How to Install My Version of Linux

[@ChrisTitusTech]

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[@blevenzon]

Doesn’t have my size. Maybe next batch 😂

[@MichaelJHathaway]

@@blevenzon What is your size?

[@blevenzon]

@@MichaelJHathaway 4X

[@abhijain6359]

Thankyou Chris for giving your time, effort and simple explanation about Linux. It helped me alot in getting familiar with Linux. And I wish you and your family merry Christmas and best wishes. Love your videos. Please keep them coming. You're making a big impact on new Linux users and helping them getting familiar with the Linux. Thankyou once again. 😊🙏🏼

[@attutorials2121]

Great work titus! Even DT has made DTOS. Now users have choice for tiling window managers, debian - bspwm, arch - xmonad!

[@blevenzon]

Niiice! I was really looking forward to this. Thank you so much Chris. Can’t wait to explore and play around

[@MartinAhlman]

Very well done, and great to see you donating 50 % to Debian! It's very much needed.

[@borolo222]

Thanks chris. Just got a 500 gb ssd to dual boot with this. Will be my main driver. I hope live streams continue to develop it, priceless

[@divine_swine9665]

This is awesome! I’ve been waiting for this vid (as I prefer Debian over Arch). Don’t always get to watch the streams and I catch bits and pieces… last one I caught a little of, something wasn’t cooperating with you cause it couldn’t find the mirrors. Merry Christmas to y’all over here teaching and exploring Linux

[@martin4787]

Merry Christmas to Chris and the Titus family.

[@donreid240]

Hi Chris i have literally just git cloned and updated to your Debian while watching the video a big thanks for making it easy to understand

[@galfredo4242]

Looking forward in this project

[@MadmusicalHulk]

Great stuff ! Love your videos and tips. I’ve just done a clear out from my attic and rebuilt a couple of old pcs and got …… Opensolaris and Solaris working. The good old days 😊 I love geeking around.

[@RameshSharma-js9xm]

Merry Christmas to you.

[@meowcula]

Looks nice and slick, Chris. Been following along with you building it... though not as often as I would have liked. Can't always catch your live stream. I'm doing something similar and making my own bspwm both on arch and debian (on two different machines). Really liking debian actually!

[@CuriousMindsCentral]

What branch of debian are you using?

[@TheTNAHunter]

This comment doesn't have anything to do with this video. Didn't know how else to thank you. You gave me the courage to try to change my desktop environment and everything went wonderfully thank you. I've learned so much about Linux from you

[@josueveguilla9069]

Merry Christmas to you too, Chris Titus Tech 🎄

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Merry Christmas 🎄

[@josueveguilla9069]

@@ChrisTitusTech Thanks. You, too.

[@TheKrisKing]

I was following along but get stuck at the 'git clone' step. It asks for username and password

[@kylestubblefield3404]

Because debian-titus is installed on top of debian testing, I use it on my Kali install for work. I like the interface way better than the stock interface.

[@RobsonLuizRL]

Awesome! the customization that you did looks really nice.

[@UnhingedNW]

Shirt ordered! Gonna have to try Debian before it shows up. Been an Arch fanboy for a while.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

It's definitely a different experience, but I do love both Arch and Debian.

[@cooky842]

Can't wait to get home and try it in a VM. Who knows, maybe it's gonna be my next host. I'm using Manjaro ATM because I need the 5.12+ kernel but you seem to have 5,16 I'm gonna check it out, could be a better host :)

[@raddinox2707]

Finally someone running Debian SID :)

[@luigigiunta2400]

This is great, building a new PC today so I'll be setting this up on it!

[@siddharth-gandhi]

Amazing work! I really like the Nordic theme, it's very calming! Question: Will this work on WSLG by any chance? (with any sort of hacks)

[@tech.rajesh]

I'm not sure how to achieve this, but if I may, I would redirect your attention to Kali Linux in WSL. They have their own GUI for WSL. Maybe you can tweak it a bit and put on your own WM or DE.

[@tlouik]

@@tech.rajesh Bruh r/linuxmemes will kill him if he rices kali

[@raymondmcglynn3556]

Interesting, I had thought your ultimate system was Arch (as fmlazar had said in an earlier post) going by your previous videos, did you change your mind, outlook or were we both mistaken ? NOTE: My favourite has always been Deb

[@wyattt4575]

Awesome video! Just a thought, but could you make a complete guide doing everything manually instead of install Debian and grab my personal repo… then it’s done??? Could be a whole series of videos even. Thanks!

[@Gotblade]

Pretty cool project! I have been a Debian guy for many years. But even it installs a lot of stuff I would rather wasn't so integral that you lose the desktop to get rid of it. I look forward to a version of your project that is a little closer to my troubleshooting abilities. Merry Christmas!

[@Nikolai508]

I really like that with the Debian installer that you get to just choose which DE you want to use.

[@kushagrakumar163]

I am having an issue with that. Whichever de I choose, the display manager service of that particular de just stops again and again. I am even unable to get to the busybox shell(Ctrl+alt+f1) so that I can try tinkering around systemctl to fix display manager, it just goes blank. Dunno what to do🥲

[@jason-budney7624]

Merry Christmas Chris! I'll be playing with Debian-titus in a VM. The whole window manager thing is intriguing, but have had issues with running Handbrake GUI with them. Thanks for the link to Debian testing, it's a PITA to find! I hope to switch to plain Arch or Debian soon. Manjaro is getting too heavy handed in their approach to Arch for even my basic understanding of linux.

[@jason-budney7624]

@Dio Titus Not allowing grub customizer and a few issues with dependencies for GIMP that only affect Manjaro quickly come to mind.

[@-r-3542]

@Dio Titus Most people are just new to linux and break everything everytime..so im not surprised

[@thzzzt]

I get the impression most Linux users spend 80% of their time installing and maintaining their system and 20% using it.

[@dampdigits]

Yes

[@SS-ARYAN]

Correct.

[@118andrey]

Most people use linux for the sake of using linux and not because they need it

[@Kromiball]

Zipf's law? I'm probably in the 20% who use Linux 80% and 20% installing and maintaining it.

[@helenacoolkid]

​@@118andrey thats the fun part

[@pw1762]

This graphical install of Debian reminds me of the ms dos 6.22 installation!!!

[@SilverSeleucid]

can i do this on debian stable? i tried running the script and all it did was install nala and change my shell around

[@phoenixbyrd79]

Can you update your raspberry pi image or do a video on your thoughts on using box86/wine on your pi 4?

[@MoshPit_ato]

Taskbar along the top all in monochrome for me... and when I click on the power icon I'm getting placeholders for icons. FYI using VirtualBox

[@MiniSmith1]

I am having the same issue

[@Baraxa]

Me too

[@ChrisTitusTech]

This should be fixed now!

[@MoshPit_ato]

@@ChrisTitusTech thanks for posting back and the update. Have re-installed. The task bar icons are now all present but when I click the power button I still see icon place holders (if that makes any sense). Using VBox and installed the Guest Additions. I'm thinking this may just been an issue with VBox. Will try and run via QEMU when I get chance 🙂

[@kylecurry6841]

Right on! There is only one Debian, and nevermind the cute Toy Story Theme (theirs a true backstory of why that's a thing for Debian) but it's still my tried and true no matter how many times I've tried to run an Ubuntu distro in its place! Edit* Nice work on your own sub-distro, for a while I loved peppermint, then I tried Sys76, but lately I've disregarded the theming given I usually run headless unless the project requires or benefits from a desktop, but like many I've been wanting to see the next successors to the latter two mentioned for desktop Deb based distros..

[@HJDK944]

Love the work. Thanks Chris.

[@SApcProSergijAleksovski]

Thank you very much for making this Chris, I will definitely try it!

[@acesbazaarhealth2246]

That’s a cool way to do it. I am building a new system and I was think about using arch or Ubuntu server and adding my own desktop but I think I like this better…

[@Noir_SD]

I have been using this for at least a month and it's really fast, no stability issue and really a great choice to as a daily driver.

[@jpaugh64]

I really appreciate this video! I remember how much on-going work it is to set up a custom DE like this; I'm not ready to do that, yet, but I'm curious to try the tools you use which I haven't used before.

[@palimihai4922]

Hi Chris! i just want to say that i really respect you, because you pour your heart into the projects that you make public for free. I love you :D

[@sim9955]

Great stuff, Chris!! Wondering if you can do a video on sunshine setup with AMD gpu?

[@vaisakh_km]

Amazing...😃 One recommendation... Can you increase font size... Or while installing, can you zoomin that position of video where you are typing... It is harder to see on phone....

[@MrJueKa]

Merry Christmas ✨❤🎁🎄😊👍🍻

[@rainyonrecord]

I'm not too advanced in Linux but this was relatively easy to get set up and pretty nice to use as a daily OS I did read a few books on Linux and shell scripting a while back so I'm pretty comfortable with the command line and Vim/Vi etc. (anybody who wants the books for some reason: The Linux command line and shell scripting bible & The Linux bible & the other is if you are into *ethical* hacking the kali pen-testing bible)

[@dizz1934]

still using ?

[@BHKristiansen]

Been using arch with material awesome for about a year now, its working fine. But in the beginning a lot of trials and doing plenty of backups when something crashed it..anyways, gonna try this one since agreed that debian is alot more stable.I was on it before arch but audio trouble landed me with pipewire and it just seemed to work better in arch(prob since debian 10 was used :D) Anyways, great work titus! btw, love the method of having programs all starting up in a few dotfiles, thats gonna be useful.

[@learningbird9940]

Thanks Chris. Another great video and a solid choice with Debian. But you say "let's install Debian Testing" and then your script pulls the packages from Sid?

[@learningbird9940]

@Dio Titus So...he gets Sid after upgrading, not Testing. Not that Sid is bad, Siduction uses it very well.

[@plica06]

I really appreciate seeing this very different way of using a computer. But it's definitely advanced! I'm guessing it's a good basis for what you showed in a recent video.. accessing several other OSs that are running on physically separate machines, each in a separate Desktop available from that lightweight Debian OS.

[@steinbauge4591]

Very interesting but as I was now just looking for a simple fast system for my sister's old laptop.. a little too complex..

[@PrashantKumar-ei8lu]

I am eager to try this;can't wait. I am personally more inclined to xmonad build.

[@nisterror]

I tried the debian titus install from your git hub, but i was not able to complete it. There is no wifi driver so i could not complete the steps as outlined in your video guide. I was trying to install this version of Linux in an old client hp pc that only has 8gb ssd. To get internet I would have to go to my router and plug ethernet cable directly to it. I was hoping to just use the wifi dongle that I have used with other linux distros in other computer in the past. I was kind of bummed out as i was looking forward to it. I suppose i dont know enough about linux to figure out how to get a driver or ocntinue the installation process with out network access.

[@kalexbox]

Sorry if I am blind but I am unable to see the link to the video referenced at approx 8:55 on hardcoding X11 resolution.

[@joseloeza371]

Hoo yesss this is what we need excellent video... And now please how to install the desktop.... Thanks

[@imoldovan]

Now I got the shirt also.... :)

[@mbahmarijan789]

I will use this for my future desktop build

[@TruePcKing]

My Garuda install bricked itself after updating again, So i thought i would give this ago, but it doesnt let me enabled the SDDM, it just goes to a black screen and when i restart it gets stuck on Terminate Plymouth boot screen Just wen through it a 3rd time and most things are missing that you go through @ 7:50 followed all the setups, and Got the same error message that you got. @ 7:10

[@DwightParker]

Your skills are impressive...... I'll stick to the newbie installs when playing with Linux though.....

[@BrewMiester]

Well, I guess its time for a new Debian T-Shirt. Mine from 1999 is getting a bit worn.....

[@mkrleza]

Debian is an amazing OS for new HW incompatibility and several years old SW... Brilliant!

[@bernardbrixel8320]

Great video tutorial, Chris! Did it today and pretty much everything went smoothly. One issue, though, is that clicking on any icons or menus in the top bar (apps or date & time) does not launch them. Has anyone reported this before?

[@PiyushKumar-is2kh]

Same issue.. and even the logout, turnoff buttons are showing numbers instead of the icon

[@bernardbrixel8320]

@@PiyushKumar-is2kh Same here

[@iamrage4753]

​@@PiyushKumar-is2kh report it on the GitHub as doubt he checks every post on here

[@Devvult]

What kind of VM software do you recommend? Is Hyper-V any good?

[@harishannamalai8669]

I switched over from Debian to Fedora and I'm feeling a bit disappointed, seems like Fedora doesn't like my Hardware Ryzen 4650G. To many issues - System Freezes on lock, ffmpeg x11grab doesn't work. Looks like I'll go back to Debian again, may be I'll give your setup a try.

[@danielmcmillan4349]

Bumped into something weird. When I log into the desktop the top status bar is there but the main pane is grey, and I can't run anything. Obviously I missed a step, or there was an error that I missed. I'm running this on Virtualbox currently. Has anyone else encountered this issue?

[@sfsarfe]

i have an issue where fonts and theme directory dont exist

[@withercubes3295]

I too had problems with picom in VMs and found out that vsync doesn't work properly in VMs.

[@rabidrivas]

I miss your videos on odysee. Still this looks awesome

[@dokterdrap]

chris or chat, I have a question, if I want to install alacritty I have to remove the /usr/local/bin file to create a /usr/local/bin directory. My question is the bin file important and can I recreate the bijn file in another location and create hooks towards the new location for the bin file ?

[@ohnudes]

Yo Chris, cool vid! tried to install your version of linux tho and it's fairly different from your git. Is there any updated video on the matter?

[@A_G420]

Spent yesterday learning this wm with a 60% keyboard. I had so much fun /s

[@MultiAlbon]

Chris, I am trying to build an system with base on Arch. Why "debian" is more stable than Arch? I see more ways open in Arch than Debian, but I hate reading "wiki" because no videos or examples no screenshot or pictures about the processes is talking about!

[@AJ-wf1vh]

Hardcoding resolutions using Xorg only works for desktops. As a laptop user, I have multiple docks with different monitors which requires dynamic adjustment. And then there's the problem of presentations

[@eduardom800]

Nice, but for power users. I used to be one but grown old or something, The SO has turned into something that needs to be working well enough behind any aplication I may be using, out of the box. Of course nowadays my usage of the computer is more on the "user" side rather than the admin one.

[@barbarella7028]

I run Debian on most of my machines. It's still the best distro for me.

[@Clubberdude-sp1gw]

Ah Debian. Good stuff. I run Debian 11.3 on my main machine, so far been really good.

[@samyt681]

11.3?

[@DanielHellqvist]

I like it, I want it, i cant wait, lets install!

[@luckyhomestead]

after enabling ssdm it won't boot any more. it stuck on "Starting Terminate Plymount Boot Screen..."

[@i_am_batman_ph]

Hey Chris, same as you I wanted to hard code most of the settings just to make the operating system very light. How do you adjust your audio settings? I'm trying to fix "snd_hda_intel" audio driver. I could not make the audio work after installing your version of debian. TIA!

[@ZoomSkrt]

Is there a way to do this on a wireless connection? I just cannot get my laptop to connect to wifi after the debian install is done.

[@kornexd]

maybe you can clarify that debin sid is unstable and may not be such a good idea for a production machine

[@kuhluhOG]

How well does it deal with multiple screens of different physical size and resolution?

[@satyverma76]

The window manager he is using is bspwm which supports multiple monitors

[@kuhluhOG]

@@satyverma76 yes, but how well does it support multiple monitors with different resolutions my experience with that really wasn't good with that with really any window manager or compositor so far

[@excelle]

Love the video. Any plans on updating the scripts? I am running this setup now. Some weird issues with the power buttons and would love a deeper dive into setting some programs up the way that you have set them up. Thanks. Love the content

[@paulnuker1831]

I heard you say on your Techlore interview that you use Fedora. Did you recently switch?

[@Mickeybleedsblue]

Hey, thank you, Chris. I completed the steps up to the point of systemctl status sddm - it's telling me it does not exist? The other commands are saying the same. Service not found? I'm sure I missed something, perhaps?

[@vexnity460]

same here, you find a fix?

[@Mickeybleedsblue]

@@vexnity460 hey, yeah. I ended up downloading a new image of the ISO from the website and it corrected the issue for me.

[@mdivyakanth]

can anyone explain 7:04 why .exe files ./georgi32.exe and impact32.exe saved . I'm missing something here ?

[@kushalmondal618]

I really want to use debian 11, But the problem i face is resolution. the max res in xrandr is 1024x768 where as my monitor supports full hd .... Try to set 1920 as new mode but gamma output size problem everytime, any suggestions?

[@JonathanFreites]

This is awesome. In your opinion, between Fedora and this setup with Debian which do you recommend in matter of “available packages” (newer versions)? Thank you!

[@mjgritli]

Hi Chris I've been a Debian based ubuntu user for more than 10 years, I've used almost all DEs, but I like the keyboard-driven control provided by WMs, so Now I'm using i3 over Xfce-Xubuntu for reduced complexity But I'll give your setup and try on a VM and see if it's OK for my needs. I tried arch, but it's not for me, not stable, updates take too much time and bandwidth, so Debian is awesome :)

[@cryptolicious3738]

hi great video bro ! happy holidays to u n ur family ! GO Linux! Please do a video for us on the new linux PinePhone PRO ? also what do u think of garuda dragonized for daily driver? so pretty? can u really make mint or other look that good?

[@vietthanhnguyen1227]

Can't wait to try this....on my wsl

[@Sandeepan]

Hi, I've been looking for a way to put a pop style recovery partition in debian, wasnt lucky so far. Any idea how to do it ?

[@nicholaslysyuk2735]

Hey I've followed the tutorial to a T so far and my Variety won't change the background of the computer. What could you reckon could be causing that? any config files I should take a close look at?

[@corewarrior]

Hey Chris nice video. What are you using for your screen magnifier, btw?

[@vexnity460]

in video editing

[@morbidjin]

On a spare laptop installed the ISO, during setup WiFi/updating was fine. But when it booted no WiFi, there’s no dhcpcd.conf etc , any help would be appreciated.

[@samyt681]

did you found any fix

[@technicalgyan4730]

when i install ubuntu the boot partition of windows is deleted how can we recover the windows boot partition please help

[@angelooliveira7757]

Newbie that installed Arch . It then broke now wanting to find a stable setup . Maybe different distro. Jaded with Linux. Too many Distros . Window managers and flavours of everthing .. it leaves newbies bewildered .... any recommendations? Love your channel!

[@knull8351]

it's showing that the network auto configuration failed any ways to fix this issue?

[@jessevas5222]

If you ever get around to trying Barrier, would you consider giving a quick review vs Synergy? I've used Synergy-1.8, but it tends to be a bit laggy. But, I like using it with RDP so that I can send special key combos to PCs I have supported in other spaces. Thanks again, for an awesome video! And now, for an awesome desktop!!!

[@css2165]

can i install just the desktop environment on my fedora system instead of installing debian?

[@andrewrooke9793]

What do you think of Slackware ? (I started using it in 1998, but mainly use windows)

[@rmjohnson144]

I had to reinstall this to my main drive and now I get several network errors for iwlwifi during the installation process. Update: I found our it for wifi and skip it. On reboot it goes to bios and won't boot at all now from SSD. I try a different distro and same thing. I reflashed the BIOS thinking it would fix the firmware. nope.

[@jamesabernathy9744]

Well this video interested me enough to try it but using both KVM and Virtualbox, I get to the first login and the part where you have to nice looking icons along the top I have strange symbols, circles, right and let half-moons, etc. I have not tried on real hardware, but I'm curious what could have going wrong.

[@aldean7135]

someting wrong, everything good but after login sddm. desktop look wrong and can't open terminal either.