Installing Xorg And A Window Manager In Arch Linux

So on a previous video, I ran through installing the base system for Arch Linux. But we need to go ahead and install Xorg and a window manager, because no one wants to live in a tty (unless your neckbeard has grown long). I will play with the xinitrc and I will also show you how to enable the AUR and install Yay.
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[@jrlepage]

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[@maclegaming4553]

I literally bought the same computer for the same reason lol

[@atpray]

I got a year azure subscription with my education account. Very helpful to learn linux

[@Shadetheartist1]

Heads up to thinkpad users (i.e. laptop users), depending on if you have a descrete graphics card installed, you may have issues with Xorg not properly understanding which device (integrated graphics or nvidia/amd gpu) it is supposed to use. This will manifest itself as a black or frozen display, in both your chosen display manager (lightdm, ssdm, etc) and your window manager/desktop environment (plasma, gnome, i3, etc). You will need to open a different tty via ctrl-alt-F2/F3/F4/F5 and edit your /etc/X11/Xorg.conf file to set up the correct device for Xorg to render screens with. Your best help is to run startx or xinit and read the error logs until you pin down the issue with Xorg. I just wanted to clarify this for other users since i thought for a while it was a display manager problem. And also because there is a lot of older information out there that recommends fixes that didn't work for me.

[@joehephwer1299]

@@Shadetheartist1 thank you for making the effort to post this

[@hfdcjiirjmcfi]

How's it going a year later?

[@Chinmoku_No_Te]

Hell yeah much respect DT, I can do the base install but getting the window manager installed and configured is where I fall short every time. So thank you very very much!!!!!!!

[@TravelingKen]

Been on and off Linux for years, my first exposure was Ubuntu 6.06 in 2006. After Windows 7 stopped getting life support this year I've been leaning into Linux more and more. Mint is now becoming my main driver and for fun I decided to do an Arch install following your guides. Very clear and straight forward videos, I now have Arch running successfully in a VM, thank you! Keep up the good work!

[@-r-3542]

arch on a vm and mint as main system!?!?! WHY???

[@-r-3542]

@Sayon Huh...good answer...=o

[@xrafter]

@@-r-3542 What was the answer?

[@lphoogenboom]

This helped me so much after my void minimal install :) Thanks man. You have a great way of explaining stuff generally. I used bspwm, feh and xterm on void, but still used you as pretty much a direct guide.

[@aacolive]

3:05 Initial pkg installation 6:12 Installing YAY 7:28 Don't miss base-devel 8:05 makepkg (yay=AUR Helper) 8:45 Installing WM, Terminal Emulator and others 11:29 Copying xinitrc file 12:19 Editing xinitrc 18:15 startx after login

[@Jerry-gi7gu]

Thanks for making timestamps for this video.

[@DriscollJeff]

Thank you. Very helpful. I have been focused on learning Arch and I really enjoy watching your videos.

[@davmrtl]

Your channel is a gem! Thank you for all the great content!

[@claudiobrt652]

I was just finishing doing pacstrap on the /mnt directory when you uploaded this :D Nice one DT!

[@leviticus8930]

DAY 1: Generators and electricity is bloat. DAY 2: I miss you coffee, hot shower and operating system the Linux Foundation does not use.

[@Silent.]

I got the both of both worlds

[@anantgupta7916]

You are agreed to my thing in a different way

[@loganreynolds8688]

@Brahma Sharma hot showers do though, since it has to heat the water

[@netbotcl586]

@@loganreynolds8688 there are solar-heated hot showers.

[@loganreynolds8688]

@@netbotcl586 Solar as in heated directly by the sun, or by solar panels?

[@Sticks210]

Been using Arch for years, every time I do an install I still follow the wiki in case anything changes. In the last year, I've started using tmux and w3m (or any cli browser) to keep the wiki in the bottom half of the screen which seems really obvious now that I've been doing it but I never saw anything mention that. Might be a good tip for some folks DT. Glad you're on the other side of the storm brother.

[@Eric-R]

I love this series. It shows that you can still build a simple system without all the bloat and mystery of heavy distros.

[@tandeshmukh]

With every video, the DT Wiki expands. I come here half the time I want to learn something interesting (like org modes).

[@old_geeky_Michael]

Really useful - thanks DT

[@scottw5584]

I've been waiting for this very video for a long long time. And now here it comes! I could not thank you enough. BTW, can you make a ricing video after this? Like polybar, audio and etc.

[@techwizja9086]

I love the thorough solid explanation

[@MIKEDUZZI420]

Bruh You da shit!!! You helped me so much with this video(the first time I've ever seen any of you vids before)!! Things that I've spent days and weeks fukn around with you have answered in a few short minutes. I KNEW finding the rught person would make this possible but didn't expect to find you accidentally on KZbin. So again TYVVM

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Love Your Content 👍

[@SimonBouchard82]

Thank you for this!

[@fabrice9848]

Your videos are gold!

[@bobbybologna3029]

So funny to be so worried about the decisions you make in WHAT you install, but ultimately what's important here is the philosophy and what you (the user) decides to ultimately go with because you can find installations for specific packages pretty much everywhere but DT has helped me learn all the "layers" to building a linux environment from the ground up.

[@pepibares]

Dt thanks for wallpapers tip. Awesome collection. :)

[@mecrumbly429___4]

Yeah but it's way too much. i only use one wallpaper at a time.

[@o2thej_gaming]

Thanks to you I’ve sorted with mint and I’ve not missed windows at all

[@AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Derek.

[@matman1975]

Handy hint: when using vim and you use dd to delete multiple lines of text, if you dd the first time for the first line from then on you can simply use the period key to repeat the same action. I was so happy to use this after repeating the same key actions. Great videos DT :)

[@pepineros4681]

Hit dd five times to delete the last 5 lines: novice Hit 5dd to delete 5 lines in 3 keystrokes: intermediate Hit dG to delete from cursor to the end of the file: expert

[@imabuddha]

Thanks DT! I've been doing some research on installing/running Arch on my Raspberry Pi 4 lately as I'm tired of dealing with the official OS's ancient packages, and their 64 bit version is still "beta". Arch on arm, particularly on the Pi 4 in 64 bit, can be tricky to get working properly, but your videos will be very helpful once I achieve that.

[@wlcrutch]

did my first arch install today. wasn’t so bad, but took two attempts. Then dwm suite. On a thinkpad x200…in 2023 😊

[@kellingc]

hey DT - I type yay -S dwm-distrotube-git st-distrotube-git dmenu-distrotube-get nerd-fonts-monoki and I get -> could not find all required packages: st-distrotube-git (Target) dwm-distrotube-git (Target) dmenu-distrotube-git (Target) Am I spelling something wrong?

[@tylernol1566]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYrUlWV3fb2iqc0

[@lewpoly]

Thanks DT!

[@DistroTube]

:D

[@alexismarie2652]

I like the fact that you did an install of an Xorg setup and not something like KDE or Gnome since what you did seemed to be more of a process and required more things to do. While KDE and Gnome kinda just do all that extra stuff for you.

[@xarisfil58]

i started using i3 3 days ago and so far i love it

[@SkeletonSyskey]

Been making Arch VM's in virtualbox again and again for the past week. Now I think i'm ready to install on a spare system I have. My only previous experience with any Linux distro was on a raspberry pi about 5 years ago.

[@Neko-kun-dp1hq]

How did that go for you? Did you end up getting into Linux some more after that or was it really your last experience with Linux in general?

[@papapriestley6131]

awesome video thank you

[@SoulForce22]

If you're using dwm and x will not start properly even though the .xintirc is in your home directory and you added exec dwm at the bottom of it just like in this tutorial, try using another window manager and enviroment. For some reason x would not accept exec dwm as a command. Tried fixing it for an hour, checked everything, but it just didn't want to. However as soon as I tried it with xfce4 it worked on the first try. Dunno if anyone else will run into this problem, but I just wanted to leave a comment in case someone does. Great tutorial btw! :D

[@darthdub79]

sound good bro !!

[@AlejandroArroyaveValencia]

yay -S dwm-distrotube-git st-distrotube-git dmenu-distrotube-git nerd-fonts-mononoki doesn't work. error: could not find all required packages: dwm-distrotube-git (target) st-distrotube-git (target) dmenu-distrotube-git (target) 😓

[@AlejandroArroyaveValencia]

I solved it with this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYrUlWV3fb2iqc0

[@JKhalaf]

@@AlejandroArroyaveValencia thanks for coming back and pointing us in the right direction.

[@magnusanderson6681]

I got stuck for like 4 hours wondering why dwm wouldn't start for me because I had the enable 3D acceleration ticked in Virtual Box. Glad to finally figure that out

[@DenisovichDev]

Apparently your packages are not there in the AUR. Did you change the name or something?

[@lm2668]

@@zer0reaction313 it did not solve it for me it says the key is not valid, and when I try to locally add the key it doesn't let me

[@MiihiSuzuno-nn9jy]

@@lm2668 oh i spoke too soon. it tells me that i cannot sign the keys locally as well, of what the message says

[@MiihiSuzuno-nn9jy]

@@zer0reaction313 Maybe i will try installing the software that he has, but the original software. using git clone or something. i think Mr Taylor's software is software he configured himself to his liking. it like importing or downloading someones Customized Emblems or Classes in Call of Duty Black Ops 2

[@drishalballaney6590]

A tip for intel users: avoid using the intel drivers, instead use the modesetting drivers provided by the kernel for intel graphics. intel graphics drivers(xf86-video-intel) mess up a lot with especially with recording software like OBS. To properly set it: open/create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf and type: Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "modesetting" EndSection now restart the pc. to check if settings are applied, type: inxi -G and look for driver: modesetting one more note: you can use --needed to avoid reinstalling the existing pkgs in a group: pacman -S base-devel --needed

[@safalpiya3759]

Thanks for the tip!

[@drishalballaney6590]

@NOZY mesa is for 3D acceleration and xf86-video-* drivers are for 2d acceleration. More info can be found on the arch wiki page for intel graphics

[@drishalballaney6590]

@check it but intel graphics also cause OBS and other screen recording issues

[@drishalballaney6590]

@kot aah and that's why always use a compositor like picom....also setting screen tearing on both the graphics driver and the compositor can be really buggy

[@mecrumbly429___4]

thank you sooo much. have a 5500 graphics card (i THINK, have no idea what it is) and had no idea how to configure it.

[@holdmybeard3160]

Thanks man!

[@DistroTube]

You bet!

[@LDavis]

Awesome video, DT! I had wondered why you didn't install base-devel in the previous video during the initial pacstrap command. It's been a little while since I installed Arch, and I wondered if that was a change from before (like having to specify linux and linux-firmware).

[@DistroTube]

I wasn't really following the wiki while recording, so it might have suggested during the chroot. Either way though, install it then, install it later, makes no difference.

[@alexandrecastro5392]

For the first time, I could setup arch from scratch. But what window manage you use? You remain using dwm?

[@peterpanther8627]

Man, linux is so satisfying once you start figuring things out.

[@Seadg]

I have been using ls -al for 15 years and your ls -la is fucking with me hard.

[@ChibiQilin]

I did a clean install on my desktop a few months ago, and finally decided to make use of git for my dwm and st, it's so convenient being able to screw around and figuring out what I like because version control makes it easy. I need to develop a better habit of making use of these kinds of tools. Things like these might be obvious to many, but I don't even know anybody who runs linux who I can discuss these kinds of things with.

[@Neko-kun-dp1hq]

I'm the only one in my house that can use a computer proficiently doing anything other than firing up a web browser. I feel you, man.

[@omegamon]

After some frustration figured out that atm (may 2021) none of the distrotube packages are on aur for whatever reason... so kinda broken

[@cameronholtan3407]

He had did a video as to why if I recall correctly.. before the title of it escapes me though. It was some time late April/Early May of this year..

[@dogol284]

What am I supposed to do?

[@kenielf]

@@dogol284 The packages he installs are his own custom build for his systems, the regular packages still exist within the aur. You can install the regular packages yourself, and if you're really wanting his dotfiles you can git clone them through his github page. Overall, read the arch wiki installation and post installation guide, there are a multitude of ways of building your system, the packages will work normally, it just won't have his patches/theming.

[@jonathanlee4653]

@@kenielf could you kinda walk through it step by step? I am complete beginner here and I am pretty much stuck at 10:29 when he installed his own thing

[@kenielf]

@@jonathanlee4653 Yes, of course! Do you have any way I can contact you to make things easier? Like discord or something for example? Or would you prefer me to just say it here? Is it his setup exactly or do you have anything else in mind?

[@ferferrara]

What do you use to show that random ascii art when terminal starts? Thanks

[@datashed]

This is nostalgic for me. I used to use xv -setroot -quit or something like that to set my wallpaper with fvwm or olvwm. I wish xv was still a thing.

[@evertongabriel7366]

bro, I loved your Xmonad configuration (bar)! Do you have it on AUR as well as the DWM-Distrotube? Salve de Brasil!!!

[@DistroTube]

You can find my xmonad and xmobar configs on my GitLab.

[@eeaaay]

Interesting shell)

[@codeshowbr]

Hi, how do you print those colored asciiart randomly in your terminal?

[@DistroTube]

Go to my GitLab and check out my Shell Color Scripts repo. Or on Arch, yay -S shell-color-scripts

[@codeshowbr]

@@DistroTube thanks! just cloned it and it looks amazing :)

[@samhardy5981]

What was the WM the host PC was using? i3? (sorry if this is a common question).

[@_NguyenDinhGiaHuy]

How can I turn up the System performance on the top bar ?

[@JobFernandezSonofGOD]

8:34 Could not find all the required packages dwm-distrotube-git (Target) st-distrotube-git (Target) dmenu-distrotube-git (Target)

[@tiddonees2087]

They removed the files from the AUR. Check out his video on that, or if you want. You can find the files in his gitlab which is mentioned in his description

[@JobFernandezSonofGOD]

@@tiddonees2087 thanks a lot

[@garyespitia460]

I found the new reference video, and I figure that at 6:09 of this video I have to clone this repo and keep going. BUT, cloning the gitlab repo produces the following error: GitLab The requested URL returned error: 503. Which goes over my head on how to solve. This is the referred link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYrUlWV3fb2iqc0

[@XGl1tchxX]

I receive an error stating that it is unable to find all required packages: dwm-distrotube-git st-distrotube-git dmenu-distrotube-git

[@nicofreedom2268]

Exact same issue...

I have same issue, can anyone answer what is problem ?

[@YourLocalMedic]

@ I think you still need to add in the font as he never fixed it

[@harpritsingh9359]

@@YourLocalMedic i think he removed the packages.

[@linuck3403]

the packages were removed, just go to his arch repo on his gitlab and do what it says in there

[@jpfeif29]

Hey this is awesome, and I just finished my install with KDE plasma and i3 (I am learning i3), but to really bring in the major part of the market, laptop users, and for laptop users PRIME offloading is very important, it would be cool to see a tutorial on PRIME offloading and maybe a VM passthrough tutorial, the two easy ways of achieving 3D acceleration

[@mrkitty777]

Prime is a combination of integrated and discrete video cards? Like Intel Nvidia optimus?

[@mrkitty777]

Yes discrete Nvidia to guest and Intel at host

[@bodlouk7011]

It was such a boring thing to set up and then I discovered mhwd (Manjaro hardware detector) Just install it on Arch and its sets everything up in one command

[@AndersJackson]

@@bodlouk7011 only one command? That sounds boring and one wouldn't know what actually happen and why. I am all for automatic tools, but I really also want to know what it does. That is why front ens developers rally need to learn to hack some JavaScript, HTML and CSS manually before using tools and/or frameworks.

[@bodlouk7011]

@@AndersJackson I did it by hand 1000 times and I am pretty happy to have it automatized by people that know better than me

[@user-oz9ih6pi5j]

Hey DT, first of all love your channel. new supporter here! Just wondering is there a uninstall script for DTOS? would love to play around with it! :) and I was also wondering if there are dotfiles just to pull individual configs from? I love DTOS and would love to piece it together!

[@user-vp1sp2eu9v]

Hello, I'm a newbie in archlinux. Can you tell me how to customize a top bar menu like yours? Do you have any build conf for that? Thanks @DistroTube

[@siticholifatun7396]

hi dt what major linux distro are you using?

[@davidematos1001]

"Arch-linux is not time consuming if you come prepared"... What is time consuming is the preparation... but it is also a great learning experience

[@CatoSucks]

At the end you talk about having "your own configs stored on your own gitlab/github". Would you make a video about this process? I'm interested but no clue where to start. Enjoying your vids, thanks!

[@DABATTLESUIT]

Check out GNU Stow

[@talkshowhost85]

I had fun watching this and I decided not to install Arch and just admire it from far. It's too much hassle and I don't even have the patience to customize BunsenLabs. Love your accent sir :)

[@user-xu7js]

What are the hotkeys to open and close terminals? Mine opens with Win+Enter but I can't close it

[@cateru8053]

ty so much for the tutorial , i did install arch linux with awesomeWM and i like it but i have some visual blockiness " like blocks when i hover over buttons". i searched a lot but i didnt find any solution if anyone knows how to fix it . i wish you share it with me. thank you so much

[@jmjl2]

DistroTube when you put thing in screen in screen mode ( The arch linux install video ) There is first a rare animation Did you aded the animation or not?

[@black-purple]

I did the install and all VirtualBox but my screen resoltion doesn't change. when I set it up in the settings or with xrandr it just sets back to normal after seconds. What should I do?

[@oddstap6976]

I use the command line version of timeshift so I can always revert back if I mess something up.

[@ilyaa643]

i wasted a whole day to make a hybrid installation of arch on my thumb drive and now i can use a program called usb image tools to backup and restore it. tried openbox and now i am trying dwm

[@playeurk2012]

Hello ! When i type shift+alt+enter in dwm, it did not react. Can you help me to fix this ?

[@playeurk2012]

@@lavapenguin Ok thank you mate !

[@sssanjaya]

can you please make video about creating own AUR repo ?

[@mr_beezlebub3985]

I'm thinking about giving Arch a try. What window manager should I use? I've only ever used XFCE, and would like to try something new that is still light on resource usage.

[@lucasvieira8994]

3:20 for some reason this video driver didn't work for me, with LightDM and IceWM. The "xf86-video-vmware" driver worked instead, even though I'm VirtualBox.

[@usualmyanmarian]

Enable 3D acceleration doesn't affect any startx functions. It's simply just a virtual box error, just power off and open again will solve the problem. Plus, if you disable 3D acceleration, picom glx backend doesn't work, which means picom blur-background won't work at all. Took me 3 days to fix this. ☺☺☺

[@zeebpc]

i installed xorg and Icewm and i can boot into it with startx --- but there are no fonts! any clues why?

[@timothyt.82]

What happens when you need to enter your password on the graphical environment? Does the window manager have the ability to pop up a prompt for your password?

[@nikrbawker]

Lol experimented on my main rig on real hardware but i left my data partition alone and was very careful not to mess with it. Boots hell of a lot faster than ubuntu. Now time to get gnome and sweet theme for it.

[@o-hotynk25]

"Grab virtual machine, and paint that Linux with me"- Bob Ross

[@AkiiVT]

Hi, so I know it's kind of an old video but I'm having a problem with awesome wm. When I set everything up and reboot, after seeing the grub my Arch is just a default terminal, as if nothing ever happened. When I try invoking 'awesome' in it, I have an error: "E: awesome: main:708: cannot open display (error 5)". Can anyone help me out?

[@chevvvv]

2:16 how do I get this type of a login screen? instead of having a greeter with UI

[@horseblinderson4747]

Just some been there done that 'effed that up already. Install at least two desktop environments. Even if you never use it and preferably from different families, if your primary system breaks you don't have to but into your GTK desktop or cinnamon or one of the Forks we got out of Gnome 3 you can get into KDE or qt or whatever to at least figure it all out. Or you just roll the dice that the next roll fixes it and you can go back.

[@athulmenon5]

Anyone know the set up he has in the beginning while choosing which VM to open?

[@AshnSilvercorp]

Oh that version of VIM looks ok. If you've seen and were able to read any version of Godot's programming environment, that's not too bad.

[@petrawahl2640]

Thanks for the video. Does anybody know how to start X in unprivileged mode with a systemd user service? Seems not to be so easy.

[@AndersJackson]

Why do you want to do that? I know they have tried to run X without root privs, but it has not been easy, and I don't know of they succeded. Anyway, you can run a X server in a X server. Like Xnest X server. Nice way to try out X11.

[@abhileshxd621]

Thank you DT! Can you please make an updated video about Picom configuration (for Intel HD Graphics) to fix screen tearing? Specially when scrolling in the browser!

[@scottw5584]

Hi Abhilesh, I think I have met exactly the same problem as you and I just fixed it. Look at my guide if you like: github.com/Wangwj98/My-Manjaro-i3wm-Ricing

[@nilz91]

if using picom, use glx backend and enable vsync. tada! i do the xorg way though.

[@diasluah]

2000th like!!!

[@cheromechero1188]

Come from the instalation video xd

[@teberon]

I have a 3440x1440 monitor and I would like to know if there is a windows manager, that allows me to for example have one workplace with Firefox where Firefox would use 2/3 of the wide and when I open discord, terminal etc it would open on the right to it with half the height to allow another program to be started below. FYI I recently switched to Linux so would call myself total beginner

[@Theultimatebohab7137]

I'm probably going to take the time to build my own nothing against A guy taking the time but part of my arch build is I want to make the entire thing myself! Thanks for taking the time to make this video!

[@timalbersmann4192]

i dont have a xinitrc file in the directory, where can i get one?

[@GLXTCHYY]

How do I boot back in the command line after I install a gui?

[@patricklearn6536]

Hey I am struggling to follow along, how do I find the keybindings for the window manager? I found out how to do the run command (super+shift+enter). I found that (ctrl+shift+enter) opens a tab thing. I don't know how to close windows or tabs. I am very confused and cannot find documentation for this.

[@patricklearn6536]

Found this which explains it all: ratfactor.com/dwm it says default mod1 key is alt but in this configuration as install in the video it is the windows/super key.

[@holle544]

Thanks, hi from mexico, just one issue, could yo lend me a list of the hotkeys i've seen that aren't the default ones.

[@justinsamuel1831]

Hello there (sorry if this is a stupid question, but im new to arch and currently stuck here) when i try makepkg -si as root and cd(ed) into yay-git it says "you're not allowed to use the makepkg command as root as it will cause permanent and catastrophic damage to your system". How do i fix this?

[@oszlanszkimilan8205]

Don't be in root. Be in the user that you made (in the video dt).

[@XenGi]

Starting your WM with xinit has at least one major security issue. If an attacker manages to crash your X11 session they are presented with a logged in shell from your user. Then it's just one sudo or other security issue away from getting root access or at least tinker with all your files. A login manager won't have this problem so you should probably use one.

[@SlideRSB]

Yay is in the standard repos for Manjaro. I've been using Manjaro so long so I took it for granted that proper Arch doesn't have it.

[@TrueDetectivePikachu]

lol! I also use Manjaro, but I kinda got used to pacman and going to AUR and from there installing stuff. Yeah I know, not the most optimal thing, but heh, it gets the job done

[@VulcanOnWheels]

I managed to get your build of DWM running, but everything is much too small and I haven' t a clue how to solve that.

[@robbyoconnor]

If you want to delete all lines that follow -- and you're at the end of the file just do: dG

[@africantwin173]

How do i get Xorg on Arch ARM Pi4. I have no idea ? Any commands

[@linuxuser1234]

@Distrotube can you do a tutorial for startx and twm

[@hieuthai8244]

What is your server (main machine) using? (what driver)

[@arthurbttf]

I have a question: On mint, I found this random generic usb wifi, plugged it in and mint recognized it and using its wifi.. Is arch the same way? Or do I have to install something else? I just installed arch a week ago and I'm still trying to figure out everything

[@richmondrobinson3259]

It should just recognize it but it's a pain to use wifi without installing something like NetworkManager. But the base install won't include any networking tools I don't think (could be something like wpa_supplicant which somepeople like but I think it is just a pain). If you use a wired connection during installation and make sure to include NetworkManager when you pacstrap you'll be able to use 99.9% of usb wifi adapters.

[@arthurbttf]

@@richmondrobinson3259 Thank you!

[@MpSniperM1911]

@@arthurbttf when i was using dwm i downloaded nemo because i couldn't figure how to mount a pen drive, and nemo (or any other major file manager) does this automatically, even though i just wanted to copy a simple text file to my pc (litte edit:) through the terminal

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@@MpSniperM1911 That's important to know, thank you! When I installed arch I was surprised that even though i3, polybar and kdeconnect were running, memory usage was less than 400M. Definately good for an old core 2 duo

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@@arthurbttf yeah that's the ram usage i want to have! My only problem when i was installing arch on my notebook is that i couldn't figure a way to install a 64bit version in BIOS mode, i mean, the grub options that i know is "x86_64-efi" and "i386-pc" when setting up, even though in the BIOS itself i can see options like "boot from EFI" i can't use it for some unknown reason, also arch doesn't show that i have EFI support so i just have to deal with it, (after the exclamation point it's just my complain)