The ARCH LINUX Experience
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- Exploring Arch Linux with KDE Plasma
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Just found out that holding shift while pressing the like button gives you a cool animation
_cries in mobile_
liar !!!!!!?!?!?!?!!?![pf[pqoefoiavbs]qwvinw]vinaevio"
you lied to us
@@gusta9754 correct
just found out there are 3 dots next to the comment and whne i click on them wHIle Holding "shift" it GIves you option to report this comment for misinformation
Correct title: The KDE experience
The KDE experience: Extreme bloat
@@markwilson3326tell me you use Arch without telling me you use Arch btw
@@markwilson3326 *The GNOME experience: Extreme bloat
@@markwilson3326 And even with all the "bloat" it still uses less RAM than GNOME.
kde seems really beautiful, im a beginner at linux so should i switch to KDE Plasma 3 arch?
"I'm spending way too much time in the seetings".
Welcome to KDE
Welcome to hyprland
As a KDE and Hyprland users,
it's so cool to be able to change everything though
Me in every OS lmao
wait until he find about windows managers.
@kudou9243 One of the first things I did when I switched to i3 was create a dedicated terminal workspace. I was like "I'll barely use it". I almost never leave it. I haven't closed my config file in 36 hours. help
Arch Experience ❌
KDE Experience ✅
its mostly both
KDE is WORSE ....I kind of understand using arch, BUT kde .............who on earth wants that bloated rubbish?
@@jimw7916 bruh?
kde is the best Desktop envirnoment
its also got the best software suite
you wouldnt call it bloated unless you daily drive a twm
@@jimw7916 shut up kde is great i use it
@@jimw7916 me, i want that bloated rubbish, leave my wobbly windows and sparkly cursor alone :c
"Pixelated icon bounces on cursor"
I am sold
something-something they should switch to hyprcursor, because xcursos is just outdated.
Wayland Vector graphics Cursor subsystem already near finished and in testing, maybe even fully working, but now people need to start making cursors in vector drawing programs like the wicked cool Inkscape, and I'm sure many will be available in the near future.
You can do crap loads of stuff in and with Linux you would never even explore in Windows because it could cost you a small fortune, and you have full control over every aspect, so if a pixilated cursor is a deal breaker, then you don't deserve Linux anyhow!
You now legally need to tell everyone you know that you use Arch Linux.
i use arch btw
I use arch btw
i use arch btw
i use windows btw
I use Arch, btw.
You can now officially say I use arch btw, but next is gentoo and LFS
oh god. please dont make him do this
Then LFS
@@personi6241 After Linux From Scratch, he will use the hardest Linux distro even the greasiest powerusers of LFS and Gentoo fear.
Hannah Montana Linux.
(with a tiling WM, to step it up a notch)
after lfs he makes his own completely from scratch (kernel and all)
Kowalski is now an official mascot of arch for me.
Same
Linux, but mildly unhinged
Xenia is the best
Squid girl :(
Arch? The final boss?
Gentoo wants to throw hands and LFS is staring menacingly from the distance
Gentoo is easier to be fair
It is like a JRPG, you THINK Arch is the final boss, but it has three more forms.
Nix, Gentoo and LFS lmao
@@uis246i think gentoo is harder since it requires compiling and using things like useflags and knowing some info for the compiler but i am also a arch user for like 3 years thats only tried gentoo twice. So idk
@@linuxramblingproductions8554 I am a gentoo user and think arch users are crazy masochists
@@twenty-fifth420NixOS is a distro that forces you to keep on learning. you cannot master it. nixpkgs is a labyrinth of spaghetti code.
Two big issues you've run into are 1) you didn't enable the multilib in the Pacman repository which is why you kept getting an error installing steam and other apps. 2) you installed the bare minimum Kde package which has a lot of things pre-installed such as spectical completely missing, the default Kde screen shot program. You're actually missing so many defaults because of this.
As gar as i remember, there isn't a non-minimal kde package, you have plasma and kde-apps, and he simply didn't install kde-apps
@@Adiee5Priv There is a meta package for all of the kde stuff. Same as with GNOME.
plasma-meta (big) and plasma-desktop (smol)
You have option Full Kde install or Basic Kde
@@dampintellect plasma-meta isn't as big as you think
btw, if you freshly install any linux, it's best practice to update it (same as on windows). on arch, this is
sudo pacman -Syu
while on mint it's
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
this is probably why you didn't "find the packages", because the information that these packages exist needs to be downloaded with that command
He probably didn't have multilib enabled
@@seezon6962Yeah, that's why he couldn't install steam in the first place
Getting used to do a quick read of the relevant arch wiki page is very helpful
@@seezon6962 It was literally written on that wiki page he had open. Arch requires reading - otherwise you'll break it very easily.
For me it's
sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm ; flatpak update -y
0:43 ah yes.. my favorite package manager, sudo
lol, didn't even see that
@@bogxd I think the reason you weren’t able to install Steam, the calculator, or Spotify through pacman was because you didn’t enable the multilib repository in your pacman.conf, which has most of pacman’s packages but is disabled by default
That shit had me rolling
LOL
I am sure that 99% of this video's viewers are Linux users
sudo touch grass
Make that 98%!
I’m just a Windows user who watches Linux videos for fun (and maybe will switch in the future)
I don’t care to switch that much it’d just be impractical for me but these videos are somewhat fun to watch
that's the point no?
If you wanted more KDE Apps, installing kde-applications installs the full suite of apps
Including basic stuff like screenshots, etc
There's kde-system-meta, kde-utilities-meta, etc; for different sets of kde apps too, right?
keep it up with the linux content, we truly love it. maybe you will build gentoo next.
LFS or he's just a script kiddie!
have some mercy
I've never been so entertained from a simple distro review
this guy changes his OS every week. that's a top-tier content there
It's called distrohopping. All of us have it at some point
@@unicorn_tamer and I cant quit hopping :(
Hoppetitus we call that.
The reason why you kept getting "MANUAL INTERVENTION REQUIRED" notification is most likely because you never did a system wide update. I assume the problem specifically would be solved by package database refreshing that would happen durring such an update.
In simple terms your PC had an old reference to the AUR databases, meaning outdated, meaning "yay" was very confused when trying to call out to the out of date AUR repositories.
The command for arch based distros is "sudo pacman -Syu".
-S flag stands for "sync", it is the flag that actually allows you to grab, download, a package from AUR or any other repository or source. Not to be confused with lowercase -s flag which stands for "search". It can be used or example in "sudo pacman -Ss " to search for a package that contains a specific term in, for exmple, it's description.
-y flag is the one that ensures that you're up to date with actual repositories you are trying to download a package from"
-u flag is simply a system-wide update of all pacakages installed through pacman
NOTE: The exact same syntax applies for "yay" but do also note that "pacman" and "yay" are different tools that need to be updated separtly.
i hate doing this so much, i wish distros were managed by not clinically insane people
The AUR and the official arch repos are different things... Also yay is just a wrapper for pacman with added functionality of being able to install AUR packages seamlessly.
yes!
And the "manual intervention required" stuff is probably due to uninstalled dependencies, which is the problem of the AUR package.
yay -Syu will update both pacman packages and also check for AUR updates. Effectively removing the need to interact with pacman most of the time.
Great video, but please try and use official KDE applications, it hurts me. 😭 Also you can fix the Steam issue by enabling the Multilib repository. Many of the packages you installed can be found in normal repositories too.
KDE is literally most advanced desktop environment
true, now he needs to evolve into window managers
hyprland better imo
@@AbovHexanchus-qj7cv hyprland is my fav windows manager BTW obv after dwm
i prefer sway
@@switchblade6226 I've used sway and it's also very fast and light weight
"Amazed at how many things you can customize in linux"
True but also you chose the correct DE
In my opinion Gnome is better, but I definitely see why KDE rocks. I love KDE myself too but just prefer a priced Gnome for daily work! I love KDE's customizability but I feel Gnome is neater, more uniform, just as easilbly be customized. and easier to write GUIs for. I am open to anything the awesome folks developing KDE have to offer.
@@abinaash8453 I guess you could argue one is better than the other depending on the person/type of use? But an overall KDE is better imo. A lot of customization or no customization, both are usable. No custom, looks just like windows (kinda). Custom looks however you want it to look (kinda).
Gnome does not have bars for certain programs, and has theming and stuff not baked in (as far as I know or my understanding, mind you). Amongst other things. The workflow for me is not good and it's confusing for some reason.
But like I said, different strokes for different folks. (In my OC i was just messing)
I think your KDE Plasma installation is incomplete. But for a new user, you're doing really good (and good mistakes :D) and your videos and humor are great.
KDE Plasma default screenshot utility : spectacle
KDE Plasma default PDF viewer : okular
KDE Plasma default image viewer : Gwenview
Personal opinion : avoid AUR when you can, use it only if required.
For Gaming you have something like CachyOS which is an Archlinux easier to install and gaming oriented.
(I don't game on Linux, I'm a console gamer)
I agree with your AUR opinion but I would also say check out flathub before AUR, if the package isn't on flathub then check AUR
spectacle is crap people usually replace it with flameshot
@@alvin9124 it has become pretty nice lately. I recently changed back from flameshot
@@alvin9124 Ahah no, they dont.
@@alvin9124 spectacle is a perfect screenshot tool
flameshot is only for the rare situations where you need annotations
We need the HYPRLAND experience next
Ooh yes, that is much more fun than installing Gentoo or LFS
the one with the nazi dev?
@@tauon_ Yea no fuck these hyprland losers
yes yes yes!! like this so he can see!
this is a great tiling window manager, bog
33:30 Hope now you appreciate the Apply functionality 😆
Some points I'd like to highlight:
- Screenshot apps don't work correctly in KDE 6 because KDE 6 is still in Beta (or Alpha?). I had the same problem without any display scaling.
- You couldn't uninstall "calculator" because the package name was "gnome-calculator", but the display name was "Calculator". You can think of it the Windows way, kinda: "Steam" is the display name you see in the start menu, but the actual program behind it is "steam.exe". Same thing, different way way of doing it.
- Your mouse cursor changed between apps because not all Linux apps are built the same. You're currently on KDE, but there are a bunch more desktops, like Cinnamon (the one you used with Linux Mint). Cinnamon is based on the GNOME desktop, and uses a GNOME engine behind the scenes to draw stuff on the screen. That engine also has its own (or uses some) theming engine, which only works for GNOME-based apps. KDE's and GNOME's theming engine(s) are practically incompatible with each other, which is why some apps might seem out of place and behave differently than "native KDE apps". In the case of the Calculator, the app just forced the GNOME theming onto your KDE desktop, so to speak. Not all GNOME apps force their themes onto KDE and the same goes vice versa. The Calculator app probably did because it was a Flatpak application, which is probably worth another exploration video of its own. But the point is that Flatpak apps come with the theme the developer (or Flatpak maintainer) wants the application to have. So if the Flatpak app is a GNOME-based one, it will force a GNOME theme onto it (libadwaita), if it's a KDE app, it will force a KDE theme onto it.
The whole theming thing is a discussion that has been going on for ages now. GNOME says "there's only one theme 'ecosystem' and that's libadwaita". KDE says "I don't care which app uses which theme, I'll just draw whatever the user set and whatever the application allows". Other desktops mainly go the KDE way, GNOME is kind of an outlier in this regard. What GNOME does makes sense if you take a step back and reiterate over your experience with the Calculator app, for example. The way the GNOME theme is forced means "all apps look and behave the same" (at least that's the goal). Compare that to Windows and its 10 different ways of theming. You have "legacy/classic" themes (Windows 95 through 2000), "Aero" themes (Windows Vista/7/8) and "UWP" themes (starting from Windows 10). The good thing is that Microsoft wants to innovate and use their new stuff. The bad thing is, they can't completely change the UI of Windows because that would basically drive all sysadmins of all companies in the industry insane. This is why Windows has like 100 themes built into it and every application looks different, but at the same time legacy applications like the Control Panel still have to remain to please the industry so to speak. Granted, the state Windows currently is in is worse than if they just never listened to anybody in the industry and forced UWP onto everything - but then again, nobody would update Windows (Servers) anymore and would eventually move away from it. GNOME does it much better in my opinion, in this regard. But GNOME doesn't do users any favors because Linux users want to customize their desktop, and GNOME limits this freedom a whole lot.
With Arch and KDE you've basically opened the door to basically the most freedom you can get with Linux as an ecosystem. That's a very good thing, but it can really feel weird to new users who don't understand the different desktops, theming engines/ecosystems, Flatpaks, and whatever else have you.
KDE Plasma 6.0 official has been out and running on my computer for months, and I upgraded to 6.1 a few days ago, and I had no issues whatsoever with the screen shot app! Many of the scaling issues had to do with Wayland and NVIDIA drivers, none of which KDE makes, and all that is also fixed!
Did you just wake up from a 6 month coma?
@@Bob-of-Zoid what?! I used Arch a couple weeks ago with KDE 6 (don't know if it was 6.0 or 6.1). And I had that issue with taking screenshots (at least with Wayland). Googled it up and lots of other people also had this issue. Not sure what you're talking about.
I also specifically said that it's NOT a display scaling issue.
@@Bob-of-Zoid also you're the perfect example of a toxic Linux community member.
If you forget to use sudo you can always use the command "sudo !!". The "!" invokes your bash history of which you could specify a number such as "!42" and it will use the command at line 42 in your history. The second ! will use your last command run. Very useful and I find myself using quite regularly.
you can also install 'fuck', which intelligently corrects mistyped commands
@@paultapping9510 I though you would say something like
alias fuck='sudo'
alias please='sudo'
Can't wait for the Gentoo video
ngl, it's kinda cute to see the next generation find all the compositing effects like wobbly windows that have been a thing for as long as I can remember and at least as long as I've been using linux professionally(which is.. a long time.. It's like almost 2 decades and now I feel old)
When the task is to explore settings quickly but your desktop environment is KDE: Impossible!
GREAT content man. Love your sense of humor and determination to troubleshoot issues. Had me DYING with the damn banana cursor and I look forward to future videos!
All jokes aside, this is one of the most informative videos regarding kde plasma I've seen so far, normally people just do the basics without the exploration and it sucks ! Even though I've been using kde for almost a year now, I actually learned something that'll change the way I use my desktop. After I've seen this, I feel like I hate myself for not exploring what plasma have to offer. You've just earned another sub ! Hope many more people see this vid, no matter whether they are Linux beginners or more advanced users, there's always more to learn !
Bog is my favourite time of the day.
Bog is like desktop KDE environment. 🤿💡🍺🍺⏱🤿🏛
Bog is not love linux arch💀💀🏨🔨🏨🔨🔨🔨.
Bog is love KDE environment desktop ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
I agree
This fella is somehow a breath of fresh air for me. I've watched all the videos in their whole Linux saga, and they're all like half-an-hour long videos and yet.. I didn't skip one bit.. that's new.. How do you do this?! Excited for more :3
FYI for anyone looking to get into Arch with KDE Plasma like this, you can skip the rough install if that's not your thing by just installing EndeavourOS. If you use the BTRFS file system and install snapper, your system will be almost bulletproof.
I would certainly recommend using archinstall over endeavor
I've been using EndeavorOS for 6 months now and it's 100% worth it, used to run Arch raw before but there's like no upside in that for me, I still get to tweak and configure to my hearts contempt but it's way simpler to install haha
Love your vids, laughed so much. These are best system reviews videos you can find. Subbed and liked!
21:15 you installed a calculator package that is meant for gnome
package managers are agnostic when it comes to software it doesnt care what desktop enviroment you use
so keep in mind you install stuff specific to KDE and not gnome or vice versa on gnome
a way to know which application is for what a general hint would be:
KDE is made on the Qte framework
Gnome is made on the Gtk framework
so pick Qte specific applications on kde, you can install GTK instead but as you saw you had dependancies issues installing mirage because you arent on gnome where most of those dependancies are on to top it off you get the kinds of visual inconsistencies like the calculator application
Arch Linux is that Miniboss before the main boss. The true main boss is Gentoo.
LFS would like a word
@@bluein_ nah lfs is like the impossible super secret dlc boss you have to read a 50 page guide to even get to
Actually is the KDE experience, you can do the same on Fedora KDE, Debian KDE, NixOS KDE, Void KDE, Gentoo KDE.
If you use Arch with KDE recommend EndeavorOS or Garuda KDE lote, it's well configured and has not bloatware.
Out of Arch I will use Fedora or Debian.
Is there a linux distribution *with* bloatware? Maybe "ubuntu"?
@@girlmaya6818not actually bloatware like windows but many distros are heavily modified with a lot of preinstalled packages like Garuda or Nobara for gaming.
Some Debian based like Ubuntu or Kali, and maybe others.
I just like vanilla desktop and for me KDE, then I install my favorite apps and add the config files.
it is a bit of an arch experience as well
cause he dealt a lot with the package manager
also the arch varient for kde comes with a lot of apps missing in the kde suite
love it bro! thanks
this guy managed to understand how cube works in seconds while it took hours for brodie
It's called editing 😁
1. Probably incorrect.
2. That's people. Inconsistent.
3. But if it would be correct, still pretty funny.
He already had an idea what it was, that's why.
Oh nice, it's part 2
Keep it up!
The reason your sensitivity changes based on the resolution you set is because mouse sensitivity is measured in dots per inch (I call it pixels per inch) so if you are at 800 dpi every inch you move your mouse your mouse cursor will move 800 pixels. That means if you have a lower resolution, the cursor will move a larger percentage of the screen if you move your mouse the same distance both times.
I really liked your narrative style, it's very cute and funny
I really enjoy your OS review content and have become addicted to it recently. trying to add the following techniques: 1. File transfer from PC to hard disk, hard disk to PC, and PC to mobile, 2. OS boot speed improvement, and 3. OS disk occupied space. Thank you!
your video inspired me to install arch linux, and i thank you for that
good luck :0
Steam now has built in game recording as of today with the latest client beta. And it works beautifully on Linux, even Steam Deck.
This is SO good information when developing a user experience. It is basically user testing on steroids. I assume that KDE doesn't have the resources to do this kind of testing (it doesn't feel like it, at least), so this is amazing material!
These Linux videos start to looks so interesting and funny
The window manager experience next?
Might want to make a note or something that this is about the experience of _using_ the OS and rather than that of Installing it. I was completely convinced this was a reupload for view harvesting at first, especially given both videos have the same length and very similar intros.
this has been an amazing video! dig it a lot
Nah. Incorrect title.
This was hands down the best AD for KDE and Arch
Trust me if Arch is the hardest you cannot describe LFS :)
LFS: When you want to invent problems for yourself cause life hasn't given you enough
LFS isn't a distro.
Therefore Arch is still the hardest distro to install.
@@grae5702 ever heard of gentoo?
@@grae5702gentoo?
@@grae5702 Gentoo? NixOS?
You didn't need to install a separate image viewer and screenshot tool, KDE Plasma already has those.
yes but I think he installed plasma-desktop meta-package, which came with almost no additional apps preinstalled.... anyway he should update all the pavkages with pacman -Syu, and try to install plasma apps like spectacle for screenshots o gwenview as image viewer
@@shagof He a avoided software center at all costs, which is bad. It shows how the community represents to outsiders, so they think using gui solution is bad, degrading, or inferior.
@@user-xv8xh2ib6p being the "well ackshually", not recomending the gui is more because... there are many guis, so you can't really give someone good advice on how to do something if for example they are on discover and you only use gnome software, or whatever cinnamon uses, so in general giving terminal commands is more universal
What??? Then which version of kde i should get cuz i am planning to install linux as well @@shagof
@@user-xv8xh2ib6p Why is it bad?
Also their is a difference between flatpacks and what you get from pacman/aur.
Even without that, the command line is useful as well, why would it be bad for him to use it?
The next step is to include "i use arch btw" in every sentence you say and you've become a true arch user
This channel is expanding! 🎉🎉🎉
Ha! Install Gentoo!
found oglo in a random comment section
@@abdullahbinnur5592 Yep, you found me! XD
Is gentoo actually harder? I thought the only real difference was that emerge compiles (which isn’t even 100% true anymore lol) gentoo is stupid. Try LFS
@@BenjaminWheeler0510 Okay, first off, Gentoo is not stupid. I use Gentoo because it is way more stable, and has USE flags. Second, no... LFS is literally just copying and pasting the creator's hard work and calling it your own. (The creator himself said that.)
@@oglothenerd ok nerd
for KDE I'd recommend using spectacle instead of flameshot for screenshots. thats just my preference though, flameshot is pretty good too and its what I'm using at the moment
Imo neither are great, they both feel slow
@@girlmaya6818 they did out of the box for me, but they felt fast after a little tweaking
@@girlmaya6818 what do you mean slow?
spectacle is instant
one key board shortcut later, and the screenshot is in my clipboard
Glad you enjoyed KDE Plasma its come a long way
this was hilarious, well made!😂
lowkey wanna give linux a try after those three videos, congrats sir
also, this vid got posted as i was watching the other two lol
Just don't touch buggy kde, for your own sake. Try pure gnome or something. Fedora have everything backed as it should be, for example.
You should! Probably not something like arch, as it can be a little unstable at times if you don't know what you are doing.
I recommend mint, but view a lot of the comments from the mint video for mistakes and solutions to those mistakes.
You can look up guides online but make sure you know what you are pasting in does. I used to do it to look up package names, since they are sometimes confusing.
From the day you start, I'd recommend looking up some NixOS guides (even if you dont end up using the system, you can use it in a virtual machine for a while, just like how Bog did for arch), since for me, that seems like the best thing. If something breaks, you can easily roll back. Everything is just a single config file, so you can move it between systems. You can choose between stable and unstable/fast packages. (like mint, slower but more stable, for nix this is 6 months, for mint i think it's every major release, or like arch, fast but more buggy sometimes.)
don't listen to this guy you can experiment and remember there are plenty of options
Don't listen to delancre, KDE is nice, just choose the X11 session, it's more stable
KDE is great and should probably be your first choice if you're coming from windows
Hey. Atleast he said "One of the hardest operating systems" and not "THE hardest operating systems".
the hardest actually usable and supported operating system
great video! havent watched it yet but it looks cool
yes
I love how you're so amazed by the desktop effects like wobbly windows etc. which were available all the way back in 2006/2007 via Compiz xDD
Ok so you beat the Arch challenge... NixOS next?
As a long term Gnome user who jumped to WMs without trying KDE, now I see what's the hype is about. Currently at 17 mins marks of a 34min video and bro is still exploring KDE Settings. Great job KDE team.
isn't that a good thing tho? Being able to change stuff and play around in the settings?🤔
@@user-cy1rm5vb7i certainly. One of the reasons I shifted towards WMs.
@@user-cy1rm5vb7i Unless it was sarcasm, I thing he was saying it's agood thing.
@@laurii0512 🤷🤷🤷
Already excited for gentoo series
You know, I had forgotten about how many cool features Plasma has. I've been using it almost exclusively for 5 years.
Nice video again!
Notes and tips (I'll probably be less useful this time because I don't use KDE, display scaling, or play that game you do):
1. **KDE Settings:** KDE's settings does give you the options to configure lots of stuff, but it will only work on KDE apps (that integrate the libraries and stuff that link it in to the KDE settings and other KDE system features). This is why you cannot rebind Firefox keys in the KDE settings menu--it isn't developed by KDE (so it isn't built to integrate with it).
Ultimately it depends on the program you are using how or if you can bind the shortcuts. Programs that support/are made for Linux are generally better in this regard because the community tends to care more about it. In general programs (if they can be set) will be setup through a program and/or a config file that you can edit to make it work how you want.
2. Yeah the middle click thing is because there are multiple clipboard selections. The normal clipboard one you access with copy and paste and one called primary selection. It can be nice sometimes and some programs can use it to automatically do things when you select text instead of needing to copy and paste stuff. Pretty niche though so not many people actually know about/use it.
3. The weird purple line under the task bar is probably a compositing artifact. I don't use it so don't know what exactly you might try to fix it but you can probably search or report it as a bug and someone can probably help you.
4. Steam was not there in pacman because it is in a different repository that is disabled by default called multilib (it mentions this on the Arch wiki page you were on). Instructions for enabling it can also be found there.
As a side note the multlib repository is basically just for 32bit versions of software and some programs like Wine and Steam that have stuff requiring/running them. I think it is disabled by default because there might be 32 and 64 bit versions of some software so they want to make it harder to accidentally install the 32 bit version when you are on a 64 bit computer (just a guess).
5. **Uninstalling and how pacman works**
I generally use -Rs to uninstall stuff.
With VLC it was failing because VLC is used (is a dependency for) something else on the system. Fortunately for many users pacman will (unless you really force things) not run transactions (i.e. installs or uninstalls) that will leave something on your system broken because they are missing a (known) required dependency. ** In your case the message was saying it can't remove VLC because 'VLC' is listed as a required dependency of phonon-qt6-vlc (or something didn't read it lol). It won't remove VLC because phonon-qt6-vlc is still installed and needs VLC to work.
To get VLC to uninstall, you should generally just list both the thing you are trying to uninstall and any of the things that it is saying it will break (the things that depend on it).** E.g. if you are trying to uninstall package a and it says you can't because a is a required dependency of package b, then just do `pacman -Rs a b` so they are removed in the same transaction. If you really know what you are doing there are ways to make it cascade uninstall all the things that depend on anything you tell it to uninstall, but this could easily mess things up badly if you try it on the wrong thing so it is generally safer to avoid it.
6. **Calculator not showing up--pacman continued**: the display name of a program--especially the generic one like Calculator, Web Browser, or File Manager (and sometimes even the name of an executable)--is not necessarily the same as the package name.
In your case I think it is likely kcalc or kalc (remember that there are lots of calculators in the repository and they all need to have unique names so they can't all be 'calculator').
**How to figure out a package name using pacman** You could figure it out in lots of ways and some times it may be hard especially with really big wierd pacakages, but most of the time you can figure it out by searching the installed applications. Just use `pacman -Qs ` or in your specific case `pacman -Qs calc` or something and it searches for programs with calc (case insensitive) in both the name or description and you would be able to see what the name of the calculator you have installed is.
Btw the mnemonic for that command is Q[uery installed packages)] s[earch]. While we are here -Qi (info) is another useful one that gives the detials of a specific package instead of searching. The i and s options work on the -S version too just searching in all the apps in the repositories instead of just the ones on your computer. You can always look up more options and stuff in the man page or on the Wiki.
7. **Making your life in the shell easy by using fish as your shell** the command line might be hard to learn and remember as you are getting started. I suggest you try installing fish and setting it as the shell run in your terminal (should be in the settings for the default one or can be set in a config file for alacritty.
For basic stuff it is really great because you get nice tab completions by default for most common programs that normally come with little descriptions of what they mean/do. So you can for instance type `pacman -` and then press tab and it will show you all the options (both the long and short versions) and what they do.
See their website (fishshell.com) for more info and a very good manual (which can also be accessed in the browser directly from the shell when you use the `help` command.
Also, I bet you would like the fish_config command which opens a special (locally hosted don't worry lol) web interface that lets you customize the prompt and other stuff very easily with a GUI.
It is really very nice and I highly recommend it. Most of the stuff that works in bash or zsh works in fish, but some things that have kinda odd syntax in those (because of compatibility). It is really just better in most ways for interactive use and scripts that you don't need to be able to run on any random computer.
8. tessdata is a thing for tesseract which is an OCR (optical character recognition) thing. Choosing a provider on that thing was just selecting what languages you want the OCR for. It is used by mupdf (and other things) to let you copy text from PDF's when they are just images (without the text data embedded as well).
9. When you look for applications to do basic tasks a nice source is the Arch Wiki (yes of course it is lol). wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications In your case with an image viewer, you would go to the multimedia category and into Image viewers, in the category of graphical ones (as opposed to terminal or frame buffer ones) and you would have a whole list of them with the package name, a short description, and links to the website if you wanna see what it looks like before installing it.
**I would generally recommend only using the AUR when you don't have any good options in the normal repos** because it is more of a hassle and as you saw can have mixed results if you are just trying all sorts of random stuff. Use it when you already know you want a specific package and it is not available in other ways.
Also you can use `-Ss` (in pacman or yay) to search for things like image viewers directly.
10. Btw you are missing many default KDE apps. A lot more things would have been possible out of the box if you installed the kde-applications group (pacman -S kde-applications). Note there are tons of apps for all sorts of stuff in here so if you don't want everything, you can just install specific ones or sub-groups like kde-utilities or kde-graphics.
11. Quick AUR tips: the -git versions are generally compiled on your machine directly from the current version on the repo. The bin ones are precompiled versions (normally what I would try first unless I have a reason to compile it) if it doesn't have -git or -bin it can be either.
The diff option shows changes between the current version you have installed and the version you are installing.
Again try the normal repos first.
12. AUR manual intervention: I don't have much time and can't really read the logs so I can't say super confidently, but the divinci resolve one has an error with the mv command not being able to access a file in the .cache dir maybe a permission problem or something. Also it could just be a broken package so you would definitely need to trouble shoot a bit to figure out what is going on. I don't think I have ever had that problem lol.
13. Also just preemptive tip, remember to update (pacman -Syu) often it will prevent lots of problems. (Note that AUR stuff needs to be updated seperately). I can't go into all the stuff about the AUR now but really try to only use it when necessary (at least until you are a bit more experienced) because it can make things more complicated easily.
Hope these are helpful.
Uuu nice, thanks for all the tips!
@@bogxd you can also see the dependency tree using the pactree command found in the pacman-contrib package like this:
pactree -r vlc
vlc
└─phonon-qt6-vlc
└─phonon-qt6
├─dolphin
│ └─dolphin-plugins
├─dragon
...
For vlc in particular you will see that it's a dependency for plasma-workspace, the kde shell, so you can't remove it at all while using kde.
For screenshots, you just had to press Print Screen. Plasma already has a screenshot app. The reason your cursor is different is because the app you were running was a Gnome app, which has minor compatibility issues with the cursor
i dont think he has all kde apps preinstalled.
sudo pacman -S gwenview
I LOVE how easy it is to check and customize keyboard shortcuts in KDE; it's so useful. And I LOOOVE the way kwrite marks what is and isn't saved, too; it's a weird bonus for a Simple Editor to have but it's so unobtrusive, compared to like, notepad++ having a million settings that I don't want to use and none that I do... so nice
Arch Linux with KDE Plasma is the ultimate Swiss army knife of computing! I have been using them exclusively on all of my computers for over a decade now, because so far just nothing compares or comes close.
You showed me nothing new, and yet I loved every minute of it! Your narration style, especilly your sense of humor and the sound effects are well woth watching. Oh, and you could have used EndeavourOS to install Arch with one of many desktops but via a great installer. It comes with a selection of basic apps, and once installed which is wicked quick, you have all of the harder work behind you the easy way.
One more thing: A lot of what you said was great about Linux is Plasma specific and in few if any other DE's, and why it's such a freaking great Desktop Environment.
The only thing Gnome is good for is kicking out of the flower bed, down the driveway, onto the street, and watching cars run it over!
The KDE Plasma experience
tip: use -Syu not -S
and screenshot should be installed by default & bound to print screen button
also installing the whole kde suite would've given you all the apps you'd have needed
-Syu is system upgrade/upgrade all, -S is install. Different things. But -Sy should work
@@commander3494don't do -Sy, because that's a partial update. Do either -S or -Syu
@@commander3494 -Sy has a decent chance to break your system
very bad tip in arch its a good habit to check if there bugs in the newest update because its rolling release (note the grub incident) by using -u it will do a full system upgrade just use -Sy it installs the program and refreshes the mirror
@@commander3494 -Sy without -u is a recipe for a really borked Arch installation.
desktop environments arent the only visual environments out there. if you want to get your hands dirty and configure stuff, use an actual window manager like openbox, dwm, or some tiling window managers like i3 or dwm. you can acess these inside sddm (your login manager, the thing you use to login.
try ratpoison. good luck
OMG I AM WAITING FOR THISSSSSSS
Im watching and crying, seeing how he mixes GTK with QT
We all did that , no one explained these thing to us the first time , that and package providers , after using manjaro I end up installing stuff from apt snap flatpak the aur some .deb files and app images and I didn't even know that was a terrible thing to do
Imagine his experience though if he used qt apps in gnome
Has this video been reposted?
no
@@bogxd oops thought it was
This feels more like the KDE experience than the Arch experience x)
But it's always very nice to see some feedback and experience from someone trying it for the first time!
this is such a cool video
first keep it up more linux subbed now try gentoo haha windows key is called super key
Great content! I now know what it feels like to use KDE Plasma no regrets feelsgoodman! So much customization I like it!
Great video
wow that was really cool
This video is a good metaphor for the Linux experience of everyone I know who has tried to use Linux: there's hours of fun to be had messing around with settings, but ultimately, nothing of substance actually gets done.
You are amazing! I laughed a lot and even though I don´t use KDE, learned a couple of things. Thanks. Boing! 😀
With that many different settings, the apply button can be a godsend
- Scaling works way better because unlike Linux Mint you're likely in Wayland this time - unlike what Linux Mint uses, scaling is basically a standard thing now in Wayland-using environments.
- You're *2 releases late* to trying 'Oxygen Light' - it was called Air, and was yeeted in KDE Plasma 6.0 (honestly though, Air was mid).
*- Manual intervention is required*
wait ... "APPLY" !!
but seriously, best "walkthrough" ever made, no joke!
Amazing he is doing this
Here some medals to the designers and developers maintaining that monster of settings, use cases, thousands of customization combinations 🏅🏅🏅🏅
Hey! cool video!
As a next one, you could try a tiling WM like hyprland! Or maybe even NixOS, i feel like it's the best as long as you have the storage.
About 8:10: The desktops are all in one line, because you can have multiple rows of virtual desktops in Plasma. In the settings for virtual desktops on the top right, you can set how many rows you want, so you can have one virtual desktop below/above another.
FOR Some Reason, Your Videos Has Increased By Span Time From 30 Seconds To 34 Minutes And 29 Seconds. Good Job Mate! We Have Good Engaging RUclipsrs. God Bless You Brother.
This got me really excited about the desktop environment. Only to remind me why I still use windows.
oh man u are just make me memorize the time i played with all the customization in win98 SE
I only have limited experience with Linux and PlasmaKDE, and as much of a headache Linux is sometimes, it's also suuuuper mind blowing what can be done with it. It was really fun to explore all the settings and seeing what each one would do.
16 minutes in and it already feels so much like windows, I might even want to switch if it keeps up being this promising
Hey I was a Arch user who really knows everything to make things right for my Pentium Desktop PC!
Very interesting video!