Big Linux: it's really complicated...

[@leonardo.muricy]

BigLinux is focused on new users (accessibility as you said). So their package manager does not come with the AUR, instead being focused on official repos and having also the easy option to include flatpak or snap. I'm an arch user, but the AUR is anything but user friendly. I have had many errors installing through yay related to errors on pckgbuild script, integrity validation, etc. So it makes a lot of sense for Big Linux to fork Manjaro, because their official repository is bigger and they already have user friendly tools. Big Linux get these tools and include their own. In the end, a beginner user will have bleeding edge packages and the system will be extremely easy do use. If you go to the terminal and start using AUR, the system will break, especially because the app version of arch repository will be different.

[@asunavk69]

AUR imo is a complement to arch, i dont even get the people that favour AUR or AUR helpers over pacman and repo packages, truly a bold move and then they are surprise arch is broken.

[@jinty83]

I've been using BigLinux for over a year on my main pcs and have loved the experience and your comment makes sense as I certainly appreciated the ease of use and less of a chance to break my system. A few months ago I did a clean install and didn't realise that the manjaro mesa now doesn't have h264/h265 hardware encoding. I can use the flatpak of obs and gpuscreenrecorder but I'd rather use native packages. I installed cachyos a few days ago and am loving it so I'll see how that goes and if I manage to break my system at some point lol! Cachy is very fast and I loved that it gave me the option to install all of the gaming packages required with the click of a button 😁

[@leonardo.muricy]

@@jinty83 it seems nice. I've never used it

[@jinty83]

@@leonardo.muricy you should give it a try and see what you think.

[@linuxgamingbr]

​@@jinty83Hi, jinty! You could install mesa-tkg-stable, it's a modification of mesa from manjaro that Barnabe (a BigLinux dev) made when I suggest it. It's basically manjaro mesa with some patches including h24/h265 codecs.

I've used this distro for a year. I think their main drive is that it can be as easy and as complex as you'd like it to be. For starters: They have the webapps prepopulated with all the most used sites. They have premade kwin rules under kde for pip of browsers for example. They have their own gaming stack with all the current bells and whistles. So if you are just migrating over from microsoft this would be the best choice i would recommend for anyone. If you want to mess around with kernels, snapshots, etc you can and they provide you the tools too. However they are not in your face about it and they hid these under their own command center kind of thing.

[@guilherme5094]

14 years ago it was my first distro, and it was different from what it is today, if I'm not mistaken it was based on Ubuntu. Thanks for the review.

[@A1RM4X]

Thanks for sharing!

[@fredericconsavela8484]

I'm french like you, have an horrible accent like you, but I will comment in english. I use Big Linux since two years along with Mint (Ubuntu based Cinnamon version). Both are forks of forks and both are the most comfortable distros to use daily, to upgrade, to understand etc. I've installed both on several computer (2009 Mac Pro, 3 Lenovo Thinkpads, Sony Vaio, HP Elitebook 850, Dell Latitude etc.) I don't play, I don't use OBS, I'm mostly doing webmastering, MAO and the common use that everyone has (internet, YT, social medias, office type work etc.).

[@mrboxzoo5595]

yo A1RM4X can you install vanilla os

[@ПредрагЉубинковић]

When I hear this gentleman speak English i immediately remember the comedy TV series "Alo Alo" :) In any case, you are doing a great job!

[@johanb.7869]

Good moaning!

[@A1RM4X]

Never heard about this show before checking up your comment! ROFL

[@donaldmickunas8552]

I haven't tried Big Linux. Given that it is targeted at a noob, then the new user will rely on the store for loading software. Most noobs want nothing to do with the terminal. Arch does not provide such luxuries. You approached this as an experienced Linux user who knew his way around the terminal. In that instance, this distro doesn't make much sense.

[@felipefmavelar]

BRAZIL MENTIONED! 🎊🎉🇧🇷🎉🎊 Yeah, but Big Linux is not really my thing either.

[@louisfifteen]

Greetings from Denmark. Where did you get this wallpaper, the abstract painting, or is it inside the Big Linux Os?

[@whyareless]

Yes, it's from the BigLinux distro!

[@louisfifteen]

@@whyareless Thank you Mon Ami.

[@Ud4cznik]

9:57 that would cost you in a multiplayer match :DDD

[@A1RM4X]

True =)

[@UserDMG]

Could you try out artix? I would love to see if you experience similar issues with it as I did. I had issues where the audio would be buggy and or have extreme latency to my games. I used the openrc variants.

[@fabiosoares7660]

Actually it is very simple to use, they have simplified Big Linux, Big is based on Arch and Manjaro and is very simple to use! Manjaro is kinda complicated, but Big Linux made it easier!

[@mrboxzoo5595]

Yo A1RM4X linux mint has a kde version but you need to install in the terminal

[@felipefmavelar]

uh, every distro has a kde version if you install it using the terminal

[@atemoc]

Yeah, that comments makes no sense. In this case, Linux Mint also has a Hyprland version, a Deepin version, heck, it might as well have a Windows version.

[@fabiosoares7660]

Big Linux it is easier to use in my opinion!

[@Crit-Chance]

"I like compiling OBS Studio Browser from the AUR. And because it's Arch, that's what I wanted to do." Oh boy, Manjaro claims another victim

[@A1RM4X]

xD

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

Have you reviewed Ubuntu Cinnamon I might go back to it could I request a review on it please if you haven't done it yet?

[@brolofmeistertv1337]

Hello @A1RM4X I have a question: which distro is best for gaming?

[@hektordesouza77]

Cachy OS, Endeavour OS, Garuda OS, Nobara OS,

[@fabiovelloso1199]

Biglinux is a great distro, super fast and clean, but using it, I am really not sure if it's based on Manjaro or Arch. It could be a more clean and straightforward distro if it adopted Arch as its base. I spent 2 weeks using Biglinux, and it was amazing, but sometimes complex, with errors occurring from simply installing or upgrading the system. It seems that Biglinux is two distros in one (Biglinux and Manjaro). Biglinux has the potential to be better than Manjaro in many ways if the developers remove Manjaro from it.

[@johanb.7869]

First it was based on Kubuntu, than Deepin and in 2021 they based it on Manjaro KDE Plasma according to distrowatch.

[@decoydave]

As a complete Linux noob currently on Mint I just installed big Linux yesterday as I wanted to venture into the world of arch Linux. I found that on big some of the menus opened up with Portuguese language and thought nah. Also it was a bit complicated for me to find my way around the whole arch thing, so this noob went back to Mint until my Linux knowledge increases. I did like the look and layout of Big, but arch is not for me...yet.

[@fabiosoares7660]

Complicated?? Bruh thats easy asf, you literally have a manage for everything for drivers and all that! You should choose english in your case maybe you chose Portuguese!

[@drakemallard6100]

On the other side Mint is one of the best Distro out there as a fork of a fork.

[@richardsnyder6413]

Big Linux is awesome 😎

[@Hiram8866]

7:10 you said "keep it stupid simple."... I think it is "keep it simple stupid". I like yours better.

[@A1RM4X]

You are right indeed: wiki.archlinux.org/title/arch_terminology#KISS !! Thanks for liking my KISS better =)

[@satyamevajayate7263]

Arch is meant to be bleeding edge. There is no such thing called as newbie friendly arch distro. Arch based distros will always be Arch.

[@Сергей_Травкин]

Hello A1RM4X. You can try Alt Linux.

[@A1RM4X]

Hello MrCrowXx. I might.

[@jeanbob1481]

Québécois ou français? Mint et Zorin sont pas pire du tout comme distros aussi je vais checker Big il a l'air bien. Dans le temps j'utilisais bodhi linux super léger mais il doit être mort aujourd'hui.

[@mr_hardy5329]

Zis video

[@asunavk69]

i already thought this was arch based, but manjaro? ye no, lol

[@fabiosoares7660]

Big Linux is actually based on Manjaro and Arch bruh, which is good cuz it is rolling release, and they made easy to use!

[@asunavk69]

@@fabiosoares7660 there are other ez to use rolling releases, and if you watched the video, airmax, mentions issues on biglinux that would not be on arch, so no real point here to be a fork of a fork(and a pretty mixed one at that), when it could just be, a fork.

[@fabiosoares7660]

@@asunavk69 and who cares if it is a fork of a fork, if it's more easy to use and have tons of features ppl will use it, and big Linux is more accurate to windows, I don't have any problems so far, I'm liking it a lot, I can even use AUR and flat pack packages!

[@fabiosoares7660]

​@@asunavk69 There are no any other good rolling release distros apart of arch which is hard and Manjaro bruh

[@asunavk69]

@@fabiosoares7660 i keep hearing bad things about manjaro, idc i just use endeavourOS, it dont see it being any harder than manjaro or BigL will not waste my time with based distros that are proner to break. For rolling you are more at a risk anyways so better to learn abit about or suffer.

[@smebox]

i love big linux. dont need Windows.

[@clankfish]

all those wallpapers look like ai generated crap to me

[@marcinpawelski4091]

such a waste using 4090 in linux. my eyes bleeding :(

[@A1RM4X]

Who is going to tell Marcin?

[@marcinpawelski4091]

@@A1RM4X im joking :) great vid