10 Things to Do After Installing Arch Linux (2023)

[@AverageLinuxUser]

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[@ronanru]

The first thing should be: Brag to everybody around about it and add "I use Arch btw" to your bio.

[@myhandlehasbeenmishandled]

That was the first thing that crossed my mind. I never used Arch but if I did that would be the first thing I would add to my LinkedIn. I don't even know why.

[@ThisPageIntentionallyLeftBlank]

Yes. Exactly.

[@ZeroEraYT]

​@@myhandlehasbeenmishandledjust installing it is a whole achievement, maybe the only one that matters lol.

[@ZZS_ZigZag]

and what about using neofetch?

[@AverageLinuxUser]

Blog-post with all the commands: averagelinuxuser.com/arch-linux-after-install/

[@draugr7693]

Another thing i highly recommend is using the Chaotic AUR which allows you to install AUR packages that are already compiled for you which saves a ton of time cos some AUR packages can take hours to compile even with a powerful PC.

[@cutiepielonely]

yes pamac or yaru are highly recommended

[@freevbucks8019]

Hours? What the hell are you running this on?

[@draugr7693]

@@freevbucks8019 I was using Arch on my gaming PC for a while which at the time had a Ryzen 5 5600X, RX 5700XT, 32GB RAM (3200MHz). Most packages only took a few minutes to compile but some such as the Xanmod kernel for example took hours (can't remember how long exactly i just remember it took ages).

[@freevbucks8019]

@@draugr7693 Jesus christ. What's it for?

[@rino19ny]

you're doing something wrong. kernel compiles doesn't take hours!

[@MyReviews_karkan]

I just installed Endeavor OS on a desktop I just got, and this video is just in time :) Thanks, man.

[@marshallhughes4514]

I don't understand. What does Endeavor have to do with Arch? Is there a connection? thanks.

[@Vantesh]

@@marshallhughes4514 yes endeavor is based on arch basically just customized arch

[@ArniesTech]

Awesome to see you back 💪🙏

[@RetArm]

Congratulation on reaching 100k subscribers!!!!

[@vinvvinv7460]

Hi, can you please make a video explaining when and why these files are used in simple terms /etc/resolve.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/nsswitch.conf, and /etc/named.conf if you can show a practical usage it will be great. Please its a request. Please do reply

[@rino19ny]

RTFM

[@leonbishop7404]

are there any good firewalls that can enforce rules per-program?

[@t.b.s4478]

Thank you👍

[@Euforia706]

I have a question. ¿Do I need to install some antivirus to mi archlinux machine? Like which one?

[@swagmuffin9000]

I have a ritual i go through when installing it, and other distros. It's muscle memory now

[@sherakhela4044]

Superb

[@Quasarsoft]

is there any way updating to 6.3 kernel in arch?

[@kanjinha]

Hello, have a question, can you use the 3-finger-click mouse in Xfce as you do in gnome? Find it difficult to use xfce on my laptop without a mouse. Great videos you have, thank you

[@simpan197]

You can do that in every environment (or just a wm) Assuming you're talking about touchpad gestures and that the drivers for your system supports it

[@hello_iam_potato]

Have u checked libgestures?

[@kanjinha]

@@simpan197 do you know any tutorial? (I'm a newbie sorry)

[@kanjinha]

@@hello_iam_potato no but thanks for suggesting. Will Google it to see what that is.

[@simpan197]

@@kanjinha not off the top of my head, but something like reading the arch wiki on libinput should help You can also check the xfce settings (I don't remember what it contains anymore)

[@monsterzero9456]

does this apply to artix as well?

[@ordinarryalien]

If you can do something in Arch, you can most probably do it in another Arch-based distro.

[@Redwan777]

Use the neofetch command every 2 minutes

[@SharunKumar]

Not a single neofetch step 👀

[@experticus9901]

lol as someone said the first thing should be to brag, so, everyone, 'sudo pacman -S neofetch fastfetch uwufetch' lmfao

[@billybraquemard1]

There have I suppose always a few who like to build their own home, brick by brick ... others just buy one ready made.

[@rosehacksyoutube]

1. Tell everyone I’m using arch now.. Check! ✅

[@kt3152]

ILoveCandy - прикольний прикол. Ще не вистачає "вака-вака" звуку

[@randomdamian]

6:00 Sorry to say but this is really stupid, I dumped Windows to have less bloat and this for example is bloat.

[@Gaga4Parma]

Wut?!?!😂

[@rino19ny]

you're using nano!!!.. aaahhh

[@AverageLinuxUser]

I guess you use vim ))

[@HendrikMans]

11. Cry because you're single

First thing to do when you install arch is to wipe your drive and install windows....

[@AbramsonChannel]

You could also use such terminal environment frameworks as oh-my-zsh or P10k to make ur terminal even more custom and flexible

[@haralambov]

Right on time! Just made a fresh Arch install. Keep up the good work. Cheers!

[@AverageLinuxUser]

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[@zoltan1953]

I don't think you should include pkgstats as an "essential program", but if you're going to include it then you should at least let your viewers know that it's a telemetry background service. Other than that, great video. 👍

[@dmiracle74]

The 11th thing to do is pray it doesn't break after you update it.😂

[@lazyw1zard]

you should add your (amd/intel) -ucode.img to your bootloader, also ufw didnt work properly if iptables.service disabled

[@matthewlathum9312]

Why after command sudo pacman -Syu I have many many annoying request for example relace attica with ...

[@qandak]

FYI, it's 2023 out there and it's realy hard to find any non-UEFI old hardware. So, there is no need to install GRUB anymore (and ruine already installed bootloaders). You can easily create a dedicated EFI partiton for your OS and create a separate loader by systemd-boot or make UEFI load linux directly by creating a loader with efibootmgr.

[@HaramLifestyles]

by far the best post-install guide

[@pikazap6672]

1. type neofetch in terminal, found out it doesnt work 2. go back to windows

[@MrWARRIORMONKS]

1. Post that you're using Arch on a forum for credit, but nobody cares. 2. Use Arch Linux for a week. 3. Install OpenBSD because that is what the cooler people are doing now. Arch Linux is really very 2019 and it can be argued to be easier to use than Windows 11 at this point.

[@inopsek]

1 - btw i followed a tutorial 2 - upgrade 3 - uninstall because can't figure out why it's broke.

[@igrewold]

BSD is tough, it meant for admins & IT learners But maybe Ghost BSD or Dragonfly BSD better for user along with having ebook or reading/viewing documents/tutorials

[@MrWARRIORMONKS]

​@@igrewold Netflix and Pfsense and many other companies run on BSD, so BSD admin skills are great to have. On the Desktop it is about where Linux was in 2007, but stil fairly usable. I have NomadBSD running on a cheap Chinese laptop and works fine. But yea, I'm not elite enough to use OpenBSD. I do IT for a career, so the hobbyist headache is not for me.

[@cutiepielonely]

or use whatever distro you like without being so insecure

[@MrWARRIORMONKS]

@@cutiepielonely I"m making fun of the memes man... and funnier if people ARE insecure about their OS.

[@tridens6708]

To fast useless for beginner help😢

[@justincase9471]

2 things to do after installing Arch Linux: 1. Go on the internet and proudly state you are using Arch 2. Reinstall the machine with a proper distro like Fedora or Debian

[@nickn27]

Both of these are far inferior to arch.

[@Zwygi49]

I discovered your channel and first want to thank you for all the helpful information on different distro's and especially on your installations and what to do after.. videos. I have a question you might have some recommendations. I switched 100% to Linux 2 years and tried different distro's and had regularly problems with my brother printer (type mfc-j5930dw), as brother deliver an install scrip for deb & rpm it works fine on Debian but not always on Ubuntu... I think about buying now a new network printer (based on what I found on the net, I tempt to go for an HP office jet pro)... Do you have any recommendation or own experience on what brand/model have the best Linux support? thanks in advance for any suggestion and again thank you for your work on promoting Linux.

[@AverageLinuxUser]

I do not have that much experience with printers. I have had a few printers so far and they all worked fine with Linux. I have had some issue with network printing in shared printer at work. It required authentication for printing and it did not work out of the box, but I was able to fix it. HP printers should work. There is official support from HP according to their website. Just google the model for problems with linux before you buy it. FYI, I use HP LaserJet Pro MFP M130fw right now. I cannot say anything particular about this model. I got it for free and it works.

[@SeDi343]

what desktop manager is this?

[@privacyIsKing]

What a waste of space on the internet

[@WilliamLawrence7]

way to fast through many parts, like the automatic cache cleaning, spent several minutes trying to slow down the video before your cli jumps so far down your command is lost, then got some no new privileges error so I couldn't even run it, nor did you simply provide a basic default command line to delete the cache, which mine was nearly 6 GB, so while it was good to learn this, I'm left going somewhere else for effective information on how to manage it. Also, first half of the video is setting up very basic schemes for the terminal interface, even though just about every arch distro I've used comes with those configurations already enabled, but I suppose if you did the bare bones basic arch installer it would be helpful, just seems like a lot of time was spent on pretty useless info for the most users of Arch, i.e. manjaro, xero, and numerous other distros., and yet info that would be more useful you blazed right through and didn't provide any troubleshooting, nor alternative, nor default methods to execute the same functions.

[@maximus6728]

This man is just a saver

[@sanjunandi1627]

Hello SIr , I am following your videos & blog for so long for linux learning. I have installed Arch Linux with xfce desktop , setted up most of the things but having an issue where I can't extract or create archive. I have xarchiver & thunar-archive-plugin both installed but still having the same issue where it says " sorry this archive format is not supported , the proper archiver isn't installed." I tried searching on google but the process isn't explained clearly anywhere. Please help, Thank You

[@theopinion9452]

I can't understand when in the first section he says "Ctrl..WHAT??.

[@imanish0607]

Can anybody help me out. M stuck on bsh color step. How to move bash files into system folders 2:18 . He didnt tell properly

[@garynet20]

Thank yoiu

[@sandhilt]

I prefer paru, have a great performance. I use topgrade too, upgrade the system.

[@mesbahuddin5328]

Would you kindly demonstrate setting up a VPN service!

[@5gramwood644]

the last video i watched was useless fluff about themes for ages. good to see he actually makes content.

[@igrewold]

Great tips man, thanks it seems some of the tricks also work on arch derivatives (manjaro, garuda...etc.)

[@sterkriger2572]

Thing number 0: tell every one that you use Arch

[@yaroslav7328]

Glad to see you're back! I like your channel very much. Thanks!

[@LacerdaJPF]

thank you friend, good work.

[@3DSFanforlife]

To install from yay do you need to be in the yay directory?

[@danielrodrigoalegriasallo6479]

Didnt know about the microcode one, ty.

[@leftoverture1976]

Awesome, thanks for this! Cheers!

[@mathieuberthalay21]

Thank you for your video

[@espinhudobr]

Do I need to install a codec to see the pictures or the preview of the pictures?

[@imanish0607]

Can u tell me wht to do after unzipping bash files. He didnt tell properly. M stuck . Dont know how to move those files into system folder 2:25

[@developerjavalinux]

😁💯

[@aloneer0529]

Glad to see you back!

[@plutorocks1]

Sending prayers to our families in Palestine and Ukraine

[@gandalf8216]

I know how to use Unix and Linux, both. But can someone explain to me, why systemd? Why that bloat? Linux had so much potential, and then corporately educated know-it-alls ruined everything. But why adopt it? What was wrong with key=value configuration files? Why include complexity where none was needed? Why, why, Mr. Anderson, why!?

[@grenvillephillips6998]

Make sure you enjoy installing Arch, because sooner or later you are going to have to do it again. It breaks surprisingly often.

[@vilhokivihalme9878]

I have never heard anyone break their arch system so that it has to be reinstalled.

[@Seb0927]

I broke it the first time installing Visual Studio. This is accurate for me lol

[@ordinarryalien]

*11.* After experiencing crashes and bugs, install a more stable distro like Pop or Mint.

[@cutiepielonely]

or learn how to read wiki & fix them

[@ordinarryalien]

@@cutiepielonely I know how to fix things. There's nothing wrong with wanting a distro that just works. I love Arch, but I don't have time for it anymore.

[@monsterzero9456]

@@ordinarryalien what other "just werkz" distros would you recommend?

[@ordinarryalien]

@@monsterzero9456 openSUSE Tumbleweed, Zorin OS, MX Linux. If you want more: Debian, Elemantary OS, Fedora, Linux Lite, Ubuntu flavours (Lubuntu, Xubuntu etc.). There's also a new distro named Vanilla OS.

[@monsterzero9456]

@@ordinarryalien thanks do all these run on systemd?

[@Soromeister]

Hi, I see you're using either Arch, or some Ubuntu variant and always talk about these. Have you ever considered using something simpler like Fedora or RHEL? Also, what do you think about NixOS?

[@Z-add]

I'm surprised uninstalling isn't recommended.

[@dcfuksurmom]

Usually the first thing I do is install the chaotic aur repository and yay for the few things that aren't built by the chaotic aur repository