages from the AUR also isn't a problem!! Well... As long as you don't install any package that's like 5 years old with no updates, then you might meet with everyone's favourite Black Screen lol
So, for the W530, you can do an egpu setup. And, depending on the CPU and ram it will allow you to play most modern games at 1080p low settings. I use it as a daily driver and it works great. The W530 is a literal champ, too bad Lenovo doesn’t make think-pads like it used too.
This video is perfect & very entertaining you've explained so well, you got some very good music taste. I bet you like j dilla. The song from him that i recommend is Don't Cry from the album donuts. You earned a subscriber
sway may fix whatever issues you have on i3, it uses the same graphics backend as hyprland but otherwise it's the same as i3 and configuration is 99% compatible
@@lesbian_index_lebrorum_main I just meant wayland, but it was cool to read they're dropping wlroots. Also it doesn't really sound like aquamarine is supposed to be an alternative to wlroots from its description but i've only looked a little into it so not sure
one and only time i used Arch was about five years ago when i wanted to get some use out of an old Asus netbook that windows was simply too much for. it took blood, sweat and tears but i eventually got it working. anyway - that experience was actually so traumatic that i haven’t used Linux since lol, apart from the odd project. maybe i should give it a serious go again.
Get Endevour or Garuda; you can do Arch the Arch way after you see what it is capable of without the manual headache. I’ve done the vanilla install, and learned a great deal about Linux as a whole during the process. But I need a usable computer, so I went with Garuda this time.
I have the same machine, running Arch as well! I love the W530 and its’ K1000M GPU. Although, the Windows drivers for that GPU were much better than the Linux ones.
My main problem with Arch is just the EFI installations, systemd and grub2 are very hard to install the keys on uefi motherboards.. Thatś why I stopped pure Arch and start using EndeavourOS and Manjaro instead... Great video man
1. Stop using Manjaro, EndeavourOS is great though. 2. by "keys" I assume you mean secure boot? Yes, can be a bit tricky, but use systemd boot and follow the arch wiki instructions and it's not THAT hard.
@@rafnogueira Oh noo, did the boat sink? xD I get you buddy, it could def be better, and it probably will in the future. Just stay on an arch based distro, nothing wrong with that, they are quite literally made for people like you. :)
AUR and the Arch Wiki is godlike. Rolling release is king. Tho so many updates and yes, twice a year stuff simply breaks (one time grub and another time mesa broke .. that was no fun)
arch is just a minimalist systemd linux. There is nothing hard, difficult or fancy in using it. You set up dotfiles and systemd services like on any other systemd GNU/Linux. I see no reason people using something different than arch if they use systemd - its just installing bloat and somebodys else dotfiles. I never broke my arch install, I even run extra-testing repositories because of new KDE both on intel laptop and amd+nvidia desktop and its fine. btw i installed it once long time ago and rsync'ed from old pc. i would recommend a new linux user to start with arch because it has great manual installer and well documented installation procedure.
in over 6 years of running arch on every pc and server I have, the statement of "things will break" is total BS. Not one single f'ing time has it happened to me.
That might have been true +6 years ago, arch WAS pretty unstable. But in 2024, claiming "arch can break in an update", no, it does not. Not unless the user have done strange stuff on their system NOT following documentation. There is a higher risk of breaking your fixed point release installation (ubuntu, mint, popos, whatever) if updating instead of reinstalling new releases than it is to manage to bork an arch installation using pacman -Syu. If you use manjaro though, yeah, then it will break constantly when updating.. xD
it's the nature of the internet. Arch says "we're a rolling release distro, and while unlikely, updates could, potentially, break your system. So male sure to do your backups and keep the lts kernel updated" the internet hears "Arch will break on every update, and on every second update will come to your house and set you on fire"
I love void linux becaue it has not systemD and because it is small and efficient: Functional on anemic computers, and supersnappy on modern computers. With Void Linux, your computer's power is spent on your applications, not on maintaining the operating environment.
I mean, Arch Install is for users who know how to setup their systems the regular way but just can't be bothered since with the rolling release model they'd have to reinstall regularly anyway. If you don't like setting things up, just backup your own dotfiles if you're not happy with ML4W's. I've been using his as well but haven't tweaked everything just how I want it yet 😅
Why do you need to reinstall regularly with rolling release? It's exactly the opposite for me. All I have to do is update every so often, and I have the latest version of the system. No need for big, bulky major version updates.
what? the opposite - with rolling realease you dont have to bother about some mayor realeases or something. how exactly would you break a linux intallation (unless its hardware disk error)? you think those power users cant uninstall certain package or reinstall grub?
@@michal1693 true, but depending on what you're doing, it might just be easier to reinstall, or you just want a fresh install. Either way, the script is there to take away some of the headache. My install has been rock solid for the most part and I run Timeshift just in case, but still, it's nice that it's there.
Just started using Arch as my first real push to linux, two weeks and its great However, I have nvidia grahics card and am running hyprdots hyperland so any nvidia+arch user knows the hell I went through
I prefer to use Arch with i3 wm, that's something! After Arch it's difficult to use any another distribution, because I got a habit to customize something in my OS and by it I often kill Ubuntu , Debian, Mint etc. by customizing something in them :)
I was considering the switch from windows to Linux primarily Linux mint mainly because windows is just filled with bloat ware and I liked how customizable mint is and my pc isn’t the best in memory optimization compared to other pcs but I heard that you can’t play games with anti cheat and I just wanted to know what versions of Linux allow me to play games with anti cheat and if duel booting will help
Hey man. What's the move when looking for a linux laptop for video editing? You discussed it a little bit around the 11 minute mark, is it looking for something with modern discrete graphics supported by Nvidia? I understand the integrated graphics can't outperform discrete in most cases, or would a high performing integrated graphics setup be enough?
@@gabrieljgrant_ yeah you have to make sure your graphics card isn't too old, as long as Nvidia still has support for it you'll probably be fine with Linux as well, but note that video editing is fairly limited on Linux. There are only a few supported programs (like DaVinci and Kden), but more popular programs (like Vegas or the entire Adobe suite) aren't ported. For your question about graphics, your discrete graphics will almost always be better than your integrated graphics. I only chose to use integrated graphics because the discrete drivers were too old. Generally any new laptop with a discrete graphics card should be fine for video editing on Linux as long as the drivers work. Hope this helps!
I also installed Arch as an experiment. I thought that maybe after week or two I will have some issues and will rolle back to another distro. But it turn's out that I use Arch 5 months now XD
honestly, i really love hyprland sway uses wlroots, wlroots has some things lacking which causes many problems (*caused, fortunately most of it is already solved, just that it took too many years lol) and hyprland recently deattached from wlroots, wlroots was slowing down the development progress of hyprland currently, sway is quite decent but hyprland works better despite being newer, and has more development (*important note, works better on my usage, if for you sway works better, thats fantastic, then you should use sway*) and probably one of the main reasons why sway works worse, despite having much more years of development is because of wlroots... its like a dog trying to run while his owner is holding him on a leash preventing him from running..., and hyprland started being like that dog, but decided to change and now is going out with another owner, an owner that runs with him
I've Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 with Ryzen processor, I don't know what I'm missing from my arch installation but I can't play Story of Season on steam. It's running and then stopped, I've been set it to use proton tho
Hey, you only need to configure once and you can save your config files online (like github) or even on a usb key and then use those on a new install. you don't nee to reconfigure everything ;-)
You can just write arch install and you have't configure basically nothing except the necessary things like language, keyboard type, etc. Which are unavoidable in any OS
Using Archinstall is not the opposite of the proper way to install Arch Linux, per se. It's just the way of installing it that doesn't needlessly require an hour or more of your time.
I like Arch Linux for Steam games since Steam Deck supports it but certain games on Lutris I have noticed keep breaking on me causing me to rollback to Windows 10 just to get them to work hopefully it gets fixed if I had a Steam Deck though I would replace SteamOS with an open source operating system to future proof it like Garuda Dragonized it's a perfect Steam Deck future locking tactic that will save money and the Garuda distro looks absolutely beautiful with futuristic Neon Abstract Wallpaper that feels like Cyberpunk 2077 please take my request on trying it out if you get the time and see what I am doing wrong I can't get Oni to work made by Bungie and the installment keeps breaking and Wine won't help any better which is sad because I would kill to play it on Linux.
if your goal is to 'fiddle with your OS,' arch is amazing. you'll learn a lot about linux by just installing it, and its a great gateway to LFS. as a daily driver it is just stupid and absurd. the os you use should not be one you have to constantly tweak. it should just work or your productivity is gone because you are tweaking your configs all the time.
I can't with those vlogs man. "My Nano text editor experience" >so yeah, uhh >I installed nano and edited a 30 line file in it for 5 min >*yaps about it for 13'22''*
Chances are there are things that break in the old update that got fixed in the new one and things in the new update that break. Considering that you probably won't check each update if there are things that break (otherwise that would be an additional con) and not updating can be a serious security risk in the long term, i think this is a pretty bad argument.
plasma gives you more control whereas gnome is a little restrictive in what you can do. And plasma impliments new features way faster than gnome. i'd say try it out and see if you like it.
The only linux distros that I have used are pop os and mint. I daily drove mint on my laptop for a year or so. I also really like this style of content. I honestly want to make a channel similar to this one and you inspire me.
I don't get the appeal of tiling window managers. I guess some form of "mouse is an afterthought in this ui" can make sense when you are on a laptop with a crappy touchpad but not for my desktop.
I first installed arch on 2014 , when i was 11yo
I was so pround of myself
You should! That is pretty impressive! :)
If you have a Steam Deck replace SteamOS with Garuda Linux if you want a future proof Steam Deck your wallet will thank you.
@@TechnoMinded-qp5in Why use such a heavy out-of-the-box disto? Why not pull CachyOS handheld edition?
@@lumeronswift for real.
@@lumeronswiftor maybe go all the way to Jovian-NixOS
The AUR is life. Every time I go to check out some other distro, not having access to the aur is my biggest gripe. Like I just want one place to install all my software, and the aur delivers every time.
yeah facts
do it in a distrobox and feel the freeing embrace of a stable non-rolling host system instead. :)
I do really like the AUR, but I only use it as a last resort honestly. If you don't read through what it does, sometimes it will update packages to versions incompatible with everything else, and it will break your system.
Little experience, knowledge & reading what it's doing helps a lot, but still.
I've seen many folk not realize that's how the AUR works and have broken their system due to incompatibilities.
I install AUR packages straight to my debian install because I simply don't care
fr AURs are such a blessing in comparison to PPAs on Debian/Ubuntu
honestly with the quality of your video, like sound, editing and etc. i was really surprised when i saw im the 748th guy to subscribe you, really a good job you have made :)
glad you like it, more videos coming soon!
I tried Arch for the fun of it 2 years ago and I never left. I like the wiki a lot, I can find what I'm looking for very quick. The distro gives a very tidy impression and it is very versatile. Lately I switched to direct kernel booting with EFI, because I saw an RUclips vid of Brodie Robertson about it. I was to pleasantly surprised how easy it was to do and how well it works with software package updates. Just awesome.
@@PetrSUsername Yes, I believe it's nmbl. I followed this: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_kernel_image
@@PetrSUsername I think my comment is deleted, because I inserted a link. I think it is nmbl, as I understand it, that is a name for something that already existed. Since the link doesn't work: There is an Arch wiki page called "Unified kernel image". I followed those steps. I have mkinitcpio, so mine ended with "Optionally, remove any leftover initramfs-*.img from /boot or /efi." Nice one. I also ran the step described in 2.4. There is also an interesting page called "Arch boot process" and "EFISTUB".
Do you play games with it?
@@rynn_3988 No, I'm not a gamer, I don't even have a dedicated GPU. I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work, although cachyos might slighlty more suitable for that.
While your staff have to Wiki away while their computers go on a strike, who get the job done and send invoices out? Systems even more reliable than Arch have bankrupted corporations and left people jobless. Think beyond entertaining yourself because you cannot make friends. Arch isn't your bestie.
the stuttering you mentioned in i3wm is not actual stuttering but screen tearing caused by the nature of xorg, you can fix the screen tearing of xorg using other compositor which rewrite the root of xorg, the best and most commonly used one is picom
Couldn't agree more.
There's also a polling rate that I believe you can adjust, by default it's pretty low to help with system usage.
I use picom to get window transparency in Qtile as well when I'm not using my usual Hyprland
This!
I tried many distros in the last 25 years, then used mostly Debian with some occasional new distros along the road. After getting to know Arch, I never felt the urge to try something new. It surely isn't suitable for beginners or when you simply do not want to know how things work under the hood (which is totally ok), but once you get to know it, you love it. I use it on my workstation for coding, local AI experiments (works great with my 7900XTX), gaming (Steam works flawlessly) and everything else. Arch is incredibly versatile, I installed each system solely on ZFS with native encryption. It also powers my new Geekom A7 mediacenter/homeserver. My default desktop environment ist Mate - it may look old, but it simply works exactly the way I want. If you're ready to invest some time and already have some background in Linux: give it a try. If you're unsure: you're probably more happy with a mainstream distro.
heey nice video! i love hyprland it is pretty smooth
I have used multiple distros, and I keep coming back to arch.
The main things always bringing me back are:
1. Arch can be very light. With most other distros I have to install some DE and then figure out ways to remove it.
2. AUR: probably the most brilliant bit of technology I use on a daily basis. I’ve heard other people have had issues with it, I personally can’t say I have.
what's so special about the aur though?
I have been using Linux for 18+ years and Arch really is less trustworthy and more unreliable than Windows. I don't understand the delusional fanboyism about a piece of tech that cannot be trusted in the workplace. Try making a living using Arch. You'd be hungry on a cold, wet night and then your landlord evicts you as your rent is late, all because an update yet again broke your idolatrous Arch. It helps to have life experiences. Nothing .deb based ever let me down. I have installed major IT systems at factories, hospitals, computerised military function, even did IT in aviation. Arch is crap only good for kids, old & young at that, to play with. Grown-ups don't play with Arch.
@@isiseshisewebhu gentoo then
@@0x6a09 Only advantage I've seen compared to distros like fedora is it has pre-packaged packages that you have to build from source on a lot of distros
@@0x6a09 It's huge. I never had problems installing software on other distros though. I'm not convinced it's superior in that regard to other distros, and I have used it for years.
Been running Arch since april 2023. Don't regret a thing. I haven't needed to reinstall, and it doesn't break as some people say.
I like arch almost due to the AUR but everytime I try it I get kernel panic issue. Sometimes it happens while shutdown sometimes while waking up after suspend and sometimes just on its own. If I could've just find a solution for this I'd stay on arch forever
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a tip for those who are interested in distro hoping: have separate partitions for your home dir and root dir. this let's you slap on whatever distro you want for basically free. install whatever packages and you'll already have the configs there for it
don't you also have to copy the /etc?
@@TheDZHEX yeah, but you keep the majority of the stuff you use. apps and whatnot. good catch tho i forgot about /etc lol
sounds good, but in my experience, it is practically useless. you'll spend much more time fixing some weird shit (coming from versions incompatibility, differences in root configuration, patches, default distro software etc.) rather than manually merging initial home directory created by the distro itself with the stuff you really need to migrate. it also prevents your home from being hopelessly cluttered after several such "hops"
I've always stepped on a rake whenever I tried doing that. I now just do one btrfs partition with subvolumes, home being one of them. I find it easier to just backup my dotfiles and whatever data worth saving on a separate drive. Just restore the relevant stuff after a fresh install.
@@Xaito was about to comment, this is what I started doing too.
Though I've found a weird but for me great distro I'm comfortable enough with sticking to for a few more times.
Garuda Linux specifically, which aside from the theme is a pre-configured Arch layer distro that sets up nearly everything to my liking out of the box.
Which I've been daily-driving for 2,5 years at this point, with no desire to change currently.
Great video man! I was thinking about making a vid about my arch installation and thoughts too!!
Bro used my photo at 0:53, I'm honored!
yoo 🫡
I dig your style. Keep up the good work.
nice video cuts with jazz in between - very relaxing
I miss those old thinkpads, owned 3 or 4 of them and the new ones just aren't the same. I've been playing with Arch on a spare machine and there is definitely a lot to like but I have to play with it some more before I decide on trying it as my daily driver.
I really like those videos. It's really well explained
The first time I installed arch I just rushed through it and leanred nothing. The second time i took my time reading every branch in the installation guide and actually learned a lot. I would say at least one charming aspect of arch is the journey of learning how things fit together.
I now use arch btw.
It’s actually not as difficult as I thought it would be but you should rtfm and then rtfm again. Had to reinstall it like three times in three days before I finally did every single step correctly😅(the installation itself wasn’t the issue, it was later when installing GPU drivers and window manager/de that I failed at.
Your video is simply amazing (I love your voice 🗣️) 🎉
The thinkpad W530 is honestly better than 80% of laptops around today :D
@@forzatoro89 agreed, I actually ended up liking the laptop a lot more than I expected. If not for it being so heavy to carry out I would probably use it day to day
I bought a "broken" e560 for $60 on ebay and honestly it is a really good laptop, it's the first good laptop I have owned
Hyprland is life
hyprland is bloat
@@uoooooooohthat config is bloat tbh
hyprland only has hype going for it
@@uooooooooh *hyprland is aesthetic bloat (it only uses 0% of my cpu and 40MiB of ram)
hyprland is meme-ricing your linux to look 'cool' on forums
If you know what you're doing, Arch can be *very* stable. I've had some experiences with it, but I couldn't cope with the high maintenance and Fedora's integrations got me lacking lol. Tbh, I could definitely live with Arch if need be.
I have a near zero maintenance install of arch. All I do is update software. Life is good. If I had to do this again from scratch, I'd probably just burn my computer instead.
Arch is very nice initially. I love how simple and fast it is, and how it puts you in charge. But like all distros (except immutable distros and NixOS), every installation and update is all just mutation on top of mutation, so Arch diverges more and more over time (compared to a fresh install) and at some point it starts breaking after a few months or a year. This effect gets amplified by the rolling release model. I know that many people claim that it never broke for them, and I can imagine you can get close if you maintain your system well. I used it for 3 years, and have no regrets. But a release models are definitely more stable.
this is happened to me, i install arch for like 2 weeks and after that my system fell apart. arch just not for everyone imo
This is... not windows. Now, I use endeavour OS, but it is pretty much Arch. Not an issue here (as you well put) but updates are ok and they do not mutate that much. At best what one can do is to do a full rebuild of whatever package did not worked.
@@gilsyah I agree. You got exceptionally unlucky though
Did you read the release notes? From time to time, you need to touch a thing here and there prior to or after an update.
Used Arch for 4 years, always had something to tinker on. Personally liked it that way.
Untill recently something broke (maybe a package issue) that I couldn't figure out and worsened with each passing day. Had to do a fresh install.
I've recently switched to Destkop Linux after ditching Windows last year. I've tried several major distros but at the end I stuck happily on a Arch based distro.
Other distros always had missing stuff in their repos. Flatpaks were great in theory, but in practice they start up like molasses and I regularly had to manually fix permission or portal issues.
Nix was a close second place, but the barrier of entry was a bit too much for me - getting things done for a desktop Linux noob is easier with the help of Arch wiki.
I've been using Arch Linux for a while now and i came from Manjaro. I haven't encountered a single issue since the installation. Even i was being dumb with multiple desktops, still no issues. I use Hyperland (i have an amd gpu) so everything is smooth desktop wise and many of my needs are met with the AUR and messing with packages from the AUR also isn't a problem!!
Well... As long as you don't install any package that's like 5 years old with no updates, then you might meet with everyone's favourite Black Screen lol
So, for the W530, you can do an egpu setup. And, depending on the CPU and ram it will allow you to play most modern games at 1080p low settings. I use it as a daily driver and it works great. The W530 is a literal champ, too bad Lenovo doesn’t make think-pads like it used too.
Just wanted to use Arch to learn Linux, been sticking with it. I love how minimal it is, how I can choose what I want to install
This video is perfect & very entertaining you've explained so well, you got some very good music taste. I bet you like j dilla. The song from him that i recommend is Don't Cry from the album donuts. You earned a subscriber
you're right! i'm a huge fan of nujabes and j dilla haha, their sampling is genuinely out of this world
Nujabes is my fav too
sway may fix whatever issues you have on i3, it uses the same graphics backend as hyprland but otherwise it's the same as i3 and configuration is 99% compatible
yep, I'm fairly sure it was because of X11
hyprland backend is aquamarine not wlroots
@@lesbian_index_lebrorum_main I just meant wayland, but it was cool to read they're dropping wlroots. Also it doesn't really sound like aquamarine is supposed to be an alternative to wlroots from its description but i've only looked a little into it so not sure
one and only time i used Arch was about five years ago when i wanted to get some use out of an old Asus netbook that windows was simply too much for. it took blood, sweat and tears but i eventually got it working.
anyway - that experience was actually so traumatic that i haven’t used Linux since lol, apart from the odd project. maybe i should give it a serious go again.
@@tecc9999 go for it!
Get Endevour or Garuda; you can do Arch the Arch way after you see what it is capable of without the manual headache.
I’ve done the vanilla install, and learned a great deal about Linux as a whole during the process. But I need a usable computer, so I went with Garuda this time.
I have the same machine, running Arch as well! I love the W530 and its’ K1000M GPU. Although, the Windows drivers for that GPU were much better than the Linux ones.
Did not expect the flash bang from Reddit my guy.
welcome to the team btw
Great video🎉
Great video!
Arch+Gnome+Flatpak+AUR is all one needs for a functional Linux distro.
Why Flatpak? I prefer to avoid it.
@@alen2937youd rather avoid snap
i prefer KDE plasma
Very nice video 👏🏽👏🏽
I have helped people and my friends install arch but never on my machine.. should definitely try sometime..
My main problem with Arch is just the EFI installations, systemd and grub2 are very hard to install the keys on uefi motherboards.. Thatś why I stopped pure Arch and start using EndeavourOS and Manjaro instead... Great video man
1. Stop using Manjaro, EndeavourOS is great though.
2. by "keys" I assume you mean secure boot? Yes, can be a bit tricky, but use systemd boot and follow the arch wiki instructions and it's not THAT hard.
@marcusjohansson668 exactly. Every time I tried to configure the security boat in my machine, I broke the arch
@@rafnogueira Oh noo, did the boat sink? xD
I get you buddy, it could def be better, and it probably will in the future.
Just stay on an arch based distro, nothing wrong with that, they are quite literally made for people like you. :)
I agree with other guy, Get off the Manajaro..
Give the arch install script a whirl if you struggle with the EFI setup.
Or just don’t use Secure Boot? 🤔
AUR and the Arch Wiki is godlike.
Rolling release is king.
Tho so many updates and yes, twice a year stuff simply breaks (one time grub and another time mesa broke .. that was no fun)
Awesome video!
arch is just a minimalist systemd linux. There is nothing hard, difficult or fancy in using it. You set up dotfiles and systemd services like on any other systemd GNU/Linux. I see no reason people using something different than arch if they use systemd - its just installing bloat and somebodys else dotfiles. I never broke my arch install, I even run extra-testing repositories because of new KDE both on intel laptop and amd+nvidia desktop and its fine. btw i installed it once long time ago and rsync'ed from old pc. i would recommend a new linux user to start with arch because it has great manual installer and well documented installation procedure.
in over 6 years of running arch on every pc and server I have, the statement of "things will break" is total BS. Not one single f'ing time has it happened to me.
it is very unlikely but not an impossibility, better stated as "may break"
My arch braking with updates
That might have been true +6 years ago, arch WAS pretty unstable. But in 2024, claiming "arch can break in an update", no, it does not. Not unless the user have done strange stuff on their system NOT following documentation.
There is a higher risk of breaking your fixed point release installation (ubuntu, mint, popos, whatever) if updating instead of reinstalling new releases than it is to manage to bork an arch installation using pacman -Syu.
If you use manjaro though, yeah, then it will break constantly when updating.. xD
it's the nature of the internet. Arch says "we're a rolling release distro, and while unlikely, updates could, potentially, break your system. So male sure to do your backups and keep the lts kernel updated"
the internet hears "Arch will break on every update, and on every second update will come to your house and set you on fire"
Great for work in HOME but Why the CLOUD its not adopted ARCH???? its becasuse no make sense have arch at this point.
I love void linux becaue it has not systemD and because it is small and efficient: Functional on anemic computers, and supersnappy on modern computers. With Void Linux, your computer's power is spent on your applications, not on maintaining the operating environment.
I run arch on my thinkpad x240 and it's really fast except the fact that I use HDD, but even with HDD it runs faster than windows
I also use arch :D (only just installed it though. on a spare computer, lol)
nice! have fun with it
I mean, Arch Install is for users who know how to setup their systems the regular way but just can't be bothered since with the rolling release model they'd have to reinstall regularly anyway. If you don't like setting things up, just backup your own dotfiles if you're not happy with ML4W's. I've been using his as well but haven't tweaked everything just how I want it yet 😅
Why do you need to reinstall regularly with rolling release? It's exactly the opposite for me. All I have to do is update every so often, and I have the latest version of the system. No need for big, bulky major version updates.
@@uooooooooh my point was since you're bleeding edge you're more likely to live dangerously and accidentally bork your install at some point 😹
what? the opposite - with rolling realease you dont have to bother about some mayor realeases or something. how exactly would you break a linux intallation (unless its hardware disk error)? you think those power users cant uninstall certain package or reinstall grub?
@@michal1693 true, but depending on what you're doing, it might just be easier to reinstall, or you just want a fresh install. Either way, the script is there to take away some of the headache. My install has been rock solid for the most part and I run Timeshift just in case, but still, it's nice that it's there.
I ak new to these things can you tell me how to backup dot files
Just started using Arch as my first real push to linux, two weeks and its great
However, I have nvidia grahics card and am running hyprdots hyperland so any nvidia+arch user knows the hell I went through
I prefer to use Arch with i3 wm, that's something! After Arch it's difficult to use any another distribution, because I got a habit to customize something in my OS and by it I often kill Ubuntu , Debian, Mint etc. by customizing something in them :)
801th sub, comment before this dude hits 1000 subs
🙏 probably gonna need to upload another video to hit 1k tho
@@Ryclic If im being honest, I have never had a creator reply to me, so your the first:)
@@Ryclic Another thing, should I switch from Kubuntu to EndeavourOS?
I was considering the switch from windows to Linux primarily Linux mint mainly because windows is just filled with bloat ware and I liked how customizable mint is and my pc isn’t the best in memory optimization compared to other pcs but I heard that you can’t play games with anti cheat and I just wanted to know what versions of Linux allow me to play games with anti cheat and if duel booting will help
Hey man. What's the move when looking for a linux laptop for video editing? You discussed it a little bit around the 11 minute mark, is it looking for something with modern discrete graphics supported by Nvidia? I understand the integrated graphics can't outperform discrete in most cases, or would a high performing integrated graphics setup be enough?
@@gabrieljgrant_ yeah you have to make sure your graphics card isn't too old, as long as Nvidia still has support for it you'll probably be fine with Linux as well, but note that video editing is fairly limited on Linux. There are only a few supported programs (like DaVinci and Kden), but more popular programs (like Vegas or the entire Adobe suite) aren't ported.
For your question about graphics, your discrete graphics will almost always be better than your integrated graphics. I only chose to use integrated graphics because the discrete drivers were too old.
Generally any new laptop with a discrete graphics card should be fine for video editing on Linux as long as the drivers work. Hope this helps!
@@Ryclic 'Preciate that, it sure did. Thanks dude!
it begins
I also installed Arch as an experiment. I thought that maybe after week or two I will have some issues and will rolle back to another distro. But it turn's out that I use Arch 5 months now XD
Yeah, I just recently started dual booting with it on my desktop as well, no issues so far!
hello think u leaked eiither ur public or private wifi or area ip at 7:56 in the video bottom right the green text could be wrong
no worries, that's my private IP. thank you for letting me know though, i do appreciate that!
10:20, software encoding is not integrated graphics tho
honestly, i really love hyprland
sway uses wlroots, wlroots has some things lacking which causes many problems (*caused, fortunately most of it is already solved, just that it took too many years lol)
and hyprland recently deattached from wlroots, wlroots was slowing down the development progress of hyprland
currently, sway is quite decent but hyprland works better despite being newer, and has more development
(*important note, works better on my usage, if for you sway works better, thats fantastic, then you should use sway*)
and probably one of the main reasons why sway works worse, despite having much more years of development is because of wlroots...
its like a dog trying to run while his owner is holding him on a leash preventing him from running...,
and hyprland started being like that dog, but decided to change and now is going out with another owner, an owner that runs with him
A 14 years arch user. tried a lot of other distros from timw to time, but always go back to Arch
There are much better distros with less problems, like Ubuntu
LMAO @@wooshbait36
@@BelacEr_missed Provide a proper argument or never reply to me or there might be consequences
@@wooshbait36touche
@@wooshbait36 Why didn't your initial comment offer a proper argument? It's not too late.
I've Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 with Ryzen processor, I don't know what I'm missing from my arch installation but I can't play Story of Season on steam. It's running and then stopped, I've been set it to use proton tho
try using Lutis or Bottles to run it through vine.
It might be a problem with MScode redistributibles, like it was for WH40k boltgun for me.
@@edusoto2509 thank for the insight! I'll check and read more about it later
@@malamhari_ no problem :)
used arch+kde a while ultimately decided that the convenience of kubuntu is my true nirvana
How did you get a higher refresh rate on such an old thinkpad?( it looks like the refresh rate is 120)
it's a normal 60hz panel, but it might look a little better because my phone is shooting in 60 fps
Is that Hyprland? its truly awesome!
what is your laptop model? do you recommend it?
w530, it's a good laptop but a little old and heavy. I would recommend getting something newer, maybe like a T480 or T490
@@Ryclic thank you
09:28 how do you make it look like that man? Looks amazing!!
i'm using the ML4W config running Hyprland!
Hey, you only need to configure once and you can save your config files online (like github) or even on a usb key and then use those on a new install. you don't nee to reconfigure everything ;-)
Guys, i can finally say that i use Arch, btw.
Have you tried the Garuda version, or distro, of Arch?
Based Quaver enjoyer, respect.
“you may configure everything” should be understood as “you have to configure everything”
default settings work fine most of the time
You can just write arch install and you have't configure basically nothing except the necessary things like language, keyboard type, etc. Which are unavoidable in any OS
Using Archinstall is not the opposite of the proper way to install Arch Linux, per se. It's just the way of installing it that doesn't needlessly require an hour or more of your time.
personally i don't think it has much downsides, but i heard some people say that doing it manually kinda like a "tutorial" for arch linux
I like Arch Linux for Steam games since Steam Deck supports it but certain games on Lutris I have noticed keep breaking on me causing me to rollback to Windows 10 just to get them to work hopefully it gets fixed if I had a Steam Deck though I would replace SteamOS with an open source operating system to future proof it like Garuda Dragonized it's a perfect Steam Deck future locking tactic that will save money and the Garuda distro looks absolutely beautiful with futuristic Neon Abstract Wallpaper that feels like Cyberpunk 2077 please take my request on trying it out if you get the time and see what I am doing wrong I can't get Oni to work made by Bungie and the installment keeps breaking and Wine won't help any better which is sad because I would kill to play it on Linux.
Learn to use punctuation marks.
i use ubuntu but arch looks like a good choice to try
nice video!
if your goal is to 'fiddle with your OS,' arch is amazing. you'll learn a lot about linux by just installing it, and its a great gateway to LFS. as a daily driver it is just stupid and absurd. the os you use should not be one you have to constantly tweak. it should just work or your productivity is gone because you are tweaking your configs all the time.
I've never found that you have to tweak it. It's more that you get tempted to.
I can tell cmatrix is yours favorite thing to run
I can't with those vlogs man.
"My Nano text editor experience"
>so yeah, uhh
>I installed nano and edited a 30 line file in it for 5 min
>*yaps about it for 13'22''*
Voice relatable with Future canoe🤐
is my voice that monotone 😔
@Ryclic I meant the creator of the channel Futurecanoe
Wait Hyprland is possible wit Nvidia?
it probably works with noveau driver I guess
So arch have 2 package management right?
Like pacman and yay.
Or i missing something here,
yay is a superset of pacman, like a wrapper with more capabilities (especially regarding the aur)
Welcome to Arch, btw.
02:15 I mean you don´t need to update if you don´t want to
Chances are there are things that break in the old update that got fixed in the new one and things in the new update that break.
Considering that you probably won't check each update if there are things that break (otherwise that would be an additional con) and not updating can be a serious security risk in the long term, i think this is a pretty bad argument.
+1 sub great vid you deserve 100k
Pop os with KDE... Hmmmmm
How's that?
So is it worth the hassle over Windows? Any advantages?
faster, bigger, stronger
i switched to arch from ubuntu and i have been using gnome. is plasma better?
plasma gives you more control whereas gnome is a little restrictive in what you can do. And plasma impliments new features way faster than gnome. i'd say try it out and see if you like it.
You should give River window manager a try
I don't use Arch BTW, but I do use Linux. MX to be exact😉
I use debian btw
Same I’m Debian User
0:30 omg Quaver mentioned
But can you install printers. I haven't moved from ubuntu 20 because i NEED the HP drivers from hplip to work.
yes
The only linux distros that I have used are pop os and mint. I daily drove mint on my laptop for a year or so. I also really like this style of content. I honestly want to make a channel similar to this one and you inspire me.
I'm gonna try it with my hp Pentium ,8gb ram, 480gb ssd i don't want to throw away this lap(I'm a win user and want to switch to linux)
new aaa gaming not just gaming .
Ok, so how did you play osu! on linix? Was it osu lazer? McOsu?
osu lazer, yes
I have the same wallpaper at 12:24
I don't get the appeal of tiling window managers. I guess some form of "mouse is an afterthought in this ui" can make sense when you are on a laptop with a crappy touchpad but not for my desktop.
Arch for new fun stuff. Slackware for stability.
Whats the song at 2:47?
soundcloud.com/leechplus/recap-56
@@Ryclic Thanks bro!
you are wanted to say : i spend week on instaling arch?
simply use archinstall command and its done in few minutes