In the defense of people who don't want to read the manual: The documentation of most software is utter garbage, arch manual/wiki is beautifully crafted and It's honestly pretty self-explanatory
Maybe Arch is for me... After like 4 months of mint, I wanted to free up some disk space - And also kinda... Got bored? Of how stable it was... Just felt that I still hadn't learned as much about Linux, as I'd thought I would have by now. So, I finally deleted all windows partitions, and moved my mint to the start of the disk from a live cd... And thus began the fun process of learning to create mounts, binds, use chroot, fsck, and then update + reinstall grub. Took 2 days to figure it all out, but now I know how
arch linux was the first distro i ever installed, I did it on real hardware, and I had very minimal terminal experience besides using vim and configuring vim on mac os. I followed a yt tutorial and I had no idea what I was doing. I installed xfce and it was fine. Im know an i3-gaps user and I think that I really understand it.
Yeeeeeeeah, I’ve been a victim of said meme as well. You can imagine the hilarity of realizing I could do 90% of the install from memory… having never installed Arch before.
I am half on arch half on mint. Some problems i have on one some on other. And it is mostly dev problems of not following the specification for config files, for cache. It would be a nice world if software devs could slow down and release stable and correct software
part of using Arch and asking questions have turned into me answering a good part of my own questions. I usually drop my own answer in forums after doing it too as seeing these Linux forums appended with "I fugured it out guys, thanks!" is absolutely infuriating when trying to troubleshoot with using other's knowledge and work too.
I moved to Arch from Debian after about a month of switching from Windows. It def wasn't as hard as I expected it to be considering all the memes I've been seeing for years now. I'd say if you have some basic Linux knowledge and are not scared of the command-line, just go for it. Or just do some installs on a VM to get comfortable with the process without the risk of bricking your pc and having to troubleshoot for days to get anything working again.
I just installed arch a few days ago as my first real foray into linux (I loaded ubuntu onto an older machine for laughs but never used it). Honestly, I think the greatest barrier to installing arch is just your motivation. If you're willing to sweat a little bit and "learn on the job" and have decent quantitative reasoning skills/reading comprehension, then it isn't so bad. This is especially true with a dual boot setup I've found. If you really really f yourself, you can avoid the boot media -> chroot rabbit hole and just nuke the partitions and start again. All in all, it was a really fun project for me, and I recommend it to anyone looking for a challenge.
@@YiminSun I use ly as my login manager and run bspwm in my xinitrc script. I have a video here if you'd like to learn more ruclips.net/video/ffOLe_AB81I/видео.html
I thought the same thing her like a private club for advanced users less than a month ago I realized that all of this is so not true when I installed vanilla arch + i3wm now I really hate Debian when Debian started pushing things like browser I can't uninstall firefox for example without apt install another one even if I don't want that yes I know I can put it in hold but forcing people to install a software !! and what's next ?!!
In the defense of people who don't want to read the manual: The documentation of most software is utter garbage, arch manual/wiki is beautifully crafted and It's honestly pretty self-explanatory
I found it relatively opaque
Maybe Arch is for me... After like 4 months of mint, I wanted to free up some disk space - And also kinda...
Got bored? Of how stable it was...
Just felt that I still hadn't learned as much about Linux, as I'd thought I would have by now.
So, I finally deleted all windows partitions, and moved my mint to the start of the disk from a live cd...
And thus began the fun process of learning to create mounts, binds, use chroot, fsck, and then update + reinstall grub.
Took 2 days to figure it all out, but now I know how
arch linux was the first distro i ever installed, I did it on real hardware, and I had very minimal terminal experience besides using vim and configuring vim on mac os. I followed a yt tutorial and I had no idea what I was doing. I installed xfce and it was fine. Im know an i3-gaps user and I think that I really understand it.
It's pretty satisfying just to jump into it and figure it out from there
Yeeeeeeeah, I’ve been a victim of said meme as well. You can imagine the hilarity of realizing I could do 90% of the install from memory… having never installed Arch before.
I am half on arch half on mint. Some problems i have on one some on other. And it is mostly dev problems of not following the specification for config files, for cache.
It would be a nice world if software devs could slow down and release stable and correct software
Yeah, my biggest problem is trying to clean up all the dotfiles from my home folder, haha
part of using Arch and asking questions have turned into me answering a good part of my own questions. I usually drop my own answer in forums after doing it too as seeing these Linux forums appended with "I fugured it out guys, thanks!" is absolutely infuriating when trying to troubleshoot with using other's knowledge and work too.
I moved to Arch from Debian after about a month of switching from Windows. It def wasn't as hard as I expected it to be considering all the memes I've been seeing for years now. I'd say if you have some basic Linux knowledge and are not scared of the command-line, just go for it. Or just do some installs on a VM to get comfortable with the process without the risk of bricking your pc and having to troubleshoot for days to get anything working again.
I just installed arch a few days ago as my first real foray into linux (I loaded ubuntu onto an older machine for laughs but never used it). Honestly, I think the greatest barrier to installing arch is just your motivation. If you're willing to sweat a little bit and "learn on the job" and have decent quantitative reasoning skills/reading comprehension, then it isn't so bad. This is especially true with a dual boot setup I've found. If you really really f yourself, you can avoid the boot media -> chroot rabbit hole and just nuke the partitions and start again. All in all, it was a really fun project for me, and I recommend it to anyone looking for a challenge.
Can you make a tutorial on installing bspwm on a base arch. Second time reinstalling arch linux today 😭
I am planning on making this in the near future
@@EricMurphyxyz nice! I managed to install bspwm on my third install today 😅 now I'm addicted to fixing everything and installing more stuff
@@YiminSun It's addicting
@@EricMurphyxyz how do you auto start bspwm? Do you auto start x or use something else
@@YiminSun I use ly as my login manager and run bspwm in my xinitrc script. I have a video here if you'd like to learn more ruclips.net/video/ffOLe_AB81I/видео.html
Arch User now 2024❤❤❤ bro I went through the same process of mentality just like you said and as of yesterday “I use arch btw”
Can you do video on picom setup pls🥺
Planning on doing one soon!
I've done a manual install on a VM so I can use archinstall
Real Chads use Artix.
im currently switching from mint to arch because i want to start using Nvim using latest update without flatpacks .....i hope i wont regret
by your profile picture, i guess you didnt regret it...
@@Trevas- :)
I am very proud to say I never installed ubuntu
I thought the same thing her like a private club for advanced users less than a month ago I realized that all of this is so not true when I installed vanilla arch + i3wm now I really hate Debian when Debian started pushing things like browser I can't uninstall firefox for example without apt install another one even if I don't want that yes I know I can put it in hold but forcing people to install a software !! and what's next ?!!
Agreed, using Arch is a lot less annoying than other distros
"arch is hard"
Yea if don't know how to read docs / or have crow level iq
Have you ever made an Arch video without criticizing Ubuntu??? Boring.
Yes it is lol.
Don't cry , but there are vanilla Arch distros that use Calamares as the installer. So even a moron could install Arch. So much for elitism.