My New Desktop

Time for a change... This is a big one! Wayland... Hyprland... Systemdboot... I've done it all.
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[@ChrisTitusTech]

It should be noted this is NOT stable! However, if you want to go on an adventure or see me flail around here was the 4 HOUR live stream! - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXXQfXZ4fp5_aqc Website guide (not for beginners) - christitus.com/my-new-desktop-hyprland/

[@donaldmickunas8552]

Most distros offer steam in their repositories.

[@tuvantran660]

Hello Chris, I am a fan of your work. Your videos are always amazed me and an inspiration to me join the Linux world. I just have 1 question, Could you recommend to me some resources to learn the basic of Linux desktop so I could build my owns ? Thank you so much

[@nepalposttv]

is there any esy way to install mac os ...

[@yukendhiran8043]

Hey Chris have a look on redox os

[@donaldmickunas8552]

@@nepalposttv If you mean on a non-Apple device, the answer is no. There is an approach called Hackintosh which attempts to install a hacked version of an Apple OS. Chris did a video on this a few years ago. It has serious limitations IF you can get it to work. Apple’s move to the M1 chip pretty much rules this out.

[@manuelgeorgiev4438]

Man that all looks amazing, I would love to see a more in depth explanation of the Windows VM integration as well as the whole Arch side setup!

[@NPzed]

I second the motion!

[@testingstuff6111]

@@NPzed I second theI second

[@whylde7834]

Thirded

[@megadaveeeeeeeeeee]

4th ed

[@caretchara]

same

[@lex_darlog_fun]

Hi Chris, What would be *VERY* interesting is a detailed walkthrough-guide on your "not just a VM, but a *specialized* VM". As soon as I heard "GPU passthrough", I immediately got to the edge of my seat. I'm a long-time Linux wannabe (using penguin only for my selfmade NAS so far) and THE ONLY things that stop me from swithcing to Linux are: - Games which I *DO* want to play with DLSS/hdr/etc - Win-only professional CG software. We all hate adobe and yet we all are still stuck with it.. ... But also, we all have CPUs with a plenty of cores nowadays. Even if I'd have to dedicate one core / 2 threads from my 8/16 - I'd immediately switch to Manjaro with no second thought, *BUT ONLY IF* I'd get *exactly* the same full "windows-on-bare-metal" experience in any other sense. And I believe, there are plenty of people like me. The entire CG community basically consists of people who are either adepts of Tim Cook cult or looking for any way to avoid upcoming forced migration to Win11.

[@lex_darlog_fun]

@Fantastica I believe, they're convoluted because a "good™" virtualization is itself convoluted. But yeah, the lack of tutorials on the subject kills me. Those, which do exist - they're definitely not for beginners. Not even for advanced users. Not for "power-users". They're for literal sysadmins, who do this stuff as their main job they dedicated their whole life to. Being a power user myself, actively promoting stuff like KeePass, PowerToys, SyncThing, DoubleCommander and even maintaining my own self-made home NAS, I'm still overwhelmed by how steep the learning curve for " *performant* Windows on a VM" is. It's not even a curve. It's a wall. Inclined TOWARDS user. And almost falling to crush them.

[@lex_darlog_fun]

@Fantastica Me too. I just attempted to explain *why* the problem even exist.

[@Dekken__]

I switched to Linux for 3 months, and came back yesterday on Windows because I was tired of switching OSes when I wanted to play games. It became too annoying to allow it anymore. So this setup is just insane to me, because it's all I've ever wanted, just like you.

[@JamieAlban]

I believe it only works with desktop GPUs when I looked into it fwiw

[@v01d_r34l1ty]

@@lex_darlog_fun what virtualizer are you using? VBox? Vmware / ESXi? Win Hypervisor? Qemu? It's convoluted because GPU passthroughs are also typically not an OTB feature for consumer virtualizers.

[@raminsamadi]

This is probably the best OS experience I've ever had. Animations, performance and ui are amazing. Have not seen anything like it yet. I hope there will be an easier install for this, until then I'll use a backup. 👍

[@RadioactiveBlueberry]

Pulling out 56 seconds uptime after all the stuff you managed to do since the last boot, is very impressive. Productivity at its peak.

[@DriveandThrive]

Only took him a few hours haha

[@memo_force]

we need an installation video for beginners and your customization.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

This isn't ready for beginners yet... Soon though it will be! I'll make a script and another video when it matures a bit more.

[@joelnordangard3679]

@@ChrisTitusTech Cant wait for the script! I've been dabbling around in Linux for some time and always trying to learn new things. This looks stunning and I would love to have this setup as "my own" someday!

[@mylinuxstruggle5495]

@@ChrisTitusTech Every-time I think I can't be a Linux user you always show me new ways I could have had success. I love this video.

[@obiforcemaster]

@@ChrisTitusTech I'm curious. You said that this implementation is using a full pass through of your GPU with Looking Glass. It was my understanding that Looking Glass requires 2 GPUs (one for the host and one for the VM). Therefore, how are you able to use only a single GPU?

[@ChrisTitusTech]

@@obiforcemaster I'm using 2 GPUs

[@LeDragoX]

It's always amazing to see your creations!

[@belaircomputerguyllc4001]

definitely one of my favorite channels. You were on the edge for a second there, about a year ago, but the comeback has been amazing. As a tech firm owner, I've learned a ton from you. Thank you for the vids.

[@dprgrmmd]

On the edge of what?

[@0xg484]

Dude was edging non stop ​@@dprgrmmd

[@Torxed]

I think the boot entry name is an artifact from `archinstall`. Apologies for the half confusing default :) We can add `arch_` to the entry name.

[@vencemarron]

This is amazing! The animations are so smooth! The top part of the screen is very informative but not cluttered! This may be your masterpiece. I'd even pay for this. I'd love to do this on my Fedora...

[@louisfifteen]

This is way beyond my paygrade. I'm out of here

[@christiangonzalez6945]

Lol

[@whylde7834]

As someone who started on Linux 18 months ago and dove right into Window Managers etc. It's not as crazy as it sounds, and the documentation and community support is generally top notch. If you are interested in this, you should give it a go.

[@me234234]

Actually if your someone who is smart enough or has the patience to learn this all I can see how people find this better because if your smart enough or can learn this it can be a lot faster to pull things up when you need it even in a instant which is a very cool and neat trick and can even save some time.

[@mat_max]

It's like customizing shoes and tuning cars. At the end of the day is something you do because you like the process itself

[@julianstephen1303]

Don't give up ...its not as complicated as it seems...

[@joelnordangard3679]

Would love a guide on the Windows VM setup you have here! GPU passthrough looks really interesting! Keep up the amazing work!

[@umop3plsdn]

i've been daily driving hyprland for almost a year now solidly and I couldn't have had a better time. Literally PERFECT

[@MCgranat999]

Naming your store CTTstore is both, something I should expect and on the other hand, the most genius name style a YT channel store can have nowadays xP

[@simeonjohnston5941]

The Win VM is exactly what I’m looking for and would love to see a video on that setup.

[@P4NCH1]

Maaaann, that look gorgeous! It brought me back to 2009/10 CompizFusion times but with all the current improvements!

[@Mockedarche_old]

that is insanely clean and really lean. I personally am not a fan of the top menu items (feel like the benefit of that information vs the space isn't worth). But I will say that is probably my goal setup. It's so dang snappy and seems like a great work setup.

[@bstar777777]

I recently setup Hyprland (now that I have an AMD card) and it's been pretty incredible. No issues getting it going on Arch, but I did need to use the AUR extensively and had to use Xwayland for some things. My only issue with Hyprland is that I realized that I really don't like auto tilers. I've been using i3 for a couple years now and it's just better for me. My plan is to finish configuring Sway and ultimately move to that, but it's a pain to get that to where Hyprland is out of the box. These wayland based tilers are incredible and wayland is ready for prime time, but I also have no issues using Xorg (I'm in i3 right now). What I time to be alive.

[@taylrthegreat]

This is like the best I've seen your desktop and I was a fan of the og ArchTitus the fluidity was so smooth with hardware in consideration

[@gauravsrivastava17]

Looks amazing And we should appreciate the hardwork you do

[@HikariKnight]

Thanks for the quickpassthrough shoutout! i should be back to working on it after march as i am in the middle of sorting out personal stuff and have been for a while, however i made sure to get quickpassthrough feature complete for passing through your 2nd graphic card before i had to go on my hiatus and i have actually been using it for all my passthrough VMs for the past year. The only thing it does not handle as of right now is single gpu passthrough and taking into account systems with an active ACS override in either kernel or firmware level (i have a motherboard with firmware level ACS override, its pretty sweet), other than that the project is stable 😄

[@peterjansen4826]

If people want to switch desktops, have fun! I don't do it anymore, I just change the wallpaper. I have a systemtray, I use xsetroot for some extra things (date,time,RAM-usage, whatever you want) and I have a panel and dmenu and a lot of hotkeys. What more do you need on a desktop?

[@jason-budney7624]

Nice to see what came from that live stream Chris, I had to leave before it ended. Hyprland looks awesome, and I'll have to play around with it if I ever finish my other projects. I can't wait for Wayland to be adopted into more desktop and tiling managers, it's why I'm using Gnome right now.

[@agentooe33AD]

The AMD Ryzen 5000 series are great CPUs. The one you're running is pretty solid 6c/12t. I'm running a 5800x myself, and see no reason to upgrade. Right now I'm working on migrating my data to a new SSD so I can free up a couple of the ones I'm currently using so I can do some Linux learning and experimenting. I'm glad you put out these videos, so when I'm ready, I can go through and dive into the Linux world.

[@eric-.]

right. he's disparaging his 5600x, meanwhile i'm eyeballing my i5-8500 like "hey, can you load GIMP that fast?"

[@LupusYonderboy]

Every time I watch your videos, your desktops make me wanna forget all about Windows. This new one looks utterly awesome. I'm slowly getting there.

[@NoxyYT]

I'd love to switch to this kind of setup. I'm wondering how user friendly can looking glass and windows vms get. I'd rather have windows VM in linux than linux VM in windows (wsl2 is awkward when it comes to networking).

[@JoseAlvarez-gk8cf]

new to linux here but damn this configuration is awesome. I wish I was this tech smart to do this. great video by the way !!

[@mbele3000]

OMG Thank You are amazing! So happy to see somebody finally pushing Wayland to its full potential!

[@Driftwood420]

Nice to see there's something like quick passthrough now. The last time I had a setup like that I had to do everything manually which was by no means an easy feat. Must have taken an incredible amount of work to make QuickPassthrough

[@zluzhy5108]

Amazing video man! Would love to see how you sett up the vm through Looking Glass!🙌🏻

[@jogiwa2002]

You basically achieved reverse wsl, we need an in depth video.

[@ADeeSHUPA]

あっぷ

[@MthaMenMon]

you still need two gpus though. Kind of a shame nvidia & amd is still preventing us from splitting into vgpus ;( may virgl and virvk save us all

[@chkpwd]

Chris, this setup was truly nice to see. You should def make a video about this.

[@ChrisDeger]

cant wait for the fully automated video this looks amazing

[@xperience-evolution]

Nearly got a heart attack when that "Windows Update" showed up in the bottom right corner. I still have nightmares of that. So relieved I don't have to use Windows anymore. That thing is like Russian Roulette

[@zeal514]

I am so excited to start my linux journey. I been mucking around with it from time to time, in VM's, nothing serious. But I finally got a NAS, to run my Plex Media Server, and host all my files, and Linux is getting much closer to being perfect for gaming. Im taking the dive now. My NAS is in the midst of checking drives and creating its raid setup. I should be in Linux tonight... While I am comfortable with terminal commands (not knowing syntax, but I understand the concept), I still think I will go Mint, just because I do need a stable daily driver. But this is a CLEAN setup. This right here is goals.

[@neon_Nomad]

Unrelated but i wanted to thank you i went through your old videos and was able to improve network and applications load speed 10x. Most any application i use immediately starts and the more clunky ones take mere seconds

[@danijelpavlovic9871]

Please make into a script + video on looking glass + passthrough that looked mad.

[@WolfRites]

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out in the future. Looks great so far.

[@KadeSound]

a script would be wonderful. thanks for the informative video!

[@indaskyl1v3yx]

This is THE ... i must try to do it!!!! just feeling it Chris the open windows just for the feel... ufff. and that vm taking to another world is crazy!~

[@Youifer]

I havent touched linux in over 6 months, this put a fire in me again gonna try to set up an environment again hopefully tomorrow like this and go thru all the passthru stuff. cheers!

[@darknetworld]

It nice to see people doing some great design the layout.

[@itzamedave6242]

"because that's what I'm known for" 😜 lmao 🤣 blow it up!

[@JustWhyFFS]

Spun this up last week. The twm was great; being able to infinitely open within each window based on where your mouse is pointed is a pretty cool feature. Sure it's only marginally useful, since a teeny-tiny window inside another teeny-tiny is un-usable but still, cool. Edit: And SDDM isn't the only login manager having problems on this spin of ARCO. I used LY and also had issues.

[@BusinessWolf1]

...how

[@shash0_0]

"The future of Linux looks kinda insane". I'm so excited!

[@phrtao]

I had noticed how slick Wayland is getting and you don't need the latest and greatest hardware either. I use KDE plasma and I think you should check out what is coming with plasma 5.27 (Plenty of improvements for Wayland and new tiling features as well)

[@LC-mq8iq]

What improvements does wayland provide over X? I've been considering switching, but really don't know why I should.

[@df3yt]

For me...most notably a smoother experience animation and gaming wise. Otherwise it's very limiting and most apps are buggy with it. No proper screen recording etc. I don't use OBS as I find it too buggy.

[@df3yt]

@@youdontknowme2508 Thanks I'll look up wf-recorder, currently I use Voko and SSR - simple and reliable.

[@null643]

There's not even color correction profile on Wayland so I'm not using it

[@draftofspasiba2]

X makes KZbin videos in 4K laggy or weird, while Wayland (not Xwayland) does the job smoothly without a single stutter or something like it ( and I do have a 18 cores cpu and Vega 7). Also the most annoying and important thing that I switched to Wayland is because when I press the volume/bright button in anything Fullscreen it would just either minimizes it or completely freeze the screen for 1s (everytime I press it). Wayland is doing good rn, I didn't have that much of a good experience in KDE but in GNOME it has been very good support so far.

[@Psychiatry.321]

You don't have TPM 2.0 chip enabled (or detected) on Windows 11. 3:07 *Either Dedicated TPM 2.0 Chip or fTPM (Intel PTT), always can be viewed using device manager or tpm.msc*

[@appuser]

So can you pass through your GPU to windows for no-compromises 144hz online gaming without having to switch monitor channels? How was that accomplished?

[@AbhinavKulshreshtha]

Please Do a video on looking glass + passthorugh walk through. Github is awesome but nothing beats a good video to ingest information

[@donaldmickunas8552]

Hey Chris, So, you’ve returned to your first love, Arch. I don’t blame you. Have fun rocking Arch and Wayland. Great video.

[@ArniesTech]

Chris "Fancy Desktop" Titus. Looks good, man 💪😎

[@Wintelburst]

That is absolutely beautiful desktop! So cool! Thank you for these inspiring videos

[@erb34]

So quick and slick... I'd be moving windows around all day just for fun.

[@sharktooh76]

Bleeding edge is always a fantastic experience... until it breaks. But we always know how to fix it because we've been there soooo many times 😅

[@zhahirzulkufli1861]

Indeed..🤣

[@akash_gupta]

That's a beautiful desktop. I'd never log off with a setup like that.

[@jurgenblick5491]

Good to see you again. I value your information that you give

[@BUnpyott]

I would love to see a detailed video on how to set up your current VM set up!

[@ShawnBotha]

Love the tutorials as always well-prepared end easy to understand - Thanks for the effort and time taken to make it easier for us to learn and grow.

[@aamira]

This is everything I have ever wanted from linux. Everyday I use kubuntu I hate how it feels and looks like a budget copy of windows. But yours! Would love to see a video showing how to set it up from the very beginning.

[@wikingagresor]

You realize, that with kde there are so many options to make it look good ...

[@eric-.]

buddy. if that's how kubuntu feels to you, you're not doing KDE right! 😅

[@rabidwallaby84]

The Windows VM setup is very intriguing to me. I love using Linux, but there are a lot of compatibility issues with my Asus ROG G712LV. Being able to pass through my 2060 and USB ports would be incredibly useful!

[@Psoewish]

I’ve been using hyprland for a while now and while I did have to relearn a bunch of things, I found myself walking away actually preferring those. My favorite Wayland native app is the foot terminal, which operates on a daemon/client mode (kind of like emacs) and it is so damn fast.

[@LarsOksendal]

This is great content. More Wayland VM stuff, more VM GPU Passthrough and preferably more Arch Linux with setup of your own repo so that you can test and update the packages whenever you feel like.

[@ValtaKash]

I have never seen this guy’s videos or even heard of him but when I saw this in my recommended, I knew this was gonna be some cool Linux shit

[@imalsoTOMATO]

This video came out in perfect timing as I watched the first half of the stream but I never knew what the end result was. The question I wanted to ask is does Looking Glass work for single GPU solutions or you have to use a dual setup like the one you have here?

[@sprtwlf9314]

Such a cool video. That setup looks amazing!

[@NOPerative]

Nice job. The env makes my temps rise - awesome.

[@evrypixelcounts]

That VM with pass-through would be very good for the small handful of games I never actually play, but more importantly allow me us my audio software (FL studio) without having to dual boot or risk using wine.

[@df3yt]

This is why I can't change away from Arch. Just so easy to install a new app you just read about or want to try. No adding this repo and disabling that one. AUR rocks. I def have to give this setup a try

[@ChrisTitusTech]

I really love NIX for other distros. I'm not a fan of the AUR, but the ease of use is there for some things. I really do like Arch for bleeding edge stuff and trying stuff out.

[@fredlthefred]

Hi Chris, i wonder if you tried out moonlight and it's shortcuts ... thinking about giving arch and hyperland a shot, but before jumping through all the hoops to set it up just to realize that moonlight isn't working (which will be a valuable learning experience of course) - maybe you could do me/us a favour and give it a shot? another thing would be screensharing via msteams browser version -- but i understand that this usecase might not be relevant for lots

[@eric-.]

I was sitting here watching, like "meh, pretty cool or whatever"... 11 second reboot time, not bad... but that GIMP loading time, holy hell!

[@garlicus]

I would be very interested in a performant gpu passthrough video, or website guide

[@darthkielbasa]

11:09 Linux and FOSS has changed my world. There aren’t many things in my home that don’t run a Linux kernel. Amazing.

[@15chris45chris]

Loving the content. Answering questions I didn't know I needed to ask for!

[@asdf51501]

That looks really slick! I would love to watch a video that slows down and goes into great detail on what you did and how.

[@disnaut4935]

This would be a fantastic video going over how to do all of this. I am new to Window Managers, and I'm having a rough time configuring Awesome, but i'll get there. Good video! makes me excited.

[@jwc865]

This is awesome. Please make a script to do all of this!!! And I love what you did with your windows virtual machine

[@guillaumehuardhughes1091]

"I'm only on a Ryzen 5600X here" I mean, that's not that bad haha. In the context of if you are able to run a DE, I was thinking you'll say something like a Ryzen 1600X. Well its been fun to watch and Hyprland looks reaallllyyyyy nice! Thx

[@Sva010]

Zen 1 to 2 was superb 2 to 3 was nice but 3 to 4 is the lowest in increase

[@davidturcotte831]

Those terminal emulators are awesome. Great looking desktop and way more functional than most.

[@keepitshortandsimple]

I am looking forward more details about this VM and your Arch setup! And I would be really happy (and not just I am) to have a script for automation of your Arch setup!

[@GambiaTech]

I Hope the best for Wayland! Xorg is not maintained properly now..

[@HomelessDeamon]

11:18 that moment when OP describe their setup and "not even good" and you remember you still have 2013 hardware

[@HomelessDeamon]

yo @ChrisTitusTech, Why are you rubbing salt on open wounds man.

[@austinmcbride7139]

Finally got this thing running well. This needs more attention! More vids on this for sure pls!

[@groos3449]

Hyprland is the only Wayland compositor that works properly for me. Unfortunately there is a lot of missing features that I am used to in dwm so I can't switch yet (mainly keychords), also there is just SO much eye candy. I guess I'll wait until the qtile wayland is more mature and then finally make the switch

[@JacobP81]

5:30 I like the system monitoring in the system tray. That's a cool idea. Maybe I will look into getting a system monitor for my Linux's taskbar. I already have them as widgets on my Linux Mint and my Windows 10 also has a System Monitor widget on the desktop (Win10 doesn't typically support desktop widgets, but my Win10 is special because I did special tweaks).

[@josefschulz5069]

Nice to see that iam not the only one, who changes his wm, styles and toolsets frequently ;)

[@TimothyCarter]

now I've got to revisit my Hyprland experience -- it is awesome

[@strob5657]

Oh man that hot-switchabble VM is so neat, so cool

[@bharatjeevan]

Holy shit balls batman this guy's desktop is so snappy it makes me cry.

[@watynecc3309]

Thanks you for learning me about KVM and QEMU now I'm in my learning curve to do that in my Linux mint pc

[@ViniciusProvenzano]

This one of your coolest videos on a long time! Cheers! 🍻

[@yovelinpanayotov7973]

The only reason my main machine SSD drive runs on Windows is FL Studion and Guild Wars 2. If you make a video explaining your WIndows VM passthrogh will be highly appreciated! Awesome setup!

[@J43rv1]

man I had a lot of fun and success installing via your ArchTitus script. You really should make an update with this new bleeding edge setup

[@rekkalee2408]

Really want to see your Win VM + GPU passthrough video.

[@Jens_DL]

Love the video and your UI and animation looks amazing

[@slaynnyt8130]

Very nice desktop! Please do the video explaining the setup process of that VM 😀. Quick question about it: do you need two dedicated GPUs in order to send one to the VM, or could it also work with APUs like Ryzen 5600G, could I use the integrated graphics for Linux and the GPU for VM?

[@robertobs30]

3:18 yes please, this is the way to go

[@JustynTemme]

Thought you were just another linux KZbin channel until you said you got systemd as WELL as moving to Wayland installs for arch. you are a real user lol you get into the nitty gritty like me. pacstrap on my brother!

[@rush4360]

damn that VM is truly seamless, amazing!

[@drake19000]

Hey Chris, since you're currently on Arch, an ArchTitus update would be appreciated for those of us setting up a fast and bloatfree desktop like yours

[@alfajrdream]

Man, your videos are super nice. continue !!!