My New Just Works™ Linux Distro (its Artix btw)

Why I switched to Artix Linux, because it Just Works™
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[@fivefoottwelve2789]

The arch wiki is so comprehensive, it's essentially just the linux wiki at this point.

[@fawzanfawzi9993]

It's the bible for Linux users

[@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321]

*Always Has Been

[@mustafazakiassagaf1757]

even non arch problem have solution in arch wiki

[@ammyvl1]

*this* is why I use arch

[@AcidiFy574]

What about the Gentoo handbook??

[@patmcn9854]

I run my nuclear power plant on AmogOS.

[@MentalOutlaw]

sounds sus

[@theairacobra]

indeed

[@theairacobra]

sussiest power plant ever

[@midimusicforever]

Nuclear should only run TempleOS.

[@hoodie_cat]

@@midimusicforever That way if the nuclear power plant blows up, everyone shall return to god through TempleOS and it's holy C

[@tonyc1017]

I love how he respectfully just reminded people that search engines exist. Lmao.

[@metagen77]

and the casual mentioning of computer literacy, it burns!

[@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321]

binging it rn.

[@Phiwipuss]

If someone forgets that search engines exist, I just send them a link from here: letmegooglethat.com/

[@urimc]

@unsubtract searXNG is better

[@fawzanfawzi9993]

You forgot to mention Endeavor OS. It is like Arch with its official repo and systemd but it comes with very user friendly installer and it allows you to choose any desktop environment from the installer.

[@pixeltiger4204]

been my daily driver. unironically kino.

[@randgrithr7387]

Way better than Manjaro, people should stop recommending that one.

[@fawzanfawzi9993]

@@randgrithr7387 Yes. Manjaro's own repo is less stable than Arch's.

[@BlueyTheProtogen]

I would still use the archinstall

[@pixeltiger4204]

@@randgrithr7387 manjaro is full stop the worst linux distro because of how shit it is in comparison to its popularity.

[@nekoill]

I for one am glad that Arch becomes easier to set up by the day. It has never been actually hard to install if you can follow simple instructions, and it just werks, so I unironically pitched it to soon to become Linux users, as Arch was my first distro, more or less.

[@warhawk_yt]

Arch was my first distro too but I would still personally not recommend new users to give it a shot. It’s getting closer to that but I still want them to have a good experience and not just run right back to windows or macos. I am more tech savvy myself so I didn’t have much issues but I understand most people just want something that works and arch just isn’t that imo. It’s getting closer to that but as of now it’s not.

[@1yaz]

@@warhawk_yt you guys are the JW of the desktop OS world? 😆

[@Drugsanddragonslul]

@@1yaz jw?

[@aqualili]

it's not easy as a first distro. new users don't know what grub is. 99% of users can't partition a drive.

[@ettu357]

@@Drugsanddragonslul Jehovah's witnesses I'm guessing.

[@wacesferpit]

Arch: -> not controlled by evil corporations -> not horribly outdated packages -> actually has people working on it -> good size community and a lot of resources -> tons of packages in the standard repos + AUR -> actually useful for day to day and not server/embedded only -> Usable on a shitty laptop where compiling any relatively complex programs is horribly slow -> It's not Manjaro (people should stop recommending it, it's crap, sincerely someone who used it)

[@zerdagdir1988]

Manjaro is normie's arch

[@godfather7339]

Manjaro is good if you don't want to go through the meme installation process.

[@wacesferpit]

@@godfather7339 EndeavourOS, Anarchy installer, RebornOS, they still give a more vanilla Arch at the end than Manjaro

[@godfather7339]

@@wacesferpit was comparing it to arch.

[@Antonio-he4oh]

Counter point: manjaro good

[@N.S.A.]

Linux Mint always works or has solutions that are easy to follow. Arch solutions to problems always brings up specific errors for me that leads to a solution that leads to another error which just spirals deeper.

[@sandro5535]

Not to mention Mint is hella newcomer friendly. Even easier to install and use than Windows

[@ignultimate9162]

I tried installing Linux mint but when I did it said no bootable device, then I did some research and found out that my bios was the culprit, sadly I wouldn't be able to fix it. Was excited for using the distro tho, what a shame.

[@sandro5535]

@@ignultimate9162 Does other Linux work? Are you cucked to Windows?

[@ignultimate9162]

@@sandro5535 Manjaro worked (sort of), the install was successful but I wasn't able to boot in, but I found that sticking the bootable USB where I had installed manjaro from and booting that way worked. I'm planning on switching to Gnu/Linux if I ever get a new laptop.

[@sandro5535]

@@ignultimate9162 I suppose you will buy a model like Dell, System76 or Starlads? Then you are guaranteed that Linux will work

[@themule8625]

>Wants a "just werks distro" >installs arch.

[@uvuvwevwevweossaswithglasses]

Choose one

[@iskamag]

Arch just works tho

[@dcfuksurmom]

I've had more issues with Debian and Ubuntu than I have any other Linux distro I've tried (mostly Arch or Fedora based stuff). I've yet to have any issues with anything Arch based, with the exception of Manjaro, which was a problem on their end. Currently using Artix, which is basically just Arch but is lets you choose your init system more freely.

[@kier_eli]

@@iskamag No, it doesn't. The other day grub just broke. Something that Debian-based distro possibly didn't even read on the news.

[@iskamag]

@@kier_eli you're months late, I use Guix now.

[@vercolit]

I love my arch setup. Arch looks complicated at first, but knowing what packages you have and choosing what you use ends up being easier for me to maintain in the long run. It's easy to just try out another DE, or even a WM, and it's pretty minimalistic. I haven't had a program that wasn't on pacman or on the aur yet.

[@abanoub7002]

ah yes gentoo, my favorite just works distro

[@kevinpyro3008]

Manjaro and Arch are not basically the same. I thought they were at one point too, but Manjaro runs its own repos that intentionally keep packages 2 weeks behind what the mainline arch repos do for "stability" but this tends to break more things then it keeps stable. AUR packages will break OFTEN, and even if you don't use AUR packages some times updates to software expect you to be on the latest version of all software, which will break stuff. If you want an easy to install arch distro I'd highly recommend looking at endeavor OS or Garuda Linux instead, Manjaro breaks way too often to be considered a good distro imo.

[@tedkz6155]

Falling for /g/ memes imo gentoo was easier to install thanks to the handbook, the arch installation guide os more raw but in the end arch is easier/less time coomsomer to mantain

[@paulspl2581]

Everything is suprisingly easy to install if you take the time to read the documentation carefully put together by people who know what they're talking about. This is the gnu linux way

[@kexec.]

most hardest disto is obviously NixOS. Arch or Gentoo can’t beat this.

[@RamkrishanYT]

Hardest is clearly AmongOS

[@paulspl2581]

@@kexec. nixOS's install is trivial and really short. Are you trolling?

[@cronTabsolute]

@@paulspl2581 trolls don’t exist on the internet bro

[@stefun666]

Tried Artix, Manjaro and Vanilla Arch. Though in the end I got back to ArcoLinuxB which proved to be the most stable if you like to have good looking Desktops without having to rice it all from scratch.

[@midplanewanderer9507]

Yeah. (Never tried Artix, though). I really dig Erik's philosophy, and fell in love with the tweaked candy icons. More importantly, ArcoLinuxB has so far proven freaky-stable and pleasant to navigate on my cheap-ass Acer lap top (knock-on-wood). It's become my daily-driver. He seems like an earnest hard-working KZbin dude who just wants to teach Arch (or at least the inherent flexibility of an Arch-Based system, if you're willing to learn) and by Crom, I'm learning. I'm just lusting for even more cheap 2nd-hand laptops to play around on with. But his channel is depressingly underrated. There's a lot of really good valuable information there. Oh well, I myself will never go back to the Corporate walled-in-gardens.

[@stefun666]

@@midplanewanderer9507 100% agree - Erik put out loads of great tutorials.

[@alec7987]

Arco is great, I wish more people would recommend it over Manjaro.

[@jastaneim9252]

@@alec7987 Should I move from Manjaro to Arco or Arch? Manjaro was the right choice at the time.

[@kashantariq9987]

Give endeavor a try. Stable, minimalist and closest to barebone arch with a gui. No separate repos like manjaro. The only real flaw it has is systemd :(

[@Eliotime3000]

I started to use Arch Linux five years ago. It's literally the IKEA of GNU/Linux distros and I didn't have major problems except from AUR ones. Another stuff that I noticed is the fact that I started to use Parabola GNU/Linux-libre, the level of optimization lf that distro is sincerely insane, like Gentoo with SystemD.

[@Winnetou17]

If Arch is the IKEA of GNU/Linux, then what is Gentoo ? And, just to be sure, in case you or somebody else was thinking of it, using Gentoo in this analogy is not you being the carpenter. You're still not writing code.

[@nman3683]

@@Winnetou17 but a carpenter doesn’t cut down the trees and make boards, or make the nails/staples. It could work in that case still.

[@jastaneim9252]

@@Winnetou17 Arch is like buying from IKEA, Gentoo is a cheap scraper stealing parts from garbage dumping sites to build furniture.

[@adgodsgiving6980]

the coder is the one that make the trees, the carpenter is gentoo(because u manipulate the trees to get the object) and arch is the ikea because u put together the objects

[@Winnetou17]

Ok, fine, you convinced me, Gentoo is the carpenter and Arch is the IKEA. Nice points made!

[@lolplayfelix-_-2713]

i love artix, thanks for covering my favorite distro hands-down

[@greob]

Remember to donate to your favourite distributions! And optionally, donate to the package repositories (mirrors) too. Also it might be a good idea to put hyper links to what you talk about in the descriptions of your videos.

[@mathisblair2798]

Agreed.

[@Skelterbane69]

I wish I could, but my bank won't allow me to donate to the hyprland dev lol Wish he'd use a different site/method.

[@YrmiZ]

Great point!

[@thecountrox]

been using artix for quite the while now (runit ofc) and the boot times are much faster on my hard drive and its much more performant than arch in my opinion due to the sheer fps difference in games ive noticed (like 140 on arch and 190-210 on artix ) im not saying its got no issues , all issues can be fixed with a bit of tinkering and yes its more minimal than arch. also the arch wiki just works on artix except init system for that i use void wiki for runit.

[@_DT_]

Me too but I changed the init from runit to dinit just to test it and is working pretty well they have comparable boot time thanks to my slow HDD. wpa_supplicant (which I can't figure out how to point a subprocess output to /dev/null) stopped logging in my TTY thanks to dinit

[@LiveType]

Interesting. Performance differences shouldn't be that big between distros. That's literally an entire hardware tier or two higher. Must be more going on under the hood on your system. I will investigate.

[@seesoftware]

was probably using nouveau gpu driver on arch.

[@dunkelwelpling]

What, 140 to 190-210fps!? Just because you use runit instead of System D? That's huge, the difference shouldn't be that big! Now i'm curious, how many fps do you get on Windows 10/11 in comparison and what games have you been testing?

[@thecountrox]

@@LiveType the game im trying to run really depends on cpu , also i feel i really shouldve mentioned this but i use linux-tkg on my artix

[@BjornsTIR]

Artix really surprised me. I've been daily driving the runit version with xfce for almost three months now, and it has been one of my less complicated linux experiences.

[@Cookiekeks]

Your arch install guide made me use arch, and I daily drive it now since months. Thank you!

[@josephs2137]

Thank you for everything you do, brother ✌️

[@Lagggerengineering]

Captain Disillusion also mentioned elitist behaviour with Blender. Many people were upset for somebody even bringing up the idea of implementing an Undo button... Nevermind that it wasn't implemented yet after years of development, there were people even opposed to the idea stating "if you have to use the undo button you're not skilled enough to use Blender" Completely batsh*t stupid and I am pretty sure the same thing goes for the Arch installer.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

That has diminished considerably after the 2.8 UI overall, since we have much more people from all walks of life using it and not just your average GNUJoe.

[@magicman3669]

As someone who is currently struggling with setting up Arch for the first time, it's good to know there's an installer.

[@Z29vZ2xlc3Vja3Mu]

I recently installed Artix on my laptop and I think it will be my next daily driver OS. I've liked Manjaro for the last few months that I've used it, but the delay in package updates is getting to me. I will be taking Pamac with me though.

[@M1America]

I have used artix exclusively for a couple years, since lukes video on it. I love it. My only issue with it is sometimes it loses keys for repos. Probably doing something wrong. And I guess not having systemd, its not trivial to have zfs automount. Which is super crucial for zfs on root if you are having split datasets for different parts of your root. But thats an issue with openzfs and its reliance on soystemd that way.

[@AshnSilvercorp]

I got Arch installed as my first Linux distro away from Windows as my first GNU+Linux experience, and yea, the installation took a while, but I think more of my time was spent on me double checking myself on what I was putting in. What I was doing was incredibly minimal while following the Wiki. I got KDE and its suite installed just fine, and I've only had minor bugs here and there, but never stuff that outright broke my system. Yet... at least. I'm more than happy having people join Arch under a forked version with a GUI installer or such with how smooth it is to update things.

[@M1America]

I'm impressed! I had a lot more trouble, but I also did a lot of screwing around.

[@aqualili]

Ok, but if you don't know what grub is, how to partition a drive, what the standard desktop environments are... you'd never get Arch installed. my first time installing was ez cuz I'd been daily driving Deb for a year.

[@AshnSilvercorp]

@@aqualili well, I followed the Wiki AND DT.

[@Lojemiru]

@@aqualili I finished setting up Arch a few weeks ago as my first serious desktop Linux install... pretty much ever? Wasn't familiar with GRUB or DEs, and hadn't formatted a drive on Linux without being walked through it on Windows. Took an evening, but it wasn't hard to figure anything out. The documentation is good.

[@dontdex8221]

So he's back to Arch after the gentoo meme. Can't wait for Luke's next video in the woods ranting how gentoo isnt enough.

[@vlad.the.impaler.]

Switched to arch this summer after getting your arch install recommended. A step or two might have changed with time, but the guide is still essentially the best resource for installing arch on youtube.. Now If I need to re-install it I can easily do it in less than 10min

[@EarthWalkerOne]

I used manjaro for years and always loved it. I recently begrudgingly switched to ubuntu to make testing a lot of AI/ML projects much easier. The most important question to answer in regards to linux is 'what will you use this computer for?' If you're doing something beyond consuming media, email and normal stuff, use whatever distro most people use for that task, it'll save you a lot of time.

[@mateojbuteler8974]

Lmao i literally switched to Arch yesterday and installed it the normal way, didn't know about this archinstall thing. It was still surprisingly easy, just pacman and chroot.

[@drew-et1mm]

i ran arch with i3 on an old macbook air (2013) and added another 2 hours to the battery life. After a few years I was pretty comfortable running those first couple commands to chroot and reinstall. Still running the same i3 config on a new thinkpad now. arch is cool and this installer is an awesome thing

[@penguin1714]

My side quest for december is to learn gentoo, and its going well but I cant find a real reason to stay. The software support is atrocious and most overlays ive tried dont actually work (in my experience). Crossdev has been pretty sweet for maintaining a bunch of toolchains, but arch is just a better distro. Its far more feature complete, stable, and friendly to new software than gentoo is. Small edit: the community is super nice and clearly works really hard to keep software maintained, but there is just far more support for software on arch. Way more packages are supported faster on arch. Its not even really comparable.

[@jastaneim9252]

Gentoo users are usually nicer while being more knowledgeable. It's nice.

[@penguin1714]

@Osgalion Support meaning a software is available and working in a stable state via portage, then yes.

[@penguin1714]

@@jastaneim9252 I've yet to encounter a rude gentoo user. I think thats another reason Im not quite ready to give up.

[@MichaelPesta]

He’s going for a (+2 int.) buff side quest, I’ll second him on this journey

[@penguin1714]

@@MichaelPesta with that extra +2 int ill be at 2 int. noone will be able to stop me...

[@matercomus]

yesss, great choice! I've been using Artix with runit and dwm for around 2 years as a AI student and it has been flawless :)

[@DeirdreYoung1]

Totally agree with your ranking. I wanted a drop-in replacement for Mac OS when the calling-home stuff came out. Installed Manjaro, resumed life. No fuss, no muss.

[@averagegeek3957]

I'm using Artix since 2019 and it's the best distro I've used so far. No systemd, very based.

[@_DT_]

I changed the init from runit to dinit

[@dcfuksurmom]

Using Artix with runit, boots in 10 seconds (grub to tty login) from an HDD most of the time, VS 30 seconds on Arch with systemd.

[@yukagami385]

Though i like artix alright i doubt id recommend it. The general experience isn't bad, but there was always this jury rigged feel to everything, not to mention using the AUR is more hit and miss than it usually is. The only major issue i had which did make me leave, was that i would frequently get a broken kernel update. I have not heard of any one else with this problem so i believe it might just me, however i have not had this problem on any other distro. If you want something similar to arch without systemd id go with void.

[@k98killer]

I like Manjaro, but I haven't used it in a few months because I couldn't get graphics drivers for my GPU that supported opencl and wanted to try W10 as a dev environment on my new laptop. Can't say I've been happy with W10.

[@Slipfox_xyz]

One thing to note with Artix, not only does it not include pamac in a fresh install, pamac is *not* on the official repos at *all*. This is because on top of being graphical Package Managers, they are also graphical AUR helpers, which are frowned upon because they don't teach proper AUR usage. You can re-add them by adding the universe repo to your pacman.conf, but if you must have pamac, use Manjaro or EndeavorOS

[@acdbrn2000]

I used to distro hop all the time. (Honestly I would also hop back and forth to windows as well). Basically whenever something ticked me off enough I would try something else. After switching to Manjaro I haven’t felt the need to hop. Arch’s power and flexibility, along with some great documentation, has made it so there really hasn’t been anything aggravating enough to make me want to switch.

[@taidee]

You're a good man Kenny, vanilla Arch(w Qtile wm) user here

[@GoneSoonHopefully]

The arch documentation is incredible, I daily Void and the arch wiki is usually where I head for help

[@user-lt2rw5nr9s]

2:00 I'll be honest, I prefer debian's package manager over pacman. Just makes more sense to me and I've always known those commands as how to install things.

[@gudamnlilmamuh6389]

That's exactly how I feel too,however I am getting fed up with having to apt purge and then apt autoremove for everything while in snap all you do is snap remove and it's all gone

[@notuxnobux]

sorry I dont have the PPA to understand your comment. Where can I find the obscure PPA and 7 commands that I need to run to add it?

[@9SMTM6]

Manjaros pamac is also a CLI wrapper for pacman, so you can have arch without the somewhat involved package manager.

[@talktothehand1212]

Honestly same. However, I did write a pretty simple bash program that translates apt commands into it's pacman equivalent. The program breaks down when it comes to AUR programs, but I personally almost never install from the AUR (also don't use PPAs on Debian/*buntu distros) so YMMV.

[@Aeduo]

probably could make aliases to map a lot of common apt tasks to pacman commands, but there's really just a handful you will likely have to mess with on a regular basis. pacman -Ss to search, pacman -S to install, pacman -Si for package information.

[@kennyheimbuch8686]

The Arch Wiki, the AUR and pacman/pamac are likely the most solid things in any distro and best things about Arch/Arch-based. (also Manjaro, Endeavor and Linux Mint all have the best, friendliest forums as far as that goes).

[@SaltyNotSweat]

I have been using Solus for a bit after distro hoping, but I really miss using arch. I just can't make up my mind on what DE I want to use when I make the switch.

[@johnterpack3940]

I have Artix on a thumb drive somewhere. Never got around to trying to install it. Can't wait to watch the video to find out why I should install it. Looking at Gentoo Studio right now. Bought me a shiny new 5-string bass and want to mess around with recording and producing my own noise. But maybe I could make "Artix Studio" a thing.

[@cdanny304]

I've been daily-driving "Linux" since the begin of July ,it started with Pop! OS. Almost 2 months ago I switched over to Arch (Installed manually ,not knowing that there was an guided installer) ,and haven't really noticed any differences in my use of my laptop. All what I am doing is browsing the web ,playing some games like Terraria ,Command & Conquer ,and Diablo II Resurrected. What made me stay with Arch is because I can install and mod the Distro as I see fit ,in Pop! OS this was a bit difficult to do.

[@lolkthnxbai]

Used artix w/ dwm on my laptop for a solid year without a single problem before I ended up on gentoo after replacing that machine. It's a great and solid distro.

[@Mariuspersem]

Been using Artix for about a year now, as a daily driver it is really nice

[@MisterConscio]

Thanks for guidind us into the Linux paradise.

[@Seris_]

Arch is the best "It just works" experience on my laptop. Its very nice compared to every other distro that has weird issues like wifi or audio not working.

[@aqualili]

In my experience, "it just works" until you start pushing it. Graphics drivers, lots of aur packages, gaming and such can really wear down it's integrity. I've probably had to reinstall arch 5+ times this year and I don't even game. Sometimes my system just starts running slow and it gets time to flash a new install on there.

[@LiveType]

@@aqualili lol, that's the classic linux experience. Didn't you know? The basics work rock solid. Probably the best computing experience available on any platform from my experience. The moment you start to need to power use things, welp you better be a developer or at least very interested in development work because things WILL break and you WILL need to start writing scripts, submitting bug reports devs will harass you over being unable to reproduce, or literally just fixing the problem yourself and submitting PRs. Things don't break this way on Windows, chromeOS, or macOS nearly as often or as severely.

[@umamifan]

@@LiveType Man I LOVE it when one of the dependencies break or some package starts to cause a conflict which leads me onto an hour or longer wild goose chase trying to find out why. And it's true, windows don't break in the same way, even though I've had windows start to gradually slow down after a year or two of installation, I never had the same issues or as many of the issues I've had on linux. Debian gets a pass though, with that I'd need to intentionally try to break that bad boy. But they're an exception because they use old shit with loads of checking and testing. The more modern stuff are more prone to self destruction or just out right messing up the experience

[@LiveType]

@@umamifan Bruh, I installed debian onto my laptop and then ran a speedometer 2.0 benchmark on chrome in a private tab. Yes, yes shout at me more for mainlining chrome. Score was 94. Not bad. Firefox was 74ish. Installed arch. No tweaking, no fiddling. Score 150 flat. Repeatedly. WAY faster. Disabling security mitigations raised it to 162. On a 4 almost 5 year old laptop. Literally faster than my desktop running windows with a 5900x. Granted it's a very, very bloated nearly 4 year old windows install. Nothing broke yet! Try to match that with a linux distro. My chromebook can only just match that running newer hardware. On a clean windows build with security disabled the system gets ~140ish. Crazy fast! So I run arch on all of my laptops. Some with DE's and some with ultra lightweight window managers. They break occasionally sure, but nothing reinstall worthy. One of them picked up a nasty wake from sleep habit that has been a nightmare to fix to the point I just don't use it anymore. Always a pleasure when you put your laptop in a backpack and it's dead 6 hours later when you need it. I'm sure I can write a script that denies all wake calls besides the lid, but I'm too lazy for that when I've got other laptops. I do have a debian server running docker containers. I don't think I've touched or updated it since 2015. LIterally the only time it gets powered off is when power goes out for 6 or more hours. Uptime is over 10k hours right now. I just slap a new docker container in there and it well, just works. Very impressive. I'm sure at one point it'll stop working and I'll need to update, but I haven't reached that point yet!

[@umamifan]

@@LiveType Man you're preaching to the choir

[@jan_harald]

finally you find the best distro, lol literally been running it for years, just the same as debian and arch, never breaks (unless you're doing stupid sh*t) and AUR is only reason why I can't leave arch, lol

[@9SMTM6]

Everyone always says that pamac is "a GUI Frontend for pacman". It includes a GUI, but in fact it an also be used from the console as a wrapper for pacman. This means, while it has less power, it also is pretty much as easy to use as dnf, apt etc, while also, once you enabled it (easiest in the GUI) offering the ability to install from the AUR with one tool. I find it quite handy and it's my default terminal package manager.

[@jacksmith1098]

Love your videos. Could you do a review of Kodachi OS? Looks intresting to me!

[@daringcuteseal]

OH YES WOO I LOVE ARTIX!

[@spinningjenny1629]

Jooo. Same for me. Started using Artix 5-6 months ago and it's very easy, quick and just overall great

[@Godalming123]

Ive been using endevour os for more then 2 years and at one point I stopped using it for a few months updated and everything went fine never has any problems with it!

[@Mattia_98]

pamac is not only a GUI frontend for pacman, but really a universal frontend for ArchLinux both cli and gui. Similar to yay, you can install packages from the AUR with pamac as if it was a regular package. It's also friendly to debian users since it has a similar syntax.

[@theredstonehive]

Manjaro was my first distro, I was just trying it as an experiment for a portable USB install to revive an old laptop that had a dead hard drive (or so I thought at the time), but ended up loving it so much that I put it on my main machine a couple of years later before switching to Arch. I think it is absolutely a good idea to recommend one of the more "advanced" distros to new users, so long as they are interested enough to want to solve their own problems.

[@experiment86]

Somewhat related, what do you use for video editing in Linux?

[@milkytapwater1686]

good video. i've been on the fence about linux for a while and i think this might be the push i need to stop being a windows normie

[@arturdawid6882]

Thanks to your older video I switched to Void from Arch and it's going FAST ;). However I can agree that Arch became "It just works" distro.

[@starspritechippy]

There's also a project called archgui which will do the setup for you already, I had no problem installing that to an old thinkpad as an absolute beginner

[@vierfach4407]

great video! although, i wish you mentioned endeavourOS lol

[@lucaslopes1260]

The problem with those "easy" distros is that sooner or later there will be a problem you can't solve, and most likely can't put your finger on. Instead of always seeking easier solutions, it's better to learn more so you can make things easier for yourself. (Says the guy who is posting this from Manjaro)

[@pixelbogpixxelbog2090]

😂😂 but yeah you arent wrong

[@tavinl]

i installed arch as my first distro from windows, i was going to go with mint until i learned that arch was more up to date. took me about 2 days and 4 reinstalls to get it working. the hardest thing yet is not knowing what i need only to when i need it it isn't there and off i go to google to search for a solution. but now that i have most of what i need i can enjoy the performance that linux provides me.

[@CyberTechSRB]

i have a bad experience with Artix. installing with Xfce or KDE network manager act weird..when I connect to wifi all apps won't open. when disconnected everything works again. I tried to install to multiple PC i had same expirience.also connectig to my openwrt router is not working properly i dont know why while other devices and linux distros works fine

[@xorsirenz]

tried artix for about 6+ months almost 2 years ago.. wanted to tryout different init systems. wasnt a fan of artix. it felt like a bootleg version of arch and had more issue then i had with arch for 4+ years. went back to arch 2 years ago. still no issues yet.

[@xorsirenz]

@@AdrianHernandez-ul4in i wanted to remove it that fast as well, but i at least wanted to give it a shot trying all 3 init systems they offered and enough time to get use to the system so my opinion wasnt biased. after all that i realized i just wasted my time. You saved yourself the pointless hours of using it. good choice lol

[@mao5170]

Artix don't have as thorough and as great of a documuntation than arch or gentoo. Had it had good documentation I'd have use it as my main.

[@comicsans1689]

I keep using Artix because it's lean and Runit makes for a speedy quick boot up compared to SoystemD, but I will admit the lack of SoystemD makes it hard to troubleshoot some processes.

[@xorsirenz]

@Watcher i agree, and gentoo is not hard at all to install, it just takes time to compile everything. a waiting game basically.

[@xorsirenz]

@@comicsans1689 my arch system with systemd boots just as fast as my artix system with any of those init systems. If you can personally tell the difference between fractions of a second, also If you reboot your pc that many times and it’s actually affecting your productivity then there’s another underlining issue. Systemd is a suite, not just an init system so you shouldn’t compare a bag of apples to one orange..

[@highcasual2216]

Man, I love your videos! Could you make a video about an decentralized discord alternative, if there is any available. Cheers!

[@NADEEMKHAN-sj5hn]

Endeavor OS, Reborn OS and Cachy OS are the only Arch based distros i like and recommend and because of these i stopped Arch distro hopping because they could install any desktop environment with one iso

[@supercel55]

Is there any gaming friendly linux distros that you know of/can make a video on? I am hardware banned on rainbow for using a VM running gentoo

[@wianbroes7853]

Arcolinux is nice (I liked to choose lots of desktop on login screen and see what i like), i personaly use manjaro daily because i am a newbee and still learning linux ^^. I always comeback on a arch based distro instead of debian.

[@greensmurf221]

Based Xue Bro. [Dabs in XFCE]

[@papajohnsuk5965]

Based

[@thisisobviouslybait]

There are a couple gui arch installers now that are community made using Calamares.

[@omercurial5919]

I use Arch, but it's because I think it's simple enough. I know the manuals seem daunting enough, but from a guy who works with programming and tech support, it's quite a good read.

[@dodoradio7982]

I had one server running debian. I became so frustrated with debian packages that I installed arch when setting up my other one. Using anarchy installer made that surprisingly easy, though I did go headless for obvious reasons

[@MB-up3mh]

I hate changing os, tried a few on new laptop and settled with Artix, really cool distro.

[@vintovkasnipera]

I use artix-openrc on my 2010 dell vostro and installed dwm on it. It's very cool, takes only as much as 100 MB RAM after I start x

[@82000]

Would you consider taking a look at Obarun Linux as another systemd-less Arch alternative? I'm interested to see what you think about things like the 66 service manager.

[@TILR]

I remember seeing people getting upset over the Arch Installer...which just made me roll my eyes so much

[@BobSmith-oo7ei]

Manjaro didn't play nice with the hardware I put it on. I might try Artix. Im curious about your thoughts on PureOS.

[@zachw566]

Windows does actually have a package manager now. It’s not perfect but it’s much better than the old solution

[@JkyLi]

I run artix with openrc for a few months after watching luke smith's video. Nice to see the dark version of luke smith join the artix gang.

[@l.iwakura6553]

Gotta say, got opensuse ony desktop yesterday, but god I can't live without arch and its derivatives, its simply so moldable into anything, aur and pacman are simply amazing.

[@mrbruh6687]

I've always just used Kali/Parrot Sec for my linux distros I can do anything I need to do on both and have they have the ethical hacking ribbon on top.

[@rolkaaaaa]

I use artix on my thinkpad x201 as a daily driver in school, but it seems artix is a bit problematic with running the nvidia-optimus stuff at least it would crash for me on my other laptop with the open-rc package since the original one is for systemd unless a runit one got developed, but yeah artix seems fine other than that, but a bit funky that you need to enable the arch repositories to be able to get a bunch of stuff.

[@Nelex111]

I started using Arch a few years ago and then I wanted to switch to something more user friendly. I didn't like Manjaro, but god EndeavourOS is so good, I'm a big fan of this distro rn

[@theluckycountry463]

I might try arch/manjaro a go once they sorted being able to keep secure boot on in my bios, ubuntu has that sorted

[@fish3977]

arch elitists are so weird all it takes to install arch is to know how to copy what ever you are told to type into the terminal by the wiki (the guide on this channel is somewhat outdated on few bits so if the two are in conflict, follow the wiki) the fact that there's a way of doing that without having the manual open on another device or memorizing it like some shitty magic spell is just good for everyone. that being said, I''m just running manjaro untill I can be arsed to tinker a nice and usable UI for the big bois' distro

[@fish3977]

@gu4t4f4c seeing how I've got maybe doze braincells to decide with and I managed to install arch, that really shouldn't be an issue. when the wiki tells you that you can do X now if you want to but you don't know what X is after skimming the wiki page, just skip it :v

[@M1America]

Exactly this. Alternate filesystems fascinate me and there are a million permutations to set things up on linux. For example lvm on luks on mdadm raid 10 with a spare disk. How are you going to do that on an installer? To do it on the debian desktop installer os a hack. Doing it on the debian server net installer works but you have to dive from the curses menu into command line for a bit and back again. If you know the systems at play command line is the best way to go.

[@guilhermecoelho5028]

If you haven't broke your gentoo, are you even using it? 😂Btw, nice to know about Artix... heard about it, never tested it. And also happy holidays!

[@iputapipebombintoyourmailb6210]

virgin manjaro users vs chad linux mint enjoyer vs colonel sanders artix enthusiast

[@florianfelix8295]

Kenny what do you think of hyperbola working on a gnu/openbsd kernel? maybe worth a shout out :)

[@bobbyhinner3225]

I’ve been thinking about switching to arch for a while, but I’ve been running fedora for a few months and I have it setup for my school/work/game needs pretty well after a while of adjusting and fine tuning

[@j_rryplays8038]

i’m in the same boat as you.. i’m going to install arch this week or next week and see how i like it for school usage

[@aleksanderkrauze9304]

Good for you. As Arch wiki says: "You may not want to use Arch, if you are happy with your current OS.".

[@j_rryplays8038]

@@aleksanderkrauze9304 Im happy with my current OS, but the neofetch logo is too good to live without and i really wanna try something more keyboard oriented with a window manager

[@aleksanderkrauze9304]

@@j_rryplays8038 Ach, of course. I forgot about neofetch. 😁

[@tacticalcenter8658]

Garuda arch linux was easy to install and detected the hardware well. But its not without its con's. Good one to try. You will have to fix things a lot if your updating and messing with things. I only chose it cause it had steam installed by default and a bunch of other gaming features.

[@eac-ox2ly]

I was just installing Artix. Seems like it's truly based af.

[@sip_water]

Artix in the last year or two has gotten really polished in the last few years. I used to consider it a meme distro / protest distro despite using it, but these days it clearly is not. Your typical average user may not ever even need to write an init script if they use runit or openrc these days. It replaced not only my 'just werks' fast to deploy desktop OS, cured my distro hopping, and it's overtaken Manjaro/Mint/Ubuntu/Debian/etc as the distro I tell new users I am educating to use at home. I don't use Artix FOR education per se, but I legitimately think Arch/Artix/etc are better new user experiences than the typical distros you see thrown about. Especially with how good the documentation is, I get a lot less calls a month or two later asking for help.

[@donniehdea9281]

It does sound interesting, I just don’t want to give up the Inertia I have with Debian

[@dckface2751]

Archcraft is a fairly new 'just works' arch distro, its built to look riced out of box and the installer is really easy to use

[@servus_incognitus]

Thanks!

[@jfangx]

I been using endeavour because i wanted arch without having to spend 20 min in cli. Dont get me wrong "standard operating procedure" is a good thing to know, but it isnt needed for most people who just wanna get on and go. Linux is already do you boo.

[@randgrithr7387]

Endeavour helped me learned CLI though. Apparently pacman/yay is stupid easy and way better than Manjaro's pamac.

[@jfangx]

-Ss is so nice.

[@viridiantelamon]

Cool!