Arch Linux Is Objectively The Best Distro

[@Iris-2106]

Arch Linux is objectively a distro

[@rj7250a]

Arch Linux

[@Zoverone]

Arch

[@TheGrimDark]

A

[@michaeljaques77]

Linux is objectively a kernel

[@SirBrian_]

Source?

[@swizzler]

I think the biggest curveball in a community survey i got recently, was when the Home Assistant survey asked if i was neurodivergent

[@RadikAlice]

Called out 🤣

[@Mekuso8]

I mean... It's not irrelevant

[@QTwoSix]

Why do even have to ask? They already know the answer

[@blarghblargh]

​​@@QTwoSix sometimes it can be good to challenge or confirm your assumptions

[@hundvd_7]

As a Hass user, uh oh

[@inkyobus]

I think the Arch community just wants to pretend Manjaro doesn't exist sometimes and I don't blame them.

[@raypol1]

Manjaro is dead. Endeavour OS is the way to go now.

[@WochenendNerds]

Hm, why should be manjaro dead?

[@raypol1]

@@WochenendNerds Bad management, prioritizes being commercial rather than for community and their tinkering with arch apps is often causing more issue than good.

[@Iris-2106]

​​@@raypol1 Endeavour OS is dead. Archinstall 3.0 is the way to go now.

[@raypol1]

@@Iris-2106 If you are using Archinstall to install Arch you are missing the whole point of using a clean Arch install. The journey is what matters not the destination.

[@ElMarcoh]

your old intro looks like an obituary: like "in memoriam of: Brodie Robertson" 💀

[@lritzdorf]

I'd certainly want my obituary to have sick music!

[@RadikAlice]

In some sense, it is. An obituary for his past self

[@HiImKyle]

It truly is one of the distros of all time

[@polinskitom2277]

Arch Linux truly is the best distro. Its users beta test software for free

[@ForeverZer0]

I think you misunderstand what stable/beta releases are, Arch is no way shipping beta releases in its repos. It ships **stable** releases of software, after a testing phase briefer than most other distros. The releases are the stable versions from their respective developers. If JetBrains releases the new "PyCharm 8.0", it is a stable release, and Arch will get it in the repos sooner than Debian, but they are not pushing out "PyCharm 7.9.78-08-beta". If you want that, you have to install an "Early Access" package from the AUR. The developers of software are what define stable/beta, not Arch.

[@Lufex_]

💀

[@TheDiner50]

Take that over Windblows or any other distro. Sometimes you can not even tell if there even was a alpha or pre-alpha test before launching software updates. It is far more preferable that the users actually can fix software. Instead of relying on those that give not a single care about those that value non-monopoly shitification. The only software that truly is not released in users beta test for free states, is Apple software. But the hardware and concept of wall garden is a no-go. Like seriously. The amount of times Windows and Microsoft software apps have worked completely fine, and then a forced update happen in the background and brakes/make something worse is staggering. On Linux and Arch? That usually has to do with Nividia drivers and that nonsense. The amount of times Linux installs have shit the bed after updating due to Nvidia is almost on par with Windows. Difference is that Windows is far worse to reinstall... And that is a paid OS. Worse experience installing the paid for software.

[@BananasGoMooDev]

to be fair, when windows 7 came out I installed the RC as my main OS before it released so I do like beta software i guess lmao

[@FrameForgeQuest]

Nah bro... U don't know what you're talkin. Arch provides the latest STABLE version of software in its repos. No beta testing, unless you manually activate the testing/staging repos.

[@emptor543]

I like Arch because it starts with relatively few base packages and no preconfigured garbage. Other distros feel like I copied someone else's drive image.

[@ahmoin]

debian

[@emptor543]

@@ahmoin Too old to have some stuff I use. If it had a faster release schedule (not testing like sid) I might think about it.

[@АлексейШилин-д1ф]

That's not unique to Arch though. Generally distros which have netinstall images like Debian, Fedora, even Ubuntu server installer - allow that as well.

[@0x6a09]

gentoo is better at that

[@donkey7921]

@0x6a09 Linux from scratch as also better at that than Gentoo.

[@serras_]

I think that they should have asked what shell you like to use too, (bash, fish, zsh, etc)

[@qlx-i]

Gentoo. The distro that _actually_ doesn't have an installer.

[@darthcabs]

Started using Fish shell because it came pre-installed on Garuda, and just discovered that when I'm in bash or zsh I definitely miss it, so I guess I'm a fish user now

[@fender_jag]

I kinda hate fish for no reason

[@TechJolt3d]

@@fender_jag Not posix compliant?

[@serras_]

@@darthcabs I agree, I cant live without the color coding and autocomplete, bash is too plain for me anymore

[@CleetusGlobin]

If Mint has a million users, I am one of them. If Mint has one user, I am him. If Mint has no users, I am dead.

[@papastuffy]

that's pretty slick, never heard that one.

[@zsheets7483]

I liked using Cinnamon on my non-server Arch installs. Offered a good combo of utility and performance.

[@rimenahi]

Mint is lacking Wayland.

[@RenderingUser]

@@papastuffy its literally one of the most overused copypastas 💀

[@papastuffy]

@@RenderingUser and i literally said i've never heard it so we are at an imapasse. you claim overuse while i claim ignorance of use... but go ahead and tell me how many times i've heard it. i'll wait.

[@SirWrexes]

Took you 3 full minutes to slip in the "by the way", I'm impressed by the amount of restraint you had on that one

[@TheFerdi265]

I have been living on Arch-testing for many many years now. Usually it's just as stable as Arch, and the few times something breaks, I'd rather it hit me and I report / fix it than it hitting less experienced people. The main issues with testing are usually a) Package X was updated, but Y needs a rebuild that hasn't happened yet, easy enough to fix with a rebuild (thanks rebuild-detector, last happened sometime during the Python 3.13 uprade) b) Package X's new version is broken somehow, either fixed with a report+downgrade or just fixing it upstream (most prominently the plymouth upgrade at the start of 2024, which I then helped fix)

[@madbradfreeman]

I consider Arch an educational distro. It teaches you many ways Linux can break, and (hopefully) how to fix them. I admin RH-based machines, so Fedora is my daily driver. (I remember when RedHat 5.2 asked the loaded question during install: Do you want Workstation or Server? Choosing Server wiped your hard drive of any other OSes. I chose poorly.)

[@qlx-i]

I think gentoo is better in this. They basically have _no_ installer (not even pacstrap-like), and you can use any distro to install it (not just a bootable usb stick, you can install from another distro that's already installed). Their installation manual is very extensive and covers everything in depth. They offer the most core linux experience, especially with openrc. And you can just go and edit the kernel config at any point, for which they have also extensive docs. Think of it as automated LFS

[@Wkaelx]

@@qlx-i Gentoo is for pyschos

[@veronikawinters6435]

fedora

[@Soccera0]

​@@qlx-ithough it's important to note that the only reason to use OpenRC is musl. If you're not using musl, systemd is objectively better.

[@toby9999]

Why does Linux break so often?

[@NiceMicroTV]

To be fair, Brodie, "Native" doesn't exactly mean that you speak the language better, it just means this was the first one you ever learned. :D

[@fghsgh]

people confuse the concepts though, because they seem to assume that people grow up monolingual

[@Alfred.Petersson]

I suppose, if you're one of like 3 people who hook up old teleprinter terminals to modern Linux machines just because it's cool, then TTY might be favorite since it is kind of made for that.

[@fghsgh]

i was a TTY girl until 2018! my laptop at the time didn't have enough RAM to run gnome properly (and even then, it struggled with firefox), so i'd need to plug in an external hard drive, enable it as swap, and then manually start X11 and most of the stuff i wanted to do worked just fine in a TTY anyway (elinks for web browsing, mplayer for video...) also, fewer distractions while i was studying

[@cameronbosch1213]

I've been using EndeavourOS as my main OS since 2021 (aka Windows 11's release), but I had been using Linux on and off for several years before that; my first experience with Linux was with Ubuntu 10.04.

[@xijnin]

Is endevourOS just a fancy archinstall or does it have some unique features?

[@IQof2]

@@xijninit has some nice features that make it approachable for noobs, maintainability tools, quality of life features, theming, etc.

[@stemlator]

@@xijnin I recommend EndeavourOS for anyone who wants to try Arch but wants a turnkey Arch distro. When you get to the DE question on the graphical installer, you can click each one to preview them to see how they'll look (it uses KDE Plasma by default). I stopped using it as I didn't care for the default firewall. I'm sure that can be configured, but I didn't feel like spending time to do it. The next time I get the itch to try Arch, I'll try the actual Arch.

[@cameronbosch1213]

@@xijnin It also has a much better community than Arch proper.

[@零云-u7e]

​@@stemlatorI always install ufw on my laptops. It's super easy from the terminal, as in, I didn't have to jack with config files.

[@Sw3d15h_F1s4]

WHERES MY NIXOS REP IN THE COMMENTS WOOOOO YEAAA BABY

[@kmdavidds]

WOOOOOOOOO

[@oneconfusedbeing2027]

Woooooo

[@kazriko]

I used NixOS for awhile to try it out, but got tired of the delays when launching software sometimes. Now I just use Nix package manager on my dev projects that need to have a repeatable environment.

[@SongbirdTheAI]

Here !!!!

[@callyral]

​@@kazrikodelays when launching software? how is that a NixOS issue, i use it and have not experienced delays even on my laptop

[@temari2860]

11:00 I remember I had an entire purely CLI environment on Arch. Only used TTYs for everything. I lasted just over 2 weeks. Don't remember what was the exact reason why I even did this, I think I just went completely nuts trying to "debloat" and "optimize" my computer life as any Linux nerd does.

[@xgui4-studios]

i dont debloat my system ...

[@RenzoMorini_857]

we all computer nerds have done that at some point in our lives xD

[@zeep-yt]

how did you use the web?

[@RenzoMorini_857]

@@zeep-yt lynx or w3m probably

[@Trainz2950]

I did this too, it was fun. I hope to get back to it someday. Obviously it had a limited time span since I like to game and watch KZbin

[@real-cirno]

Having 2 kernels installed - just set up btrfs subvolumes properly and set up snapshots, if anything happens - roll back.

[@zsheets7483]

This is a good idea for updates and package installs more generally, not just for the kernel.

[@nikunjkhangwal]

Btrfs is slow on older cheap drives. I wish zfs was common on Linux

[@sprinklednights]

I just use a USB flash drive.

[@CatFace8885]

I find it weird how the section for "favorite terminal emulator" has tmux listed there. Technically it counts? But it's not in the same category as any of the others listed.

[@supernovaw39]

Yeah, afaik it's a multiplexer and not an emulator since you need a "real" emulator to run it in, otherwise it's a headless process. Really weird response option.

[@onceuponaban]

@@supernovaw39 I suspect this is aimed toward those who work with remote servers with ssh+tmux often enough that tmux, not the tty itself, is their main interface.

[@supernovaw39]

@@onceuponaban I actually do that too but nonetheless I answered `gnome-terminal`

[@ZombieLurker]

Google accounts require a phone number now for KYC. Not possible to create a burner account with them anymore unless you also have a burner phone number that isn't linked to your name. Right?

[@Myrinrewind]

Really i just made mine 4 months ago using a outlook account,no phone number no legal name

[@nurphurecarnium]

If you made a couple of accounts from the same device (maybe they detect the IP or smth, idk), it does require you to use a phone number to make sure people don't just make hundreds of em using bot.

[@fghsgh]

you can use the same phone number for a couple accounts, which at least makes it possible to have multiple accounts at all even if privacy is compromised

[@digitaleswerken]

Why is there no button for "I run Arch inside a Distrobox on Bazzite?"

[@xgui4-studios]

cause bazzite isnt based on arch but on fedora silverblue

[@lordmike9331]

Linux ON scratch is the best distro ngl

[@angeldude101]

Not to be confused with Linux FROM scratch, which is second place.

[@plebisMaximus]

@@angeldude101 that's not a distro tho

[@muizzsiddique]

I've been using Arch and then sitting on an Arch install for over a year now. Things are looking better but it will take a moment before I go back to it full-time.

[@HobbitJack1]

I'm a TTY guy! It's fast, I boot right into it, and I don't need to start or run X to get it to work.

[@MikePainstill]

TTY is great, but doesn’t get you far, sadly.

[@Darkangl28]

I use CachyOS with KDE Plasma / Wayland / Nvidia for the last six months or so, and I've been perfectly happy with it. I haven't had to go back to windows for anything, and the performance has been fabilous. There's a learning curve to configure things the way you want, but once you get it set up to your liking, you don't have to mess with it.

[@LifeonFireforGod]

The best distro is the one that fits you.

[@MartinWoad]

In June this year I used the archinstall script to get me going on my new workstation with a fresh Nvidia card. We have the end of the year now and I haven't had a single issue with this system nor did I need to reinstall anything. Every game I've tried to launch through Steam worked flawlessly, hell, even Blizzard games worked with just changing the proton/wine version in Lutris.10/10, I didn't even dare to think the switch would run this smoothly.

[@Leniwcowaty-xh5cj]

I have used Arch for about a year. And I had similar approach to it as you do. It works, suits me, doesn't break very often... Tbh when it broke, it broke at the least convinient moment, but still. Then I tried Fedora and was thrilled with it. Just made my day 100x better, being up-to-date, but not breaking as much. But Wayland was causing... Issues. A lot of issues. Not to mention, GNOME. Not to mention packages that were being updated without underlying libraries... Then came LTS - Linux Mint. And I never looked back. It's just THERE. It works. It doesn't break. It just IS!

[@AwesumIndustrys]

I can’t help but chuckle at the fact that you used to use the old Retroware bump music for your intro.

[@boredstudent9468]

I'm one of those unfortunate people where every other arch update bricks my system and I have to spend a few hours fixing it, that's why I'm now using opensuse tumbleweed to have a more stable rolling release

[@magnum333]

Did you try BTRFS snapshots?

[@JaegermeisterCoomerstein]

​@@magnum333using btrfs snapshots just to have a stable operating system really shows the sad state of Linux.

[@boredstudent9468]

@@JaegermeisterCoomerstein not a Linux problem, just an Arch (and bad luck) problem.

[@magnum333]

​@@JaegermeisterCoomerstein If you're looking for stability just use Debian stable, man. It's as stable as it gets. That's GNU/Linux. If you are a hacker you can try other things. To each his own.

[@ThatLinuxDude]

@@JaegermeisterCoomerstein *sad state of Arch Linux

[@alphaobeisance]

We got into Arch about the same time. But you have become my go-to source for all things Linux. Thanks for making quality content, and thanks for bringing this survey to my attention (I dont use Reddit).

[@aram7017]

20:45 i was an Arch Linux user for like 3-4 years and very satisfied like you are in the video, but it tends to get blooted very fast, i use NixOS and i recommend it to every advanced linux user, on NixOS you only have one config file that represents your entire /etc and all packages on your system , you write it once and modify it along the way

[@darkienescariot9361]

This. I loved Arch (still do for a laptop I'm not daily driving), but dependency hells immediately start to pile up. nix-os rebuild and I'm just done.

[@aravindpallippara1577]

You can use the package manager to figure out hanging dependencies and remove them. But yeah it's manual and you have to recognize all of the damn software names and spend some time researching. Should try nixos someday - but really happy with my arch KDE setup for over 5 years now.

[@plebisMaximus]

Linux users are already pretty zealous, but damn you guys make us Arch users look neurotypical. I'm happy you found a system you like and that works for you, but I'd rather not have a weird container patchwork OS. Cool tech, not interested.

[@darkienescariot9361]

@@plebisMaximus "weird container patchwork" ah, found the NPC

[@valeth6472]

The 7000 series of AMD GPUs has AV1 encoding support, at least my 7800 does. I'd assume that they support it across the entire generation.

[@sprinklednights]

Yeah they do. Got a 7700 XT.

[@Void_Dragon]

I used arch for less then 6 months. Only did it as a test to get it up and running. Once it broke during a normal update, I never used it again. Sorry, but I need stability more then bleeding edge for my use case.

[@sildistruttore]

what exactly broke?

[@Void_Dragon]

@@sildistruttore I dont remember, it was over 5 years ago. I just remember x wasnt starting up anymore, even in tty using startx. Probably had something to do with hybrid graphics if I had to guess.

[@Redexiasz28PL]

What is your main system/distro right now?

[@SIMULATAN]

Using a HDD as /home in almost 2025 is crazy

[@polinskitom2277]

That's what most Windows users do. They use a small SSD as their C:\ drive so their computer boots fast, and then use a 1-4 TB HDD drive as their D:\ drive because SSDs are unreliable. Not hard to see someone using / on a SSD and then /home on an HDD either.

[@MisakaMikotoDesu]

@@polinskitom2277 It's not 2010 anymore, SSDs are very reliable.

[@RenzoMorini_857]

wdym ssd are unreliable?

[@JosephSaintClair]

@RenzoMorini_857 Against:- SSD compared to HDD: - limited write cycles - Temperature sensitive (not only can corrupt data but affects performance too) - more prone to non recoverable ecc errors … … … to name a few

[@MisakaMikotoDesu]

@@JosephSaintClair You are more likely to have an HDD mechanically fail than to run out of write cycles on a modern SSD.

[@cosmicusstardust3300]

The RX 7000 series of AMD GPUs can do AV1 btw brodie

[@infine-8222]

Same here. I did screen recording and transcoding into AV1 with an RDNA3 GPU. It seems to work fine and stable, and quality is good (unlike AMD horrible h264), and it seems to be consumable by things other than dedicated media players (unlike anything h265).

[@chlorobyte]

Arch gives that nice balance of being hands down with your system, making it actually really easy to make whatever tweak you'd like (from experience Ubuntus like to get in the way) but without going into no life Gentoo territory. I've just reinstalled, about to do stuff like having various folders require unlocking by mount, make the KDE Plasma GUI as powerful as it can be (already had stuff previously like convert between formats, resize image accessible on right click). I'm sure you can do a bunch of that on Ubuntus but Arch just feels like you own the system, you don't feel like it's going to get in the way for some reason

[@chlorobyte]

Also about the AI assistant question. If it's a common issue then AI will have the answer built into it and will be more useful than consulting a search engine. Keep in mind it WILL hallucinate and you should NOT blindly run commands it gives you. Otherwise I throw 3 pies out: - check search engine for more up to date information - keep a thread going with the AI anyway. ChatGPT especially is not absolutely horrible at troubleshooting, and it might be able to plan something out and that might (or might not) be useful - ask the Discord nerd society, usually if the first 2 aren't doing too hot

[@c3lizzie]

I have a girlfriend who runs Arch. I run Gentoo. Hilariously, I've noticed that she consistently has to do much more work to maintain her system than I do. Yes updates take longer if you don't use the binary packages, but I just do it overnight. Maybe my CPU has no life, but I'm doing great!

[@zsheets7483]

Filled out the survey and found out I've got 348 packages on my Gigabyte Brix home mini-server. I'm certain I'd have a lot more if I were using it as my daily driver OS.

[@kazriko]

I use Artix just because I want to make sure that I don't use software that breaks compatibility with non-Linux systems, and systemd is very much incompatible with non-linux, and anything that relies on systemd is linux only. I still use BSDs and Void Linux on some systems.

[@magnum333]

I'm hopeful that one day init-freedom respecting distros will gain more popularity. It's a matter of time.

[@bruceknee4941]

What do you mean? The software won't work on BSD because it depends on systemd?

[@kazriko]

@@bruceknee4941 For example, modern Gnome can't run without systemd because it's too tightly tied to it. systemd is also very tightly tied to linux and can't be run on any other systems (solaris, unix, bsd, etc) so modern Gnome cannot run on BSD or Solaris.

[@themacintoshnerd]

Arch is what truly taught me Linux. You learn so much about your system and how Linux and just UNIX generally by using it.

[@Duckly97]

1:05 New google accounts require a phone number, so burner is not possible.

[@makee]

hear me out, burner phone number.

[@CYXXYC]

so sad, i have like 7 google accounts without phones that all beg me "please for the love of god add a phone" and i go "haha funny skip for now button looks so pushable right now"

[@qlum]

You can however use a burner phone number, maybe add a couple of google accounts using that number. Not free but sim cards are not too expensive either.

[@billybobjankens12]

I've heard on Android devices you don't need a phone number for newer google accounts, and it worked.

[@papastuffy]

@@CYXXYC never add one voluntarily, make them FORCE the issue.

[@trog871]

I've installed arch on some of my project computers because sometimes its simplest to install packages from the AUR. I don't use it on my main PC, but I think its neat. I run Fedora on my main PCs.

[@darkienescariot9361]

NixOS is the way. It's only been a few months of not having to build , manage and fix AUR packages and I'm never going back. Nixpkgs just takes the suck away. And FLAKES! Flakes just heal the earth.

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

I've used nothing but a tty (with gnu screen) for about a month, about 10 years ago, purely as an exercise in frustration. I didn't make it the whole month and that was entirely because of screen. I've obviously switched to tmux since then. And AV1 encoding works pretty well on 7800xt if you ever upgrade. I have a 6700xt in my server for jellyfin av1 decode which works well.

[@Veetrill]

Since you asked about tty, I could provide a case from my recent experience. I use an old netbook as some sort of "lab rat" for practicing various things with Arch before doing any crap on my primary computer. This netbook has a pretty weak Intel Atom CPU and just 2G of RAM (can't be extended). Because of this even a lightweight graphical environment such as Xfce becomes quite costly - so if there is a way for me to do some tasks without leaving tty, then I absolutely do just that.

[@bhargavjitbhuyan9394]

You should just use a window manager. Like sway.

[@animainmilol]

2 grams of ram is really sad

[@Zhought3391]

I switched to my first Arch-based distro earlier this year and have been very happy with it. I thought I’d be having to mess with it all the time, but it works really, really well.

[@bucklinspring]

Been using Arch specifically for about 5-6 years as well, although I've been using Linux on the desktop in varying capacities since 2010. I definitely feel more at home on Arch than anywhere else these days, though Fedora is great too.

[@CaptTerrific]

I really don't understand the fear/hate/confusion about Arch. I'm no snob, in fact it's the only distro I've used outside of Ubuntu since 2005. Arch has been my daily driver ever since I simply decided one day to try it out a year ago. It's great that there's nearly NOTHING THERE from the start, but it does have the necessary system utils and drivers to make it possible to build out a functioning OS very quickly (though granted I used the Gentoo guide for install). Pacman, AUR, yay, are the best things EVER!!! I've had better stability than any other OS, updates are a snap, and it's allowed me to control the system far easier than Ubuntu ever did. I figure after a full year I'm in the clear, but perhaps I'm just sitting on the precipice waiting to lose everything? Or am I missing something major?

[@a_dogg5277]

as someone who used arch based distros, i can explain a few points, one the community is a jerk circle, very unfriendly to new users, and the distro itself it's unstable because it's bleeding edge, most of the arch users i've seen on the internet really makes sure you know that they are arch users and you wanna be like them, i remember once having a laptop with an arch based distro in it, forgot about it a month later and then i couldn't install uninstall or update arch, cuz somehow my keys wasn't valid. went gentoo and i haven't looked back into using other distros besides of the fanbase really friendly to newcomers, i feel is because the pain of fucking up an emerge makes everyone humble instead of arch's bin lighting fast install, that when a graphics driver gets update and then startx stops working it's your fault, even the arch wiki tells you that if your install breaks, its your fault, even tho users have no idea that the new and latest update is a time bomb

[@cameronbosch1213]

@@a_dogg5277 There are other communities other than Arch's. Try EndeavourOS. I haven't had a problem with their forums.

[@Cyco_Nix]

While there is fear/hate/confusion as with anything Linux, most of it is subjective. Arch is just not what everyone wants to use, and that is fine. I have been working on / using Linux since before the first distro existed. Arch is a great distro, but it is also not what I, personally, want for my daily driver that I use to run my business. I do have Arch systems and build IoT devices for clients, but just not what I want to use on my main system.

[@sprinklednights]

The reason why I don't like Arch Linux is because of the AUR and the lack of multiple architectures. The former is a personal problem and the latter is just gonna matter in the future. Other than that, Arch Linux is a very good Linux distribution.

[@borisjulinuv2776]

i prefer nixOS i found both to be similar but having it all declarative make it easier to maintain for long term and also make installing your obscure software to a friend XD

[@someguy2338]

As someone who uses Arch btw, I approve this message.

[@zeep-yt]

I was filling out the survey while watching your video, obviously a little ahead of you because I wasn't talking about the questions, and after I was finished I watched you write EXACTLY what I wrote in the last question, word for word, letter for letter. "Arch... btw"

[@nukedoom]

That was a really recreational video. Cool to hear your stories and opinions. I was using Fedora, it is a great distro, but was always falling back to Windows. I’m using CachyOS now for about 6 months and I’m in love. Also using Steam OS o the deck for 1 year. Steam deck was responsible for the Arch based commitment. My system is stable, it just works and it is fast.

[@GlorytoTheMany]

I don't install any Linux without LVM because I felt its power. I'm also a BTRFS enjoyer but I consider whether I need it for a specific install or not: when I don't need its features, I stick with ext4.

[@Craft2guardian]

Endeavour is literally all you need to learn arch, main Endeavour for 6 months to a year and go full arch

[@MikePainstill]

I would recommend using Arch to newbies if they have time and patience to do so, if they don’t, I tell them to experiment around with various newbie distros or to use Mint.

[@Craft2guardian]

@ I went from mint to endeavour and then arch

[@MikePainstill]

@@Craft2guardian That’s the common trope, I went from Mint which was broken for me, then to Debian which worked great and then Arch.

[@Craft2guardian]

@ I was thinking of going to Debian instead of EOS but I wanted something arch based

[@magnum333]

Funny how Artix isn't listed...

[@zsheets7483]

I know this isn't what you mean, but my brain goes to AdventureQuest.

[@AlexanderMikhailov629]

@@zsheets7483Back when I first see someone mention Artix Linux I was like "Wait, AdventureQuestWorld has a distro? Why though?" But apparently both are unrelated.

[@reiisthebestgirl]

SoystemD mafia is afraid

[@magnum333]

@@reiisthebestgirl I agree! I'm hopeful that gradually init-freedom respecting distros will succeed.

[@plebisMaximus]

@@zsheets7483 The good Artix

[@benloud8740]

Fedora for me. My background is enterprise linux. I like the way Red Hat configures things. Network Manager, firewalld, SELinux etc. all preconfigured with strong security out of the box. Solid and reliable.

[@stopspyingonme9210]

I like arch and just too lazy to update my computer regularly lately. Plus I took installed too much junk like cosmic and kde when looking for an alternative to pop shell moving forward. I only update once a week ish and I don't want to worry about breakage even though never experience any on arch

[@fatinebadr7244]

At first, I tried using Arch through the CLI, but I got stuck during the installation process. So, I used the installation script and ended up using the XFCE desktop environment for around 6 to 10 months. Later, I switched to a new laptop, used Windows for about half a year, then installed EndeavourOS, which I had heard was better for NVIDIA graphics. To my surprise, the NVIDIA drivers weren't installed at all, and I didn't realize it until I tried gaming. I had been using the OS for 2-3 months without noticing it was missing the drivers! That's when things started going wrong with Wayland, so I switched to Xorg, which I've been using ever since. No issues now, everything works fine.

[@Raxyz_0]

Not entirely related, but I have a question. I've installed Mint with dualboot while I'm slowly switching from Windows. How complicated it would be to change to Arch eventually?

[@gogg111]

not complicated at all.. just install over the mint or windows partition. It's not as difficult as some make it seem.. I started on Arch and now 9+ years later, still on Arch.

[@bhutchin1996]

Mint's a good distro. Arch itself is not the easiest to install and configure, but Arch-based distros like EndeavourOS and Garuda do that for you.

[@Riddim_glitch]

I only started using bare arch in the middle of last year. Before then I've been mostly on endeavour. My new years resolution for this year to drop my reliance on windows on the bare system and move to VM-ing.

[@akitake_]

CachyOS has been my home for a while because it's arch with very good defaults, optimized packages, optimized kernels, QoL tools and a graphical installer.

[@Auxxua]

I started using Linux through Ubuntu. 5 years I used it in Uni, and in 2022 I switched my gaming PC to Linux also. First Pop!_OS, then Mint, then Tumbleweed and now CachyOS. CachyOS has been the smoothest ride at this point by far. And I've used CachyOS for few months now.

[@fooboomoo]

cachy's speed can't be fully shown through benchmarks. it's the snappieness of the UI that really makes the difference. you notice it instantly.

[@JamesMcCloskey]

Could someone give me an elevator pitch of why I should use Arch? I mean this sincerely.

[@zxuiji]

After looking at the various filesystem differences (mainly for the smallest max filename length supported) I found that btrfs is by and far the best option there is that is not propriety

[@omp4556]

Arch Linux is objectively Arch Linux.

[@ImageJPEG]

Incorrect. Haven’t watched the video, just saying the objectively best distro is Gentoo. Now I’ll watch the video.

[@dansanger5340]

Speaking of UEFI dual boot, I prefer UEFI dual boot. When I was configuring my new PC for dual boot, I physically removed the Windows SSD, put in a dedicated SSD for Linux, wiped it, installed Linux Mint on it, and made sure it was working. Then I shut down the system and added back the Windows SSD. Yet, somehow Linux (or Windows?) inserted the Grub boot menu, with Windows as an option, even though I never asked for it. I don't remember if it did it right away, or after updates.

[@SamuTheFrog]

Your experience with trying to dual boot with windows the first time you tried Arch Linux is my exact experience with it my first time as well. Oh man, it's hilarious how much I can relate to that smile/laugh/chuckle of embarrassment you gave lmao

[@JassonCordones]

Daily driving Arch about 1 year, I used it a bit around 2013 too. And used multiple distros since 2007

[@TaketoShiromori]

Thank you, Brodie!

[@WoodenPlankGames]

I daily drove Manjaro i3 for about 8 months a while ago, but am now on a distro I myself maintain, which is Debian (Sid) derived with the plasma environment.

[@OkerlundTV]

I just switched from Manjaro to Arch a few days ago. Best decision I ever made. Previously I was on Mint. This was also my first time using the open-kernel Nvidia drivers. I don't see myself leaving Arch anytime soon. This was always my "end goal" with Linux, but I wasn't expecting to switch to it less than a year after switching from Windows. Experience on here with Nvidia drivers is perfectly fine. Games run either the same performance or better performance than on Windows. Won't be able to test that anymore, though. Windows is gone from all of my computers and my laptop.

[@Skalarwelle]

Currently, I'm using Garuda with Hyprland, but will try out CachyOS on my next system. I'm very happy with Garuda, but want to try out different Arch-based distros and see what they are like.

[@Neon-Grim]

"Laughs in nixos" sure buddy. Jokes aside, the best distro is the one that fits the bill best for the features you need. On my Desktop, nixos is godly. On my legion go I run bazzite.

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

I like Arch, even though for some reason my arch based distro is having an issue and I can’t easily debug it. Basically turning on Bluetooth has a high chance of making my system unstable to the point where I have to hard reset or hard force power off. I’m not using systemd so I also have the issue of KDE not automatically syncing the time.

[@juliawolf156]

Fedora Kinoite offers a benefit over Arch: It keeps a copy of your previous kernel before changes are made. If you mess up something, you can instantly go back. And unlike Arch it's done automatically.

[@Spookymoon46]

Switched from Windows to Arch 5 Days ago, its relatively smooth experience with a few bumps such as not knowing how to mount a secondary drive but with time I'll have things figured it out. And also realised that Linux community in general aren't good at explaining things to newbies.

[@zsheets7483]

The Arch Wiki is a great resource, however. It's so good that it's useful even for users of other distros.

[@JoeMooney]

Arch is great, just make sure you have the maintenance dialed in. These days, I've moved to Endeavour, friendlier community over there.

[@saygo-png]

"I don't see a reason to use another distro" right after "I test software for videos and forget to uninstall, so now i have 2000 packages and need to reinstall" just use nixos already

[@qlx-i]

Tbh I used nix for a while and I think gentoo is better. In NixOS you write a lot of config and while that's technically a good idea, in reality you need to go and edit something each time you want to install/uninstall something. It's also annoying that you need to adapt every non-nix binary when you install them. Gentoo has a more traditional approach. It offers more customizability (duh), and manages software with a classic package manager. However it does have sets which are written in specific files you can edit yourself (including @world which stores packages you selected to install), and on which you can perform specific actions (e.g. --update, --depclean, etc.) In other words, emerge --ask --verbose --getbinpkg --update --deep --newuse --keep-going --quiet-build @world

[@whentheyD]

or you know run pacman with -Rsscun

[@kmdavidds]

WOOOOOOOO NIX MENTIONED

[@shamwaymoonyos9578]

I feel the same way. I use Arch Linux which I installed the regular way and went with KDE Plasma. It's been solid and see no reason to switch away. I started with Mandrake Linux 9,wenr with Gentoo at some point, stopped using Linux for a while, wenr with Arch and sti use it as my main OS.

[@BroccoliLand]

Brodie. You gotta encrypt your partitions the next time you clean install your rig. Even if you think it's unnecessary. I recommend LUKS encryption.

[@ThatLinuxDude]

That intro is amazing Reuse it next April Fools.

[@JoeMooney]

We agree on the kernel thing. Always have the LTS kernel, then any other kernel you want as long as you have LTS to fall back on.

[@Corpacra]

Which is your preferred root filesystem? > bcachefs

[@testales]

ZFS. It has everything that BTRFS has but more and better. Bcachefs may get removed from the kernel and I don't see why to rely basically on a single guy anyway.

[@angeldude101]

This, but unironically. It's certainly a very effective filesystem when you have a highly heterogeneous disk setup and when there's little correlation between a file's path and its usage frequency.

[@max_uaminecraft1827]

​@@testalesand then ur kernel updates and your zfs pools don't mount

[@testales]

@@max_uaminecraft1827 No. With pacman, I can simply select a kernel that has a ZFS module and CachyOS handles everything automatically. Before I knew about this and even had CachyOS, I was worried about that issue too though. But since there's always the latest kernel and a fitting ZFS module in the repository, I don't have to worry about ZFS being left behind.

[@sprinklednights]

@@testales I'd 100% use ZFS if it was natively supported on Linux where it would be as simple as formatting a disk with ext4.

[@-ism8153]

I like tty because, even if it doesn't matter on modern computers (a lot doesn't actually matter on modern computers), I like knowing that my terminal is running through as little as possible- no GUI, no fancy rendering if I don't need it, no x11 or wayland. I also think it's cool to set up whatever elements you might miss from the GUI in this minimal environment, though then you start spending most of you time in a terminal text editor or file manager.

[@xgui4-studios]

you are a different species .... you are not a homo sapiens..... more like nerd minimalus

[@kittysreview9055]

Fedora

[@GuzikPL4]

6:04 you mean Catalina Collection? I didn't knew you were into this stuff, man

[@tutacat]

I like Firmware/UEFI, but Windows likes to mess up your boot order sometimes.

[@bellissimo4520]

I wonder why Bazzite OS is then based on Fedora? I mean, as I understand it, they started out trying to update outdated packages in SteamOS, but then for some reason switched to Fedora entirely.

[@Wkaelx]

When I build up enough courage I'll instal arch... I'm afraid of ghost.

[@samuelsurfboard9887]

Arch is just goated if you know the packages you need and if you know how to install it, also the aur, chaotic-aur, paru, etc, means any package as long as it exists on Linux is on there, not searching websites or building from source

[@yusefaslam9675]

I have had a good experience on pretty much all the distros I've tried. Since I cannot pick which one to use anymore, I use three distros: Debian, Slackware and Arch on three systems. The Debian system is a Mac Mini and it works well. The Slackware system is my laptop and it works well and feels quicker than Debian but that may be placebo. The Arch system is a Raspberry PI running the ARM version of Arch. I use ansible to update all three systems from my laptop using one command. This is my fix for indecision.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

Arch is poor man's Gentoo.

[@kevinsteinman8967]

Well said.

[@Odoben_rosmar]

Having two kernels installed is a given when your distro always keeps the previous version as a fallback after an upgrade. I do wish Arch also did that.

[@exp2745]

Meanwhile, Silverblue users don't feel the need to make such claims, considering we all know the truth is self-evident... I use Clear Linux BTW, for I am not worthy of such perfection.

[@xperience-evolution]

Can you recommend Clear Linix for daily use. I hate that they don't push it more.

[@demerdemer328]

It Clearlinux easy to install with Nvidia GPU and KDE?

[@SIackware]

I'd like to take a look at Clear Linux at some point, especially its compiler optimizations and performance tuning aspects. How have compilation times on Clear Linux been for you?

[@HouseAIwaysWins]

​@@xperience-evolutionIt's an excellent distribution if your use case includes stuff like high-performance computing, machine learning, code compilation etc since Intel have optimized and fine-tuned the distribution exclusively for squeezing as much performance out of their processors as possible. I wouldn't recommend it for general-purpose use. Its focus is primarily enterprise, servers, cloud and VMs. Its repos are tiny (Intel recommends flatpaks for installing software) many drivers are missing, community support is lacking, GNOME is the only DE, athough you can install other DEs it's generally not advisable.

[@Cyco_Nix]

It is subjectively a top-tier distro despite not being relatively newer than the OGs like Debian, RHL/Fedora, etc. Objectively, it is a distro.

[@jakethesnake2264]

Started using Arch about a year ago when microsoft announced the dumb recall thing. First time daily driving Linux but it's been a great experience and I've even started using Gentoo on my laptop

[@chaosDesigner9]

So, I haven't used Arch at all. As I've said in some other videos of yours before, I currently use Mint. That said, I'm pretty convinced that I actually wanna use it on the desktop PC I wanna build. We'll see how that goes.