ArchCraft, A Unique Blend of Linux and Unixporn

Today, I'm taking a quick first look at the latest release of ArchCraft, an Arch-based Linux distro that features a highly customized openbox session, as well as a highly customized bspwm session. Archcraft is focused on being minimal, lightweight and stunningly beautiful.
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[@adityashakya]

Hey DT, Archcraft Developer Here. I would like to point out some things here, The purpose of this comment is, I can tell you what you missed, what you did not do correctly, and how you could have done a better and well deserving review. Also i hope i can convince some people here who you've misguided. 2:40 Get started, You could have clicked on it. 5:00 Help and Tips opened, You could have opened it. 5:10 Help and Tips is at the top in rofi menu, again you could have opened it. 5:24 No the panel should launch an App Launcher (like on most other DEs) and Right Click on desktop suppose to launch openbox root-menu, that's what and how openbox does it. 5:38 Mouse driven menu system is provide, But the openbox way which is Right Click on the desktop. 6:07 You're supposed to adjust the resolution via openbox menu (preferences > display). I mean you kept complaining how things should have done by openbox menu. 6:30 No, not weird at all. First WMs are supposed to be keyboard focused, So it is on Archcraft. Press the Enter key on pre-selected YES. And Yes... Mouse works as well, Unless you bothered to double click on it (rofi default BTW). 6:44 Yes, It won't. xfsettingsd won't let you. Arandr is there to manage multi-monitors only in Bspwm. In Openbox, you do it the Openbox way (again, preferences > display). You can do that via xfce4-settings as well, But then you manually had to reload polybar and restore nitrogen wallpaper (user don't have to do it manually that why I added that pipemenu in openbox menu) 7:16 And you finally get there... only if you've put some efforts before creating a video. 7:42 Yes, That's why its there. 7:55 It's important, and community knows about that as I've told them many times. 8:22 It's right there, first entry in the menu and I've manually put it on the top so that should be the first thing people open. however it does launch on first start of each WM. You just chose to ignore that. 8:32 all you did is laughed like a J*RK. 8:38 Right in front of your eyes. 8:46 No it won't. It's not a DE. It's a WM. 9:11 Correct, It has a plack/dock so you can manage you windows (ALT+TAB, SUPER+TAB can do that as well), pin your favorite apps to launch them quickly, It does acts like a taskbar too. 9:22 Wrong, Polybar can be used with Any kind of WMs whether it's stacking or tiling. I just choose polybar and not tint2. Also, there's a script for polybar that acts as task manager, polywins. Yes, It's present in Archcraft. And Easy mode uses that as well. Just don't be so self oriented, Other people does prefer other stuff. 9:46 Workspaces are not only important in tiling WMs, Workspaces are important on every Window Managers. How many windows can you open on a single workspace? Workspaces are very important in any WM. Again self oriented. 10:01 Instead of laughing, You could have press ALT+TAB, or you could have click on dock. 10:09 See... You got it back. 10:14 It's not useless, It shows you and let you manage so much important stuff. Volume, brightness, let you connect to network, shows you internet speed, let you quickly play music, switch to workspaces, much more. 10:32 Again, self oriented, Some people prefer other things. 11:39 Yes borders are not used in some themes. But you can still resize with title-bar corners, or with keybinding. 12:16 Windows wallpapers are for window eleven theme present in Archcraft. it does serve a purpose. 13:38 You did not, Well mpd is right in front of you, ncmpcpp is installed as well. And for videos... there's Mplayer installed as well. You should have played a video. Yes VLC is not installed by default, But that doesn't mean it has nothing for multimedia. 14:36 Those entries are auto generated, with gnome menuentires data. 15:39 That is not weird, It's your Damn VM. 16:00 by pressing SUPER KEY, That's how. 16:16 No Bugs, Just a design choice, for better UX. You're gonna love it too once you realize that, 26:38 17:21 Yes, No Flatpaks, No Snaps, Nothing... Not only because it's a minimal system but also Arch community hates snaps, and i do respect that. 18:25 Again, You keep telling about your choices, A developer does not create a Distro for one person's choice and taste. Just because it's not according to you, doesn't mean it's not right or weirdly done. 18:32 It's not more geared towards tiling, Openbox is primary WM of Archraft. You would know it if you bothered to open help and tips and read the About tab. 18:37 Funny, So called WM user tries to use a mouse over and over again. despite knowing it works on pressing Enter. 19:00 There you do again DT, You have it again, Look... There's About, Openbox, Bspwm, Tabs. Everything is right in front of you. What is what, how to operate a WM that is configured by some other person, By keeping the diversity of the users in mind, keybinding... In forms of table so that even a child can understand. do it man. 19:39 So many gusses, but no efforts to read the actual keybindings (it's super+c btw) 21:34 You won't. Same way you could not have guessed that it's just an alias for SUPER KEY. How would you know you did not read anything in help and tips. Wait, 21:12 There it it, line 142,143... Ksuperkey, yeah. Doing what it suppose to do. 21:54 Agreed, That's why you don't even have to press multiple keys to open it. Just Press SUPER key to open it and again, SUPER key to close it. 22:03 Man I'm laughing... 22:08 Bingooooooo... 22:19 What is... well is was right in front of your old eyes man, 21:12 23:10 BTW the resolution is just an issue with your VM, there's no problem on real hardware, No problem on virtualbox (which most people use i guess). 23:50 Trust me I'm laughing too man, on your stupidity. Usually when you use a WM configured by some other guy, the first thing you do is, you looks at their config structure. so you know, how the wires are connected. But... why would you bother. 24:29 Yes Sir... polybar.sh Eventually. 24:49 Thanks to your shitty VM 26:38 Well I'm glad you do like the SUPER key binding to rofi, you'd love it better if you just, once... once launch help and tips to read the bindings. 27:08 Yes sir, Two very highly customized WMs, and you've not even covered 5% of the customization and configuration. BTW, Archcraft also have pre-customized i3wm, dwm, xmonad, fluxbox, herbstluftwm, berry, which you can install as a package after installing Archcraft. It also has an XFCE and LXDE flavor. And so much more to offer. 27:25 Not Overly, Beyond Overly. You've done a horrible job reviewing Archcraft. DT, Man... I don't care whether you review Archcraft or not, Just don't do it wrong. The same way you did with InstantOS. 50% of the problems are causes by you stupid VM. I've not asked for an apology video and i won't. It just not right. You are trusted by so many people. Don't misguide them. People pay you to do the job, Do it correctly. Put some efforts man. Archcraft is not for everybody and i've told that to people many times. It requires the knowledge on WMs, Dotfiles, Configs, etc. Try to do a better job next time. Instead of just downloading ISO and firing it up on your VM, First spend some time with that particular distro, Explore it understand it, then tell people what it is and how it can be used. There's no team in Archcraft. It's build and maintain by me alone and I've done hard work on it. People who know and understand Archcraft, Loves it. And that's the only thing matters for me. Good Luck for future reviews.

[@priyanshusharma1812]

When I was watching the video myself I was also thinking what you're saying, I've been using archcraft since a long time and it's one of my favourite distros, thank you for all the good work, Dt simply didn't understand how to use it properly.

[@nuclearxdynamo8005]

Chad Aditya 💪

[@PieterPrinsloo]

I think one problem is that DT has a lot of videos to make and spends very little time actually in the distro making use of it. Just firing up a distro and commenting on the install and general first look can really misrepresent the distro to the users if they look at this as a full review. If anything this is a first-impressions video and doesn't show Archcraft for what it is. I have used Archcraft as a daily-driver for a year now and was quite frustrated watching this. The different themes of Archcraft is probably one of the best out there, giving completely different look-and-feel for each one. This however was not even mentioned.

[@pheel_flex]

Based

[@pheel_flex]

@@PieterPrinsloo The problem is that it's like his third "first impression" video on Archcraft

[@nul1]

Archcraft uses a program called ksuperkey to simulate alt+f1 as super key. And Rofi handles super as keybinding to escape rofi. And that customized polybar is in a script. Simply run "bspbar".

[@Axenide]

The "welcome screen" is called "Help and Tips". Also, in Rofi you have to double-click. I used Archcraft for two months, but the problem is that it has a VERY specific configuration. In a lot of cases you can't do the "common process" to do things, just like you tried to change the resolution. Anyways, it's a really good distro, with lots of themes. Basically unixporn without the effort.

[@nigelwheat]

This review is like watching a caveman review fire. Trying to comprehend something he just doesn’t understand and being upset when he burns himself.

[@jasonk4442]

exactly lol

[@kylestubblefield3404]

I love that you continue to troll the people with the strong and complicated password

[@tinatingles5419]

Archcraft is beautiful and a delight to use. But you HAVE to start out looking at the help & tips to get your bearings as it’s so keyboard-focused. Once you memorize the keybindings you need then it’s super efficient…it is so thoughtfully-configured. But you have to spend a little time with it.

[@johnjbateman]

This review didn’t sell me on trying Archcraft. Starting this review, then watching Aditya’s videos on it, reading the GitHub, and then coming back to this to see how DT used it (wrong) sold me. Just what I was looking for! I’m not skilled enough yet (or have enough time to learn) to customize an arch distro, so this is the perfect start.

[@voidvoid5151]

This distro looks incredible.

[@rachdaadilla1201]

Been using it for months, really awesome and speedy. The update also come with features. And the customization is unique, indeed.

[@aaryamanmathur7759]

The thing i love about archcraft is that it is very easy to customize as a noob.. Im a pretty novice linux user and archcraft is the distro which stopped my distro hopping

[@Doonutzs]

I'm a serial distrohopper and I hopped from Endevouros (it was awesome) to KDE NEON just because I wanted the newest KDE.(I haven't noticed anything new to be honest, I miss yay :C)

[@haydenthirties4534]

@@Doonutzs doesn't EndeavourOS have the latest KDE versions anyway?

[@Doonutzs]

@@haydenthirties4534 woopsie daises didn't know that. I'll try using archcraft next time (Probably this weekend to be honest XD)

[@ukaszwanczura9969]

I personally keep going back to it every now and again, feel a wave of nostalgia each time. But I couldn't fully implement it on my main pc as I had too many problems (as more or less a linux noob) with playing steam games that I didn't have on distros like garuda, and I'm not even sure why.

[@lucasvillani5484]

I've been using Archcraft for more than half a year now. It's wonderful for anyone that doesn't have the time to rice your own desktop. I have some complaints tho: • Sometimes the theme you selected changes after an update, it's rare but it happens. • In some themes, the buttons on the bar get off of your screen. • If you open an app and change the workspace while it's opening, the app will open in the workspace that you're on, and not the one that you were. Edit: I didn't update to the 2023 version so maybe those problems are already solved.

[@divith7564]

the last one isn't limited to archcraft, the app launches in the wkspc you're in when the GUI of the app first appears

[@moister3727]

Ricing is really nice, I've been carrying my dot files everywhere. But lately I haven't been into ricing thay much just because some applications brokenor look straight weird.

[@johnmichalek9802]

Out of all the crunch-bang style distros I’ve tested over the years, Archcraft is the best one I’ve come across. I installed it to a thumb drive and it works great. For people who love Debian, I would suggest Bunsen Labs.

[@6ujkyujhrbdfgjy5]

I've heard of ArchCraft for a while, never gotten deep into it. I'm glad you made this video though, otherwise I would never have considered giving it a chance.

[@ordinarryalien]

It's full of bugs, and bad design choices.

[@limpa756]

@@ordinarryalien and you have to pay lol

[@hana-gabana7598]

@@limpa756 i have used openbox for 4 months, and no, you do not have to pay. you can pay i think it's $1 for more custom themes. but i'ts great. it works great. ram usage at boot-up is 4-500 mb. lowest distro on that side.

[@blondie6507]

@@hana-gabana7598 its 23$ or more for a custom ISO. it's completely unacceptable

[@rebatnaath8790]

@@blondie6507 you can get many customized option on free one too but if you need more than that paying isn't a bad option

[@rhianor]

I've been using Archcraft for almost 3 months now, and is very stable. I use the i3wm.

[@marsdrums6298]

Arch on it's own is perfect for tiling window managers I think. When I switched to Arch almost 3 years ago now (February 2020) my main goal was to not run a desktop environment like Cinnamon or MATE or KDE. I wanted something VERY different (to me) running on my machine. I'm glad I did that. I love tiling window managers! Awesome and i3 especially. I live in Awesome pretty much.

[@colbyboucher6391]

Well, yeah. This is literally just Arch with a lot of stuff preconfigured for people who don't feel like going through the trouble of doing it themselves and want an ISO they can slap on a USB so re-installation is way easier. I learned to configure Arch myself, In theory I love the idea of making my system mine and mine alone, but this is really nice for pure convenience.

[@bionic-beaver]

@@colbyboucher6391 That's why Arch now provides a installer, the point was never to be hard to install

[@dejanzabaljac6950]

Using Arachlabs for a long while on my 3rd pc, never had any glitches or problems. Tried Archcraft last year on laptop and had a ton of issues.

[@keatonhatch6213]

I’ve tried both didn’t have issues with archcraft but archlabs is solid. I will say I’ve had to update my keyring more than usual with archlabs

[@dejanzabaljac6950]

@@keatonhatch6213 I had same issue with keyring but only when i used Manjaro. Manjaro will just start glitching and crashing after several months of use. Maybe it depends from system and use...

[@zbarczy]

Crunchbang is not dead, it is called Bunsenlabs now, and it is indeed fast and good.

[@Curtis25]

Archcraft is my favorite distro and the new version is awesome. My only issue with it is that it's not really a rolling release distro (yet), as you have to reinstall it to use the 2023 version.

[@Doing_Time]

openbox is nice but rare to find fully implemented/integrated in a finished product; lxde was an oasis of usability in the wandering through the wilderness between kde 3's tragically premature death and tde reaching maturity; I don't actually tolerate any other linux desktop well, but I'm always open to trying and seeing new implementations. Thanks for saving some time for me...

[@yrjo5050]

You should try MaBox, its fully configured and has easy customization.

[@rtheben]

Much obliged for the awesome review

[@fubaralakbar6800]

This is why I prefer a full desktop environment over a window manager. I suspect Pop OS is going to be my daily driver for a very long time.

[@antikz3731]

Indeed. Its very impractical.

[@folksurvival]

@@antikz3731 Yes. Mate, XFCE and Cinnamon are the most practical DEs on Linux.

[@penguin2137]

give me Xfce or give me death.

[@fubaralakbar6800]

@@penguin2137 Give me Elementary OS, and I'll give myself death.

[@SleepeJobs]

Also has theme generator, the config templates are easy to extend to other custom themes

[@Jeff_Seely]

Was looking for a nice friendly beginner WM for young daughter #5 who has an iris 8 split keyboard. I decided on Mabox. It's a bit more functional and the conkys are very helpful for her. Also the Manjaro repos will give her very stable apps. I do like Archcraft though and will keep checking back with the changelogs. Give it another try, maybe. Thanks for the nice reviews!

[@GajendraMahat]

wow, I'm happy because now many OS releasing their OS with a tiling window manager😍😍

[@chrono5037]

I personally do use archcraft as my daily distribution. And i personally do like how openbox is set-up mostly. I even disabled plank. It isn't for everyone, but it is one of the better arch distrobutions

[@aldosierra8131]

If you watch closely at 4:54 you can see that the password is "dt" you can even use "," and "." to go frame by frame and watch, since is vm thats fine, but i didnt know this was a thing with sddm, you can just watch what the user is typing?? is this a bug? or it actually works like that?

[@priyanshusharma1812]

Archcraft already comes with a music player, but not a GUI one, it's ncmpcpp which is a frontend for mpd.

[@MerkDolf]

Does Calamares use GeoIP services or does it look at your BIOS/UEFI to suggest your time zone?

[@jeffrodrequez]

While I rarely disagree with DT...man this was frustrating to watch. I have been using Archcraft/Openbox as my daily driver for 4 months and love it. Highly functional, highly intuitive to those of us that have not really used a window manager type distro before. There was a bug that prevented resizing by mouse that has been fixed now. ESC on Rofi works for me and has since the beginning. The reason for the wallpapers is they are tied to the themes that are pre built in (as opposed to being "odd choices"). The dev and users are very active on Discord. I'd recommend it for those looking to try something new.

[@gentuxable]

Be careful you're exposing the very strong super secret password at the login prompt :D

[@bmmartin1684]

Is there a way I can install their custom Openbox rice on any other Openbox install that I have, say Ubuntu with OpenBox?

[@toranshaw4029]

Think I'll stick with Arco, when it comes to Arch based distros. +1 for VLC. I use it for both the audio and video files that I need to listen to/watch as part of my uni course!

[@Polar_Onyx]

mpv is light weight and does pretty much everything vlc does in a simpler ui. You should give it a try

[@Winnetou17]

#HeyDT Genuine question: you stumbled a bit on opening things and getting shortcuts and so on. You've had rofi opened multiple times with "Help and Tips" there. Why don't you try it ? I don't know for ArchCraft how useful it actually is, but I do think (and hope) it should've answered at least some of your questions. And people spent effort making it, it would be a shame to not check it, but get frustrated on things not working.

[@joshua_lee732]

The click to drag corner issue you mention at 11:44 is a openbox box issues not a theme issue unfortunately. THis is because openbox has not seen feature development since like 2008 or somehting like that.

[@GodEmperorSuperStar]

0:13 openbox was your first window manager? Why did you skip uwm?

[@Doonutzs]

Okay so this might sound crazy, but what if in the future Linux desktop and Mobile Linux are united? This could be possible with inmutable operating systems, allowing use to execute desktop applications even on mobile without noticing performance issues thanks to containarization.

[@penguin2137]

actually, GNOME devs have been developing the mobile shell for quite some time now, i don't know much about the current state of the project, but it looks promising. i've always thought that GNOME workflow is more suitable for mobile devices and this can actually hit it

[@BrokenGameboy]

Purism have been trying this for a while now.

[@Doonutzs]

@@penguin2137 wow that's crazy I didn't know it. I'm hyped now, hopefully I'll be able to help the community in the future once I learn how to program properly

[@Doonutzs]

@@BrokenGameboy I'll look it up thank you man

[@BrokenGameboy]

@@Doonutzs no problem. just be aware, nowadays they're considered a scam by the community. i didn't look into it too much though, so take it with a grain of salt.

[@driden1987]

I wanted to try this distro out the first time you reviewed it, I also want to try it out now. I'll probably do an Arch re install this year, might try it out

[@djkido316]

Actually there is a taskbar for Polybar and i've been using it since months now, Its called Polywins.

[@petezzzz]

This would have been a game changer in 1997..

[@aruncs3438]

after using archcraft for a bit "keybinding for the rofi laucher is just "super" or mod key or window key as you call it" "plank works as a good dock" and " polybar is the main thing in this distro and super helpfull in getting hardware status" "can't use plasma desktop becouse of some font color issue" "sometimes pipiwire take most of the ram ; dont know why , especially when using bluetooth" "themes and bspwm configs are hackeble" " Very Light weight " "some functions not work in old laptops like decrementing brightness value "xbacklight " can be used insted" overall good distro and one mistake you have made is that dt , you did not read their welcome notes it has it all .

[@Tikisri]

for rofi if you want to add back the escape to exit you need to edit the script they're using to call rofi

[@AdrianosPapamarkou]

Oh man, Archcraft made replace my system! It is so embarracing to find a distribution with two (2) different desktop environments configured, out of the box, better than my own after 1 year of tweaking... It is amazing. Good point about the top-left icon. The first thing I did, was to replace the default functionality with a nwg-drawer full screen icon launcher.

[@praneetguharoy3359]

IMHO instead of so many themes he could have focused on making polybar look good with bspwm and openbox .. the terminal still opens so slow on my vm.. personally i d prefer if its kept lightweight.. coz a thousand packages for a wm distro out of the box seems kinda excessive.. nevertheless kudos for the effort to adi1090x for making the distro.. its gonna get better with time i hope

[@boberman2me]

How to make bigger the letters of terminal? I am new user

[@willywantoknow2563]

I like your reviews. I'm looking for a distro that is plug and play with wine, office, music player etc. I don't like bloat, but I do like a functional workspace. I am a mac fan except for their forced comercialism updates (forced to update then forced to buy new machine to support it). I'm not accustomed to terminal computing. Wouldn't mind learing.... What would be best preprogramed distro? Guess i could run outdated mac OS offline and run partition linux distro for online when needed. (Distros I've tried: manjaro 8.12, manjaro, manjaro open box, mint)

[@patpopov]

Hmm, seems a bit style over substance. Crunchbang was solid, simple and functional and I'd take tint2 and gmrun/dmenu over this any day of the week. Looks nice though, if you like that sort of thing.

[@know_how_games]

I use archcraft bc it is beautiful and simple and I haven't had that many problems with it

[@twb0109]

Regarding the music player, if I'm not mistaken, they ship mpd+ncmpcpp

[@wolandsmachine]

I hate how blurred and dim Archcraft looks

[@KrolixWormix]

Usually you can't bind something to just Super, so in configs Alt + F1 is used as an alias(i guess it's the right word) for Super as a standalone key

[@distant6606]

that would only explain the alt part though no? the f1 key still feels really weird to press for smth as useful as rofi in a tiling window manager Edit: ah i get it now.alt + f1 is an alias to super somehow.

[@AtomicFeasT]

What actually happens is that in the RC files of both window managers a program called ksuperkey is used to emulate the pressing of the standalone Super key to Alt + F1. Basically the system simulates you pressing Alt + F1 when you press the Super key. I use this in qtile btw, so it can be used in various situations apparently.

[@theodorealenas3171]

You'd find yourself needing this trick in Windows a lot. You'd use Auto Hot Key there.

[@fritzz2]

You should show how to manual partition when you install we see erase all the time

[@jasperwright9237]

I can’t get Arch systems to work on my old Dell e6440 laptop. Surprise, Elementary os 7 works! Thanks for the info. God Bless.

[@cszabo8899]

A calamari installer. Delicious!

[@stevedodd295]

This seems to be an Alpha version. Not ready for prime time.

[@123sleepygamer]

I think your issue with lack of a toolbar to bring up minimized programs stems from Openbox using the same panel that they use for bspwm. In a tiling window manager having no app panel where they minimize isn't an issue and the panel is nice for system info but I can see how it's sorta pointless for a floating window manager. I just began using Archcraft, have it on my laptop dual booted alongside ParrotOS Security which runs KDE with some KWin scripts. I didn't use Openbox much on Archcraft, went straight to bspwm as I wanted to dive head first into a tiling window manager. You are supposed to learn the keyboard shortcuts for opening programs and moving around windows, very steep learning curve but it's starting to click for me.

[@ex0ja]

One thing I don't like is clicking some of those buttons there is no animation or colour change or anything to indicate you've clicked it. Feels like you are just clicking on a dead image.

[@YrmiZ]

I did not have any of those resolution problems with bare metal machine.

[@michaelwrest6145]

Would you prefer Archcraft to Mabox, for example?

[@BruceCarbonLakeriver]

And DT is still trying to escape from ROFI XD

[@carloanimationTV]

this is what I'm looking for Fedora could have

[@distant6606]

Disappointing to see that no arch linux derived distribution can surpass Arcolinux. Its almost pointless for 99.9% of arch linux derived distributions to even exist.The amount of tools, documentation, customization, support, options and default/out-of-the-box settings is just superior.

[@exnihilonihilfit6316]

EndeavourOS could.

[@distant6606]

@@exnihilonihilfit6316 not for twms though.arcolinux has pretty much all desktop environments-twms known to man

[@n0tjak]

​@@exnihilonihilfit6316it's the only good alternative period (except vanilla arch)

[@brettmiddleton5013]

For my case it’s not about having it all from the box. It’s about having the foundation to have it ALL. Arch is my template. Everything Linux will run on it. The play doom on anything will soon be play GTA5 on anything, in theory. And I’m coding it on a 10+ yr old intel laptop with little performance issues. Portably/remotely Stored. TLDR - lightest possible functional utility base install and variable packages

[@mucklus]

Archcraft is good at everything. But it has huge problems with sound adjustment.

[@studyisimportant-qy1dq]

Can u say how to connect wifi

[@annasmith5216]

i think endeavoros is a better option because has some styling but not quite as opinionated. and tons of de and wms to choose from

[@carakesa]

Counterpoint:. Archcraft is largely 'vanilla arch with themed WMs' Being too lazy to distrohop on my 'big' system, I just grabbed BSPWM and added the Archcraft configs to it My other system runs only Archcraft. Works great

[@rickbhattacharya2334]

Last time when i installed archcraft in my friends OS , he never looked back at Linux again. Yes it's not a spelling mistake 😂

[@fredmckinney8933]

Yes, they most definitely should have used Tint2 instead. Polybar? With Openbox? Seriously, Archcraft? (facepalm)

[@mattfromeurope]

Peanut butter and ketchup - not everyone's taste, but some may like it.

[@kpcraftster6580]

Arch is about spartan utilitarianism, this seems like the opposite of that. And I'm pretty sure SDDM is not supposed to display your strong and complicated password.

[@raeplaysval]

Wow that was very cool

[@HANHITSI]

I find it strange how the software is a mixture of KDE, XFCE, Gnome and probably some other DE's defaults. Also just overall kinda seems like it would feel like using someone elses PC :P

[@SimilakChild]

ArchCraft got a neat config. but I don't like how they charge money for the different desktop environments. its really better to just do it yourself. and hyprland with waybar has to be the best out there right now and everybody provides their dotfiles for free.

[@brendon205]

You know, you don't actually have to pay for it, the packages are available for free. Paying is just a way to support the dev

[@antikz3731]

In my opinion this is far too specific. It satisfies the user who mishmashed this together but thats it. What's the point of it? Why not use Arch regularly then customize it? Why not use Manjaro? All these little obscure and niche Distros are the reason that many people dont come to Linux. They feel overwhelmed with options and have so many useless "this sucks that sucks" nonsense being fed to them. We need to have a few MAIN distributions and to get them working stable then customization is a secondary thing. And as DT said its very subjective and not always practical. I personally love Arch but i use Manjaro KDE. I like the whole brand and team behind Manjaro, KDE is amazing these days and Arch... we all know what's good about Arch lol. Also,DT im gonna reach out to you on Reddit for something i forgot to message you on a while back. Awesome in depth video!

[@osamaanees8406]

My Depression is Stronger and more complected then your strong and complected password.

[@michaelthompson7217]

arch and unstable distributions like it are everything wrong with linux desktop and preventing further linux desktop adoption

[@Kuoxsr]

My first Linux desktop was Antergos in 2017. I've used (and evaluated) numerous other distros, and I keep coming back to Arch. Right now, I have that original Antergos install still running (and still solid), and another machine with Garuda (also Arch.) In the 6 years I have been running Antergos, only 3 updates have needed manual intervention (and one of those was still bootable, just not in my main profile.) Garuda has been slightly more finicky, but nothing I, as a newbie, can't handle. That's a pretty good track record for a so-called "unstable" system that shouldn't be run by beginners like me. Before Antergos, I was a Windows loyalist. I had tried Ubuntu (Jaunty Jackalope), but quickly decided it was not ready for prime time and went back to Windows. _Arch taught me to love Linux,_ and I haven't looked back since. My old Windows boot drive languishes unused in the bottom of a box somewhere because of Arch. ArchCraft? ...looks like pure crap. I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.

[@BrokenGameboy]

this is the most uneducated reply i have ever seen

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

Imagine that this was you first time trying to use linux. Oh boy.

[@everyhandletaken]

Fair chance that the first time, would also be the last time !

[@immortalcyanogen779]

3:43 I am always waiting for this part as this makes me laugh everytime... Strong and very complicated password "dt"

[@lonercheki]

i hope DT revisit Archlabs too :]

[@jgaming2069]

I had higher expectations

[@neotwenty-nineBzH]

Too many issues in vm @DT...like you... Mouse... Even keyboard issues. Very disappointing, as I've been following the project straight from the start. There's been decision taken recently too to monetize "Wayland" projects like hyprland... Well... Not convinced anymore

[@fabricio4794]

Whats Next? Arch HURD Kernel? Hahaha

[@dougtilaran3496]

Go get the latest Lilidog

[@joaopauloalbq]

19:18 ☠️

[@PeterPorsche]

23:24 Linux distro issues that prove poor QA.

[@rashedulhasanrafi162]

strong password for dt user 🤣

[@vwagenjetta]

I tried Archcraft once, and it's so heavily customized that making changes to it's appearance is difficult and causes major problems. Also installing Fish totally breaks it. Back to vanilla Arch for me...

[@HDR95]

Well, what do you expect from a heavily customized distro? This type of Distro is what I call the "Plug n Play" type, it's not for those that wanna tweak their system.

[@groos3449]

the only way installing fish would break the system is if you symlinked it to /bin/sh or removed bash and you should never use fish as your /bin/sh symlink

[@vwagenjetta]

@@groos3449 I don't remember doing anything like that, I just installed Fish and set it as my default, and everything went to hell. I asked about it in some Archcraft forums (reddit, discord, etc) and the response to my specific problems was that I had installed Fish. Seems a little sus, but I only used it for an hour before switching back to Arch.

[@groos3449]

@@vwagenjetta what do you mean by "everything went to hell"? Did the scripts stop working? If so, your /bin/sh was overwritten

[@flow5718]

What a clusterfuck of a distro

[@dougtilaran3496]

All sorta crap here running on USB, Those boys need a job at Chickz Fillet. Third or fourth time for me too. Arch/Openbox=Mabox

[@helloimatapir]

Another gimmick distro focused on looks for functionality.

[@maacpiash]

4:54 the password field revealed your _strong and complicated_ password. This is unacceptable UI behaviour.

[@DistroTube]

Time to file a bug report! P.S. It's possible that I knew about this behavior beforehand and entered a "different" password than my usual...just to throw everyone off. ;)

[@blondie6507]

@@DistroTube You didn't mention in this video that the dev were charging $20 for a custom ISO. The dev is a complete moron. I just checked and it's called Arch Craft premium and you have to donate 23$ or more to download it. I can't believe more people aren't talking about this. Forced donation to download a linux distro is unaceptable.

[@maacpiash]

Ah, very smart 😄

[@osamaanees8406]

@@DistroTube 200 IQ

[@abellacherabah6284]

Look at archcraft xfce

[@NeutronNonsenseCosmicCollision]

hi

[@Xcr-oj5ih]

Love your content DT... But........The Developer has some valid points..!!! Must be honest here.... You looked like a linux noob .....

[@lonercheki]

minimalist puzzle xD

[@AschKris]

all that and it doesn't look that good tbqh

[@SkyeReim]

the interface is better than gnome and kde lol. ironi

[@berxx33]

Dude, I just can't install it, it can't install bootloader

[@auronkardek]

unix what

[@vaishakhgk2006]

Will you take a look at Hyprland. I think its really good wayland window manager i switch to it recently from awesome and i liked it.

[@dakkomi]

Hi! am thinking of doing the same. I use awesome as my main driver but want to switch to hyprland. Is there anything you miss from awesome? is it worth switching to wayland?

[@andTutin]

password is just too strong and complicated

[@Brian-uq6jm]

Looks interesting, but that ArchCraft's dev's comment immediately turned me off. Nah, I'll pass.

[@secretzpt176]

If a dev defending his hard work turns you off, you are way too sensitive. In reality this was a poor review where DT seemed have his mind made up before even starting.