I REPLACED WINDOWS 11 WITH ARCH LINUX

[@alenv808]

Which OS do you use? Comment below 👇

[@stephiesmith6302]

Kubuntu | Arch + i3

[@alenv808]

@@stephiesmith6302 you've chose i3! Watched some videos on it and it is also a very cool tiling window manager 😊

[@MrHyde911]

Fedora

[@alenv808]

Solid choice! 😀

[@DariusPaveliu]

Well I use Arch Linux. Did I already mention I use Arch btw? Yeah I use Arch (btw)!

[@oserodal2702]

> Switches to Linux to try out ricing a laptop. Honestly, a very underrated reason to use Linux.

[@alenv808]

Yeah haha but it can look so nice! I love it 😍

[@Sub0x-x40]

@@alenv808 lol bro its probably the main thing that got me interested in linux.. i was about to buy a whole new computer becasue i just thought it was dying it was soo slow... and then saw unixporn... installed linux over the top of windows just to try it out and it was like my computer was brand new again. blazing fast

[@cmdrDiscoCat]

@@alenv808 There's a distro called Archcraft which offers quite a few "preconfigured" tiling window manager options, although you have to pay a fee to get the ISOs with the "premium" preconfigured tiling window managers. I haven't tested those "premium" options. On the free version though, there are openbox and bspwm configurations available. You could try them without installing, just to see how it is. Openbox is regular floating windows, bspwm is a tiling wm.

[@sheesh3178]

I switched for the same reason ngl (arch btw)

[@StanislavMelnik-hl6wv]

Actually I installed Arch+Hyprland because of that. It looks amazing and has an amazing workflow. I love it!

[@harpskid]

The hardest linux distro isn't arch. That would go to gentoo and linux from scratch.

[@alenv808]

Never heard of Gentoo, might give it a go if it has a great community like Arch.

[@lol-ws6po]

@@alenv808 I don't think you would like it at all, it's very inconvenient and you should only use it if you want to suffer for youtube views. You sometimes have to wait HOURS to compile your packages instead of just installing the compiled binaries like you do in arch

[@harpskid]

​@@alenv808 Gentoo is...interesting. I'd say its the most complex linux distro that actually has a userbase. Source based distro, you compile the kernel yourself, very interesting.

[@alenv808]

Just checked a video on it and yeah it takes a lot of time. I don't like that haha

[@bucketissad]

@@alenv808i daily drive gentoo lts my second distro my first one was arch, on gentoo the installation takes longer other than that its fast

[@MiScusi69]

Most sane and objective review of Arch ever made

[@alenv808]

Thank you 🤗

[@slothguy_]

if you didn't do it, go to steam settings > compatibility > steam play, enable that and most games work without having to set up proton for each one

[@alenv808]

Oh that's a game changer! Thank you very much 🤗

[@cmdrDiscoCat]

@@alenv808 Yeah, that's what the steam deck does (it runs on a customized archlinux base). Not all games run, but a toooon do run.

[@paultapping9510]

​@alenv808 fr. Literally 99% of the catalogue works seamlessly. For my collection, it's 100% compatible.

[@kurogotbeats]

@@alenv808there also is heroic games launcher for epic/gog

[@thatoneannoyingtornadosire8755]

was about to post this as well! proton is pretty much a godsend and valve is very determined to make gaming on linux better. valve has also set up a bit of a collab with arch linux recently, so things are looking really promising right now

[@vmkxyz]

nice to see someone trying out linux (especially Arch) and not complaining about using the terminal and stuff like that, love the video

[@alenv808]

Thank you very much for your feedback, much appreciated! About using the terminal....I have an urge to force myself to use neovim for at least a week 🫣

[@grigmax]

i used gentoo after windows, am i built diff

[@vmkxyz]

@@grigmax going from windows to gentoo is actually crazy

[@dirbyozz]

I used to hate the terminal when i was on pop_os, but for whatever reason, i think Arch has made me love using it

[@azreyleonchannel4773]

Yeah just switched to arch from windows 4 days ago and i love archhhh

[@Trapped_in_the_Dunya]

Very first scene "after using windows" Me: watching someone open a macbook

[@alenv808]

Sounds funny when you put it that way 😂

[@antoniotaormina7490]

Good video. Only two things: don't forget proton for windows games compatibilty and as an arch user of many years i should say that rarely i had the need to solve a problem in a hard way. Is often simple than other distribution.

[@alenv808]

Thank you for your feedback 🤗 Yeah I do believe issues aren't that hard to solve, it just needs time to figure out what the problem is and then how to solve it. I had couple of issues, for example my audio drivers were failing so when I want to watch youtube videos, the video just sits there buffering. But I solved it and for now everything works perfectly.

[@nicolasdesenvolvedor1642]

about the yay and pacman, here is the difference: with pacman, you can install software from the official repositories, which is what we call the app store of linux. there are repositories for each linux distro, bud arch's official ones are quite small yay basically solves this problem, because yay can not only use the official repositories, but also the community one, which we call the AUR (Arch User Repository). in sumary, yay does exactly what pacman does but with more software

[@see-sharp]

And more risks... Way more risks...

[@whyouread]

​@@see-sharp ye, somewhere on wiki it is not recommended to use. how about Aura package manager? People are used to yay and paru and I haven't seen anyone talk about it.

[@nicolasdesenvolvedor1642]

@@see-sharp yeah forgon to mention that, thabks for your contribution!

[@alenv808]

@nicolasdesenvolvedor1642 Thank you very much for explanation. It does make sense. @see-sharp that's what I've read. I guess I gotta be a bit careful of packages I install.

[@rajmajumdar5253]

Isn't aura deprecated, I would suggest use paru instead.​@@whyouread

[@block_01_]

Welcome to the Open source side of the force

[@alenv808]

Thank you! 🤗 Who would have thought there's so much great and free software.

[@user-ks1oh2wx6o]

0:39 Wait until he hears about gentoo

[@alenv808]

Haha maybe I'll try gentoo one day as well

[@bacalhau_seco]

​@@alenv808using linux for 3 years now, installed gentoo. the performanc increace is noticeable, but takes along time to isntall (because of compiling) so i could only recomend if u have other things to do meanwhile. gentoo actually forces u to get out of your computer, or u would be just wasting time waiting

[@alenv808]

That would actually be a good reason for installing Gentoo haha

[@ios7jbpro]

gentoo isnt hard. its easier than arch. gentoo is BOTHERSOME. the time you wait to compile takes so long hardest would go to nixos since *its a whole coding language you have to learn*

[@bacalhau_seco]

@@ios7jbpro ye, everything is well documented and gentoo has better tools to manage packagaes and pssible issue u may find. but imo ots only worth it if you have other things to do. I personaly uodate my system while on the gym and plan all my stuff before turning on my computer, and i think helps me take full advantage of the OS. So i think it is hard if u consider time management

[@cbcml42]

next time try ventoy for booting iso you can use multiple different iso's at once and choose when you boot into it

[@alenv808]

Just checked Ventoy and that tool is a game changer! Thank you for letting me know about it! Time to test every distro 😂

[@iXenox]

If you are going to have Steam installed anyways you might want to try adding the image editing program as a "Non-Steam Game", and enable Proton for it.

[@alenv808]

That is actually a genius move! I will try that with the next app that gives me trouble. I actually made affinity work in the end with bottles. Works well at the moment.

[@iXenox]

@@alenv808 Happy to hear that you got Affinity to work!

[@alenv808]

Thank you, I had to update system and mirror links, then worked flawlessly.

[@undersquire]

@@alenv808 How did you get affinity working in bottles? Does it work better in steam proton vs bottles? Also, is it the latest version or an older version of Affinity?

[@Ud4cznik]

1:02 ma dude, do I see some GTA: San Andreas codes right there? Big minds think the same! We know what is it about.

[@alenv808]

Haha finally someone found out an easter egg 😂 Good job!

[@TheKoppany69]

i noticed hesoyam at the first second

[@Andre-cmd-rgb]

just switched to arch (before i was using windows 11) loving it so far!!!!(not the first time using linux) already built LFS

[@nimlouth]

I just use Fedora + KDE plasma these days. Perfect combo of stable rolling release and great customization. I can tinker a lot but also have a fully working environment when I need it.

[@alenv808]

I understand that and I feel like I should make dualboot with something like that cuz you never know when Arch can give up on me haha

[@nimlouth]

@@alenv808 maybe you can just selectively withold updates for a week or so to see if it causes any problems but in general. Unless you use the AUR a lot and thinker around like crazy, I think it should be pretty stable. These days everything is a flatpak so it should just work haha. Also maybe you can get a cheap used laptop/chromebook to tinker with on Arch so your main computer stays on a boring/stable distro for actual work? haha

[@alenv808]

It does seem to be pretty stable for now haha not a single issue at the moment. Only some cosmetics which I have to fix. I do have pc which is still on windows, but it doesn't work the best. So I am playing around on this laptop to see what should I install on the pc.

[@nimlouth]

@@alenv808 as long as you don't abuse the AUR, it should just be fine! Flatpaks just seem to make everything very freaking stable these days too.

[@RanCham727]

Fedora is ran by a crappy corp

[@hobosam03-s6v]

Dobar video brat moj pozdrav iz Srbije samo jako (koristim Arch btw)

[@fifidurand7421]

you convinced me to try arch

[@alenv808]

Haha glad to hear that! You should definitely give it a go, at least in a virtual machine. It is fun, frustrating and rewarding.

[@fifidurand7421]

@@alenv808 yes on a vm first of course

[@alenv808]

In case you don't have loads of time to waste, you can also install it using archinstall script. It is much simpler than going the old school route.

[@pelaajahacks8358]

hows it going blud? switched to debian?

[@quadruplea0]

​@@pelaajahacks8358dude what

[@thatoneannoyingtornadosire8755]

its pretty neat to see someone, who like me, just went full send into linux recently. but instead you went right for arch! one thing you learn pretty quick is that, people were REALLY determined to make the switch seem much more brutal than it actually is. but yeah, there's plenty of guides out there that make the process incredibly easy. just update, pick the stable gpu driver, reboot, customize and make your desktop background pretty and done. most of your beginner time will be peeking around and learning the basic terminal commands. unless you're a mint user, then you don't actually use the terminal unless mint itself has a major version update. and usually there's a few video guides already out on how to do the update, which honestly again due to mints hand holding you probably only need to do it once to learn how it goes. (worst part is actually if you play very large games on steam, then most of that time is re-downloading 500gb games for 2 days and eating up all of your data for the month...)

[@toastercoaster5]

You saw how much traffic this video got you (although hardcore Arch fans might be a little frustrated you didn't do a manual setup), perhaps one way to move forward with your other series would be to continue with things like this! It certainly caught my attention, and with enough content you just might be able to earn subscribers, along with a stable income, in to time! Not to mention everyone who might be interested in your apps! (P. S. if you'd like additional tips for Arch I'm more than welcome to assist you as I am able XD) (P. P. S. Lutris is my go-to program for running Windows programs in Arch)

[@alenv808]

Yeah this video is still going crazy! And I'll definitely record a video where I try installing arch without arch-install script. I do plan to continue with videos like these, but I also plan to do some videos that are not Linux related, maybe more towards coding and frontend development. Not sure if uploading different topics will have a bad hit on channel. I guess there's only one way to find out. Would love to get any sort of income, it is dry since April haha. Priority is getting a job of course, but the market is crazy at the moment. So I build apps on the side and hoping for the best. I plan on creating a discord community, that seems like a good idea. Until then we can talk on instagram if I get stuck somewhere on my Arch journey haha @alenvarazdinac Thank you for your feedback! 🤗

[@Zy4te_D3D9]

such underrated youtube keep it up my guy

[@alenv808]

Thank you very much, means a lot to me 🤗

[@ivanleonelvera7540]

Just a recomendation, if something happens to your arch and you want to go to a stable distro, I recomend you to switch to fedora kinoite instead of manjaro because manjaro is a rolling release distro like arch (meaning it ships all software update without any type of testing) and fedora kinoite is an inmutable distro and it is very stable because how it applies its updates,, and it even updates itself automatically and apply the updates in the next boot (but with no downtime) so you can just use your system and you will be almost always up to date and I recomend you fedora kinoite instead of silverblue because kinoite has KDE and silverblue has Gnome. I recomend you as well to check distrobox if y9u use this distro so you don't have the problems of the inmutability of the distro rather than when installing the nvidia drivers.

[@alenv808]

That is actually a very smart idea, I just wanted to use hyprland and rice it 🫣 Not sure if I can install hyprland on any major distro?

[@see-sharp]

You can, but it's easier to just use btrfs and snapshot your system instead of changing distros. Btrfs is a very modern sustem that you can just make a snapshot and return to that snapshot if something breaks. Imutable distros are overkill for end users, it's better to just use btrfs, hell even zfs on root with arch is better than changing the whole distro.

[@JorgeALXNDR]

dude I can't believe you put GTA SA codes on your product key, and I can't believe I still remember those

[@alenv808]

Haha I was very proud of that idea 😂

[@nikichashadow]

as a person who has been using arch for quite some time i love it as a programmer linux is a no brainer i use arch becouse of the aur (arch user reposotory) its not all smooth for me tho i am still having weird wifi isues :) nice video

[@alenv808]

I had wifi issues but resolved it. The issue was wifi wasnt connecting automatically to known wifis and I always had to manually connect by typing the password again and again. AUR is great, but I don't understand why some people say I should avoid it if I want stability 🤷‍♂️ Thank you for your comment, much appreciated 🔥

[@3RR0RNULL]

@@alenv808ikr it’s literally more stable than normal arch packages (in my experience)

[@bhargavjitbhuyan9394]

I have issues with a particular phone's hotspot being slow and getting capped at 3 MB/s.

[@3RR0RNULL]

@@bhargavjitbhuyan9394 Similar issue. It thinks it’s metered for me (it isn’t)

[@alenv808]

I guess I should continue installing AUR packages then haha I installed vscode from AUR and didnt even realized

[@chandrashakharkachawa7874]

I am impressed how will you studied things and had a great experience.

[@alenv808]

Haha thank you 🤗

[@jedipadawan7023]

BTW, I do not know how much Photoshop power you need. If you really need the power then you are going to have to battle to get Affinity running, but if your real level of image work is not that heavy then in addition to GIMP there is Krita. GIMP is laughed at by Photoshop users because it is not an image creation tool. It is only an image manipulation tool as GIMP keep explaining, and the GIMP team have made it clear they have no intention of replicating the functionality of Photoshop. However, Krita *is* written to be an image creation tool and is coded according to the input of professional artists. If there is ever going to be an open source Photoshop, this is it. And, with Arch, you will always have the latest rendering. So you might want to take a peak.

[@alenv808]

I managed to make Affinity work on Arch. But if any issues occur with it then I'll switch to Krita. Thank you 🤗

[@jedipadawan7023]

@@alenv808 👍

[@AlaaBouramdane]

@@alenv808 pls tell me how

[@alenv808]

I had an issue with bottles installation. And it was due to some mirror links were outdated. So I ran the following commands: sudo pacman -S reflector sudo pacman -Syy sudo pacman -Scc yay -S bottles And after that I installed affinity through bottles, you have to find bottles recipe for affinity and download affinity.exe It is actually very simple.

[@paultapping9510]

krita is criminally underdiscussed. It's literally the photoshop replacement that everyone wants gimp to be.

[@Xaito]

"I've had to make a backup of my windows key" After featuring it in the video: Our windows key, comrade.

[@arsxhy]

Its not Legit Windows License Key, is a Bunch of GTA San Andreas PC cheat Code

[@Xaito]

@@arsxhy I dunno, man. I successfully activated my Linux distro with this key. I use Arch btw.

[@arsxhy]

@@Xaito CJ would be proud of you man

[@G̈L]

def not the hardest if installed with archinstall, though tbf going through the manual install process was really annoying so I think I'll probably use archinstall next time lmao

[@alenv808]

I agree, I'll try to install arch without archinstall script and upload it 🤗

[@jnanamyotherapy]

You will need the latest version of Wine 9.3, and a lot of tweaks as well as the dotnet (not mono) redistributables. It (Installing Affinity Photo in a Wine Prefix) is only accompishable on an Arch Linux.

[@alenv808]

I managed to install affinity. I had some problems with mirror links but works great now.

[@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118]

maybe pacman will need a few improvements. I stopped using Arch and MX Linux because of the need to upgrade the system quite often. dependency tree is always busy whenever distributions have application executables you don't use. /sbin /usr/sbin /bin /usr/bin all these show the whole distribution applications, which have dependencies you may not use at all.

[@stephiesmith6302]

that's a nice move, image editing with GIMP is awesome, give it a chance! :) overall great video!

[@alenv808]

Thank you a lot! Gimp will be my choice probably if I don't manage to make Affinity work. But I would really love to use Affinity since I paid for it at the end of the day haha

[@tjey4120]

Gimp is sadly 10 years behind other Programs in many aspects.

[@alenv808]

True even though it would probably be able to do most things I need.

[@darukutsu]

gimp is more like glorified ms draw, use krita... still waiting for gimp3 to be released

[@edward_the_bruce]

Honestly I find Krita better than GIMP these days. I know it is advertised for artists but it does photo editing better than GIMP lol.

[@jaanoo]

"There are some warnings, didn't read them." - Starting off with Arch in a nutshell

[@BlockVentures]

Why is everyone using Rufus? Ventoy....please, just do the "cook" ONCE and you just throw iso's onto that USB and you get a choice of which iso you wanna use for install...

[@alenv808]

I didnt know about Ventoy when installing Arch haha But yeah ventoy seems to be a great tool

[@FedoraSilverblue]

I use fedora media writer

[@paultapping9510]

I put Arch on my laptop, setup was somewhat involved, post-install, but nothing too hard and the wiki held my hand, with instructions verified by users, for virtually every single step of the process to get my specific hardware fully working. The only thing I haven't got fixed is my fingerprint reader, but I'm not overly bothered about that rn.

[@alenv808]

Yeah, and ChatGPT on top of all of that. I managed to make Bottles work with the help of ChatGPT. You can try to solve your fingerprint reader with AI.

[@Touzi_edit]

i like the gta san andreas cheat codes refrence 1:02

[@typingcat]

The difference between MS VS Code and the open-source versions (VS Codium or something) is that a lot of extensions are only available in the former.

[@amqndin]

imagine leaking your windows key

[@alenv808]

Shh 🤫 No one knows, no one used it yet.

[@HimanshuSaini_2705]

​@@alenv808I used it

[@silentspy_]

kmspico entered the chat

[@dobro5958]

I'm really sorry for you dude... I hope you will come back soon, without wasting much time.

[@alenv808]

Thank you very much, means a lot ❤️

[@Aoitori365]

lol implying Arch users leave their houses

[@alenv808]

There's too much things to customize and fix haha

[@bryophyta9500]

Imagine thinking arch with the install script is the hardest. Have you ever heard of gentoo or lfs?

[@alenv808]

I'll try to install arch without archinstall script and upload it. As far as I understood from comments here, Gentoo is not necessarily harder but rather more time consuming.

[@alenv808]

Learning so much from all of you here in the comment section. Linux has a nice community, that's for sure. Thank you 🤗❤

[@YetAnotherNotHacking]

bro the contents of your learning material folder is so funny

[@arrow_function]

Author: yeah, I installed the hardest linux distro Gentoo, Void, Nix, Linux From Scratch: maaaaan

[@alenv808]

According to the experienced linux users from the comments, the mentioned arent necessarily harder but rather more time consuming.

[@YourPepsiDrink]

@@alenv808 gentoo used to be source-based, thus u see the gentoo updating their system meme, void is just arch but different, nix is basically immutable x hyprland (they love plasma but love hyprland way harder) and lfs? non existant. - dualboot windows & arch user

[@alenv808]

Okay, you got me interested in nix 🫣

[@arrow_function]

@@alenv808 you're welcome :)

[@sosedik]

@@alenv808 Definitely recommend giving NixOS a go You get bleeding edge of Arch and ability to tinker with system while keeping the system stable for daily use And personally, the fact that everything (user(s)/apps/services and their exact versions, configs, etc. (potentially multiple devices, disk partitions, auth tokens and more if you're willing to!)) is declared and managed from a singular place was also very compelling to me It might be a time sink at first due to its differences and plethora of new information to learn, but it pays off if you're comfortable with its workflow There's been plenty of introduction videos popping out on it, and the community is willing to help Linux native apps mentioned in the video should work just fine, and the Hyprland supports it too! Would be interesting to see your thoughts on it if you decide to try it out

[@rafaelgabrielgarlinidal-bo9496]

that's very good, you are contributing to a world of more linux users. The more people use free open-source software, the more people will develop FOS applications.

[@alenv808]

I like the way you think 🤗

[@thenameisluk]

i value my time so my go to choice is debian testing ❤️‍🔥

[@alenv808]

Fair enough. Who knows where I'll end up once I start breaking Arch haha

[@fineman1064]

steam have integrated proton. You just need to enable steam play (or sth) in settings. Then most windows games will work even without any tinkering

[@alenv808]

Okay, I gotta try that out. Thank you 🤗

[@Asxraliss]

Pacman is the built in package manager with arch. Arch has the AUR, arch user repository where users can post their own stuff, however, it's not checked by mods and is usually checked by random users so it's much less safe. if a package if liked enough by users it can actually land in the official repo of arch, pacman. Yay is an aur installer which just makes installing from there easier.

[@alenv808]

Thank you for explanation! 🤗 Learning a lot here from the comment section

[@Asxraliss]

@@alenv808 i think that in general. linux is actually just objectively superior to windows. the only issue that made me in the end just make my windows more secure with a debloat tool was the fact that my primary uses for my pc are ones that are only on windows. (hoyoverse games and valorant) if those were on linux or if i had more drive space. i would definitely stay on it. so i think in the end it is worth the switch as long as you got the space or are okay with sacrificing certain things.

[@alenv808]

Understandable. I think the best way for me would be to go with dual boot, wsl or hyper-v vm. So I can use linux for coding and for everything else I'd use windows. Maybe you can use linux in one of those ways too, if that's an option.

[@Asxraliss]

@@alenv808 if i had a disk larger than 500 gb i would

[@n.m4497]

Linux from Scratch is the hardest distro. It only exists as a PDF file, lmao. Have fun Buckaroo

[@丿丨一゚一一゚一一丨丿]

you guys use desktop environments? i just use the kernel

[@martinsalmeida321]

If you'll have to reinstall Arch, consider Garuda as well as Manjaro you mentioned. Both are Arch based and Garuda has fantastic aesthetics, something that along this video you considered important. Myself, like when I chose a new car to buy, stability and reliability is the most important factor, so I opted by Debian Stable distro, it is extremely rare to crash, just like windows 10 or 11 today, it is fair to say, politics aside.

[@alenv808]

Garuda looks amazing, and I just checked - it also has a hyprland edition 🤯 Thank you for letting me know! 🤗

[@gilesstockman4913]

the network issue is probably related to nm-applet not running add an exex nm-applet in your config

[@alenv808]

You could be right, network is the only thing that is painful for me in arch 😂

[@candra5727]

bro finally can say "i use arch btw"

[@alenv808]

Yeah haha that was the main reason for installation 🫣

[@Yelms-j1d]

Use the Flatpak version of Bottles so that you get all the right dependencies. Bottles is very sensitive to these conditions.

[@alenv808]

I actually managed to fix the issue and install affinity. There was some problem with mirror links.

[@Triro]

Hardest is Linux from scratch. And arch isn't really hard anymore thanks to the archninstall tool. Oh yeah, and gimp exists.... The argument of "Oh well, I have a license for [software]" isn't really valid when great alternatives exist. And most games run on linux no issue, even non-native ones. Softwares are a bit more of a eh, just because of the fact that its so deeply rooted in windows, translating calls is quite hard.

[@alenv808]

Alternatives do exists but I wanted to use Affinity because that's what I am used to and what I paid for. And I actually managed to install Affinity last week and works fine for now.

[@erisium6988]

Most popular games dont work on linux, cs2 doesnt work like on windows, fortnite doesnt work, apex probably also have problems, does overwatch work? All relevant games doesnt work.

[@Triro]

@@erisium6988 Cs2 runs natively on Linux. Like lol? Valve makes the STEAM DECK, which RUNS ON LINUX, you really think they WOULDNT port their most popular game over? Fortnite is well... Fortnite. Who plays this still... Apex works perfectly fine. Overwatch probably doesn't work, but can be easily replaced with it's objectively better older brother, Team fortress 2. Most popular games DO, infact work on linux, and if they don't its literally the developers fault, especially with anticheat. Its a single toggle to turn on, or off linux support.

[@bhutchin1996]

When I was switching from MX Linux, I ran both Manjaro and EndeavourOS on VirtualBox. I went with EndeavourOS. I prefer rolling release distros now, especially those using the AUR.

[@alenv808]

Had any issues when installing endevaour? I cant install endevaour nor cachy. Installation crashes mostly on Grub install I think...

[@bhutchin1996]

@alenv808 Not really. It could be a hard drive issue. I had a failing hard drive that got to the point where it could only install a 32-bit version of Linux, but swapping it out with a new 1TB SSD worked wonders. You could probably get by with a fourth of that if you don't need a lot of storage, and it's a lot cheaper.

[@adelite]

blud really thinks arch is the hardest distro to install 💀💀💀

[@alenv808]

Before reading previous comments I had no clue there was more hardcore systems.

[@erisium6988]

Linux users - people that thinks its cool that they use shit os that is hard to install.

[@SIGSEGV200]

LFS laughs in corner (nothing is hard, its just extra steps for minimalism)

[@cryptopelgrim4751]

You Sir, are a brave soul. Simple Mint user here.

[@HksjJkdkd]

Archinstall ☠️

[@alenv808]

😮

[@HksjJkdkd]

@trqhxrd5844 i installed Gentoo and soon doing LFS

[@alenv808]

@trqhxrd5844 I'll install arch without archinstall script, for the haters haha installation is not a problem, it's all just a matter of time, I'll figure it out eventually.

[@HksjJkdkd]

@trqhxrd5844 how about you LFS before saying that with tools like arch-chroot (which is 8 commands automated) they understand their system.

[@DungLuongDungIsHandsome-q2r]

tobe honest your screen looks so smooth - I think you have a high refresh rate !

[@franku2011]

Yeah, this seems like a pretty accurate experience, I enjoyed the video!

[@mazasm86]

i have Arch Linux (i used to use gentoo but i got tired of constantly managing the machine) with GDM + GNOME and a macOS theme i usually do programming (Java,C,ASM)

[@sathya41]

If you faced random freeze for sometime setup swap and install earlyoom, this is caused due to less available memory

[@alenv808]

Just checked it, that's a tool for like freeing up memory? Thank you for letting me know 🤗

[@superjet1007]

Switched to linux a week (or more) ago just because of the same reason: i saw a video showcasing "ricing" (linux customisation) and i wanted to do the same Now i have windows on a second drive for one single game which anticheat doesn't support Proton/Wine And yeah it's obviously Arch + hyprland btw

[@alenv808]

Ricing bought me too, it looks way too good. I got bored of Win 11 look and needed something new. And I feel like Arch + Hyprland is the best combination.

[@porter6484]

You can try other Arch type Distros like Endevour os, Cachyos or Garuda.

[@alenv808]

Yeah I got my eyes on Garuda, it has nice hyprland rice out of the box haha

[@happygofishing]

ive been using arch for about 4 years, when you said your first archinstall failed, in my experience sometimes the archinstall script just fucks up for no reason depending on what configuration you select.

[@nydaarius6845]

for image editing, i recommend Krita

[@alenv808]

Solid choice 🤗

[@Sub0x-x40]

arch isnt really hard at all if you just want to use gnome desktop.. there are some functions in linux that u take for granted in windows that just are a pain to get going like bluetooth, or screensaver and sleep functionality. but apart from that its great

[@alenv808]

Yeah I gotta say I had some issues with bluetooth haha

[@tellsackett4572]

If you are gaming under Steam: from my understanding, you shouldn't have to mess with Bottles at all and Steam basically handles the Wine stuff for you (I think 🤔). If you turn on "Compatability Mode" in a Steam game's settings, it should give you the option to use Proton (Steam's custom version of Wine). Apologies if this isn't completely correct, I don't use Steam much.

[@alenv808]

Yeah, should work like that. But havent tried it yet.

[@autobahnmensch]

Manjaro is cool, I used it for about a year then switched back to some Ubuntu based OSs, currently using Kubuntu because of KDE Plasma

[@alenv808]

Why you switched from Manjaro? It gave you some issues?

[@eiboeck88]

for affinity photo you could try running it throu steam but before you have to enable steam play

[@alenv808]

Yesterday I made Affinity work on Arch. The issue was with Bottles installation not Affinity. I had to clear the cache, update system and magnet links (or something like that). And as soon as I figured out that, Affinity installation was pretty simple.

[@aptypp]

Try to install affinity photo in virtual machine on windows. Then copy installed program to wine/bottles and try to run. I dont know if it will work.

[@alenv808]

I actually managed to make Affinity work on Arch using bottles. It works good for now.

[@xzaratulx]

that last sentence; you got really well into it 😁

[@elvarwinston]

Day 1 on mint, previous windows user for over 20 years :) so far so good

[@pjcpspn670]

Zorin OS17 on my main PC and Mint 22 on my 10yrs Old Laptop.

[@alenv808]

Zorin seems like a serious distro 🤔

[@akshaykrishnak9320]

Great bruh..! Keep going

[@nugrahaday]

The hardest thing to me that make my self cannot give up Windows is Microsoft 365. I cant live without Excel Power Query, no other office apps on Linux would perform the same way, as my work mainly on Microsoft 365 ecosystem with other coworker with OneDrive. Do you have work around this on Linux? Sure I can live with Gimp, Darktable, Shotcut... I live with those software since 4 years ago, but I cant find Excel Power Query alternatives. Please help, I'm ready to full jump on Linux if there is a work around in Excel Power Query

[@alenv808]

Maybe it can be ran using Bottles, that's how I managed to run Affinity Photo, which is a windows software not compatible with linux.

[@realMrVent]

Regardless of outcome, it's very based of you to dare and try new things like this 👍🏻

[@alenv808]

Thank you! I do love trying out new things and I have a lot planned for the channel. I got excited after all support on this video 😊

[@zakt9]

Whats funny about the problem with bottles 4:43 is not even so much you got to the part where you were running the exe. You had troubles with flatpaks, and your file partition layout. Honestly surprised that archinstall, kde or Discover doesn't just have flathub enabled by default. The downfall of the "Arch Way" is you as as new user did not have flatpaks (the 'universal package' for Linux) installed by default.

[@alenv808]

Yeah I couldnt install bottles. Run every command I found online but no luck. And then I updated mirror links and system and all of a sudden I managed to install bottles, and affinity with it.

[@rajmajumdar5253]

Hey how is your OLED display working with arch? Fellow Vivobook OLED user here

[@alenv808]

I haven't notice any issues with it. Works perfectly so far 😁

[@jakobw135]

Have you tried Garuda Linux - an Arch-based system, with rolling releases?

[@alenv808]

Garuda is the distro I would like to check next, when I manage to break the Arch.

[@illuminerdy]

for image editing just use GIMP

[@alenv808]

I actually made affinity work on my system, but if it gives me trouble I'll probably switch to something different like Gimp or Krita.

[@yadpreet7454]

@@alenv808How about you just download windows and move on instead of tinkering all day, like how most devs and creators do?

[@Spectrulight]

​@@yadpreet7454alot of devs use linux.

[@alenv808]

@yadpreet7454 that's a good one to be honest haha I gotta check what are the options in ricing windows 😂

[@alenv808]

@Spectrulight as a mainly frontend developer, I don't have too much benefits by using Linux, or am I wrong? All I do in terminal is running npm scripts and git, the rest is text editor and browser.

[@washim-7867]

1:00 bro that gave me flashbacks of my childhood!!!

[@goastaccount8360]

Ive done arch without the install script and i must say LFS is harder.

[@alenv808]

Maybe I try LFS or Gentoo sometime in future.

[@LaynaStambaugh]

"Why don't I just install the hardest OS... and go from there!" "There were some warnings... didn't read them" Oh. This is going to be FUN

[@obvbeans]

Affinity photo has a native linux version. It might not work or support arch though. And also you could've used other image editing software's like gimp or krita.

[@the-last-spark]

i usualy use gimp also little tip you can just do yay to update your whole system and yay package name to search and install

[@alenv808]

After using windows for so long, updating arch like that doesn't seem to me like it's updated haha It updates very fast without it even needing a restart.

[@gubeneti]

>there are some warnings >didn't check them chad asf

[@glenni83]

How is Hipperland? Then did you get a date? So you could say "I use Arch btw?"

[@alenv808]

I love hyprland and enjoying using it. I still havent got a date, still looking tho! Gotta stay positive haha

[@glenni83]

@@alenv808 Awesome. You could install Cachyos, then it also comes with preinstalled Hyperland under the install. It has better performance then stock arch with hyperland, due to the kernel it has, and the packages

[@alenv808]

Ah okay, I might try it in VM. Does it look nice out of the box? haha

[@glenni83]

@@alenv808 ​ i have not tested hyperland on cachyos my self. I have used cachyos for a year now on the KDE plasma. Been a fantastic experience. I have a dualboot video of cachyos on my channel. If you want to look at how the install process is for it. You be suprised from what you have experienced now. There is a brand new Live Iso out now, that is couple of days old. Where you can auto mount from the live iso, that interact with fstab. There is more info on it on the website. Then there is a wiki with all the keybinds and all the stuff you need. Discord has a few hyperland nerds that you can talk to as well. I think you will like it

[@williammc6953]

krita y gimp para edición de imágenes ya cumplen con su función de reemplazo al software de Adobe, esta también la opción de virtualizar para instalar esos programas usando kvm y virtmanager

[@alenv808]

I managed to install Affinity, issue was in Bottles installation.

[@xNialx]

Win 10 -> Pop -> Arch -> Cachey Loved arch and hyprland, but my own lack of experience kept breaking arch, so I settled on cachey until I understand linux better as a whole. Wine has been my biggest challenge at first, since I like playing older games and modding them, feel alot more comfortable now, and Heroic launcher makes it even easier. All in all, while frustrating to learn a new OS, I can't say I regret the decision to leave windows it was inevitable. I'd just been putting it off for the past decade.

[@alenv808]

Luckily I havent yet broke Arch haha But yeah it is tough figuring out some stuff over here. I managed to install Affinity Photo few days ago, and the issue was actually in my mirror links or something like that. I had to update it.

[@_TheRealMud]

I saw you say you don't like how long gentoo can take in other comments, so if you would like to get even more control over your OS and you don't mind 90% of fellow users being at least 40, and don't mind rarely getting updates, slackware is pretty good, it doesn't have dependency resolution by default so if you don't want a package that pacman would auto install, you can just not have it. the only downside to that is of course dependencies exist for a reason, and not having them tends to lead to breakages somewhere, so it leaves you to decide if that breakage will actually affect you. slackware will also teach you how to use linux in general because it is near 100% unchanged from upstream sources, but it is a very unforgiving system that I would not suggest you daily until you master it. it also uses LILO (the oldest linux bootloader) still in case grub is too modern for you, please ignore the fact that LILO was abandoned 9 years ago. or just use sourcemage if slackware sounds too fast, modern, easy, and supported to you, it'll be "fun"

[@lessi5_ua]

I expected at least half of the people in comments complaining about you not installing arch the manual way, but so far I found none. Wow.

[@animeshyadav8017]

LOL there is no 'A' in any activation key. RIP for who tried it

[@akhilbisht798]

Hey I think you should show your windows keys like that

[@cheemsjr]

it was a joke, that wasn't actually his windows key. it was gta san andreas cheats

[@LinuxBrother]

Great video bro

[@alenv808]

Thank you very much 🫶🏼

[@kamal.v007]

battery life? is it better than windows or close to it

[@alenv808]

I would say battery life while using arch + hyprland is much better than on Windows. It uses much less resources which results in longer battery life.

[@erisium6988]

@@alenv808thats not how it works buddy

[@SleepTime-Dark]

​@@alenv808 There is also programs to reduce battery consumption, like tlp-rdw, thermald and acpid. You should check them out.

[@uniqueprogressive9908]

An alternative to affinity photo is Krita

[@alenv808]

I made Affinity work on my system, but if it gives me some trouble in future I'll switch to Krita. Thank you! 🤗

[@smn7074]

is it safe to show your windows activation key?

[@alenv808]

Supposedly it is if it came preinstalled on your pc, according to the comments. It is built in a motherboard then.

[@Aechelian]

I've gotten Affinity to "work" on my Linux machine under Bottles. But it's only in the broadest possible sense. No saving files, runs at a low refresh rate, screen constantly flickers black... sadly we are stuck with GIMP on Linux.

[@8BitRetroRabbit]

good job! i doo the same befor 9months awfter 30years windows and dos :D have fun at arch :) sometimes arch feels easier then windows

[@alenv808]

Thank you! I guess I will feel much more comfortable with arch after I learn all the tools and naming. Grub, wayland, x11...wth haha

[@_etcsk5979]

First part of the video is 100% me.

[@alenv808]

Haha glad you found it relatable 🤗