New Release of Archcraft OS. Will It Change My Mind?

Last year, I took a look at a new Linux distro called Archcraft OS on camera. I trashed Archcraft on that video due to it being virtually unusable due to some insanely small font sizes that caused me pain just looking at it. Well, Archcraft has recently had a new release with a lot of changes, and the main dev has asked me to take another look at it. Fair enough. Will the new release change my opinion of this distro?
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[@kamikamieu]

Plot twist: The strong and complicated password is not “dt”

[@ChitrakChattopadhyay]

its pp

[@pakistanigamer6525]

It's 12

[@robert58]

it's td

[@rafeu2288]

It's two unicode emojis on a special layer on his moonlander. :P

[@Kacper_59]

its td

[@gnvageesh6467]

DT: "Eww the fonts are too small" Archcraft: "Noted!!" (in there next release) DT: "Wow! The fonts and icons are awesome"

[@hosseines276]

when you changed the theme, it was like a hook, I was just "Wow! I should try Archcraft!" shout out to Developers! nice work guys, nice work ❤🔥

[@Alexander-is9jo]

Absolutely. Beautifully done devs

[@swayamshah6891]

there's only one dev! just one guy makes and maintains the entire thing!

[@kartikeyachitranshi782]

Hey, is it only me or does anyone else thinks that the download of archcraft from sourceforge is too slow. Like I am getting right around 30kb/s.

[@paarthjuneja3707]

@@kartikeyachitranshi782 Yeah sometimes there are slow mirrors. After you start the download press the 'Problems Downloading?' button and choose some other mirror. Then your download will be fast (This worked for me as well.)

[@SuryanIsaac]

@@kartikeyachitranshi782 I used the github mirror, got it downloaded in 30 seconds or something, sourceforge was very slow for me too

[@khosrawazizi]

When he said threads from his AMD Threadripper, I felt threatened ;-;

[@twb0109]

Threadened

[@asimocloud5736]

@@twb0109 lmao

[@Mantorp86]

ArchCraft is my next distro just because I want a bspwm environment that looks good but I don’t have the nerves to customize all by myself 😊

[@helioscat4231]

Yeah. True, nerves need to be saved since young ages. There are so many Linuxes and only one nerve system. Hope developers also understanding this better than ones of ubuntu. The more updates - the more things stop to work)

[@jimxu1963]

Yeah I also had archcraft, this is pretty much the coolest stock build arch distro I’ve seen.

[@jimxu1963]

Also the prompt is also homemade by the Dev. Kudos to them.

[@christopherlewis1948]

Nice of both you and the dev to keep up on the status and review of the project.

[@xLenan]

I'm really curious what this guy would achieve with AwesomeWM. This distro is beautifull.

[@twb0109]

Or with XMonad

[@Hexalyse]

​@@twb0109 What is better in Awesome or XMonad ?

[@twb0109]

@@Hexalyse They are very customizable, not really better, equally good

[@twb0109]

I would also include dwm, but if you want something impressive from dwm you'll need to have a lot of C knowledge to create your own patches and functions.

[@xLenan]

@@Hexalyse AwesomWM has a really flexible widget-system. With it, you can basically create your own DE without having to download any of the other commonly used software, like polybar. But what I really like about it, is that it's the only WM(that I've tried) that doesn't have issues/drawbacks with a multi-monitor setup.

[@daringcuteseal]

Wow. That's a sleek desktop :o Also omg I'm crying your vm is faster than my real system 😭

[@brianchandler3346]

Man. Great to see a well thought out Openbox setup directly after install. I'll have to give this one a go.

[@fluxbesterman]

Nice! I'm thinking about installing it after watching this video. Thanks!

[@indrajitsarkar3169]

thanks for the review.

[@GreyDeathVaccine]

I have wanted to try bspwm for a while. Good to know that there is a preconfigured distro, because normaly you have to install separate keyboard deamon to listen to your keybindings so it can be channeled to bcspw client program. Well done Archcraft devs! :-)

[@lobsangoser9581]

bspwm also has themes, including gruvbox :)

[@bhargavdasgupta6580]

Great video! A video on Gentoo linux please.

[@carlosjoaquinmoralescarpin3296]

Het, DT!, very good video, this new release look awesome, and it made me remember, In the lastest releases of Endeavour Os, they've launch new enviroments, like sway and bspwm, i tried the bspwm version and it looks very nice and it comes very well customized out of the box, maybe you shloud try it too

[@smeake]

I loved this video Derek, I think I’m definitely going to try ArchCraft at some point.

[@AmrAlserougy]

thank you , I think i'm going to try this one keep up the brilliant work , God bless

[@irlshrek]

Wow this is awesome..I wanna try it out

[@KvnAol]

Dt should be a linux meme by now :). Especially how that strong and complicated password is a mystery and unknowable

[@kowsirahmed5668]

This is really awesome. Gotta try this one.

[@dacritter8397]

Thanks for giving Archcraft OS another look. I haven't really been a big fan of openbox. Not a detractor either, just always felt kinda "meh" obout it. It's right in the middle -- like either too much or too little -- if that makes sense. Archcraft got this right, IMO. This is THE best 'out of the box' openbox setup I've ever seen. There's really nothing I'd change aside from typical installing packages. I'm keeping this on on the machine for a while.

[@mjdxp5688]

Wow, this distro is beautiful. I might try it out.

[@Mangeshrex_]

Same here crazy to try arch craft

[@soulninjadev]

I just dual booted it. its beautiful

[@willardorwud]

Hey DT, I would love to see you take a look at QubesOS, because it is such a unique distro.

[@muntazirsaad1603]

DT, man i really love all your linux videos please keep going

[@ligma3852]

The improvements look great

[@facepunch0122]

Will check this out looks nice

[@millankumar9245]

Hey DT, would you take a look at Peux OS? It has an Xmonad addition/version (in a previous video you said you would look at any distros that had one, because most don't).

[@bnv1n]

@DistroTube Awesome content, can you please review the i3 version of archcraft that just released a few days ago?

[@boorno1406]

The root file manager shortcut is for Thunar instead of PCManFM probably because PCManFM doesn't have the 'run as root' option anymore. You can manually add it back, but I guess the devs found it too big a hassle.

[@borise4104]

DT, thanks for video! One question is about description, where you list software that you use. Why there Brave browser, when it has undisabable "update" and telemetry? Instead of ungoogled chromium or librewolf? Even ffox with right settings is more free browser than brave.

[@willywantoknow2563]

This may be what im looking for. I tried to configure openbox from clean slate.... Ya, there's a lot to do. I'm finding having a system with no bloat really helps my focus on work. First time running Windows i got too distracted playing minesweeper and solitaire. Having a personalized look drew me into enjoying my work environment and i got more accomplished (after the customization was finished that is 😏)

[@alexlawson2750]

@DistroTube I'm still on the fence - I've followed your video step by step as well as following along with the official docs and installing in a Virtualbox VM on Windows 10 is giving me major issues on 5/30/2021. New user isn't created after using Calamare install. Terminal (Allacritty) won't launch in default user session because it isn't installed. "Expert" installer won't launch from openbox WM in liveuser session. I'm really anxious to give this a shot but I'm still not sold. I've tried 4 fresh ISO downloads and have attempted to install this coming up on 7 times now. There's always a real chance it's something I'm doing, but at this point I'm pretty positive it's not me. I'm really not sure what I could be doing wrong.

[@MarkDavidMcCoskey]

Downloading the Archcraft-2022.06.08-x86_64.iso right now. Will give it a spin first thing tomorrow morning, along with my coffee. Thanks.

[@thingsthatareart.andwhytha5713]

Yea this is amazing. Im gonna switch to it soon. This is epic

[@ashwin372]

damn freaking cool openbox!

[@illuminaut9148]

Excellent!

[@supertrooper6011]

Archcraft is looking great. Glad you took it for another spin.

[@z3nsh3ll]

Thanks for this vid on how many cores your threadripper has

[@debianswami8204]

Padme: "you're so dark!" Obi-wan: "you have turned to the dark side....." DT: "hold my beer.... I do not fear the dark side, like you do!!"

[@motif5775]

That looks like a really nice distro. Just needs a few tweaks here and there.

[@fenyx6573]

You're a gem, sir.

[@dougtilaran3496]

A good openbox will always get my attention

[@desmondsparrs]

hahaha, the complicated password-goof never gets old :D

[@fluffyhoitydino]

Thank you!

[@rickbhattacharya2334]

Man this distro looks cool ! Something i would personally build myself with openbox . Gonna give it a try hopefully won't disappoint me . One thing i didn't liked is the login manager . I hope they add something more beautiful there .

[@a9nh]

Love at first sight!

[@technomatic6285]

Hey DT, How are you? :)

[@DistroTube]

Doing just fine. Heading out to grab lunch and get in "chest and shoulders day" at the gym. :D

[@technomatic6285]

@@DistroTube Have a good one sir! Take care..

[@knutblaise9437]

It's there a way to modify the folder based system which is used for finding end running programs? When I click the right button I would like the apps which I commonly use to be displayed and Below those have the folders showing all available apps. Even better I would like to have icons for each of the commonly used apps to be displayed upon clicking the right Mouse button and then have an option to go into a folder system for all apps which would be similar to Windows 10.

[@ninobien]

Nice video. nice distro. It looks like one man band... is it?

[@polgzz]

Well, I have Midori installed (as well as badwoolf (AUR)). And yes my main browser is firefox, but if I don't have it opened and I just want to very quickly search the meaning of something and close the browser, I would launch any of the two aforementioned. Because in my (very) old core2duo laptop, even with SSD, firefox takes about 5-6 seconds to launch (at least). So, for a lightweight distro based on openbox, it could make sense. The thing I hate about midori... is that "quickview" on new tabs that can't be removed 😤😤😤, that shows where you have browsed before. I really hate that, and thats why usually I would go to badwolf to just search something really quick

[@JGott0001]

Looks great

[@littlepeon]

Why such hate on Midori?!! It's a great lightweight browser...this is supposed to be a lightweight Distro... Midori works great on an old Core2 duo I have w/2GB RAM total. We all don't have 24 core Threadrippers like some people...lol 😂

[@GreyDeathVaccine]

@@sheepy0125 Did you report that to devs?

[@Vysair]

vivaldi gang...I cant live without the features and second level tabbing for tab stack is a must

[@rafitoelzapatico]

I have an old macbook air late 2008 with core 2 duo and 2 gb ram what linux distro you recommend? I tried zorin os lite 32bits but usb doesnt work

[@littlepeon]

@@rafitoelzapatico Lubuntu, Crunchbang plus plus, puppy linux.. w/2 GB RAM, your going to need a 3GB swap file/ partition and even then don't open more than 10 tabs in FF/ Chrome or you will run out of RAM.

[@shadowsilverlight1651]

exactly david. these people want lite distros without all the bloated extra software and also to customize it and the Dev gives them what they asked for and they still bitch about. they can put whatever browser or app they want and get rid of what the Dev included, but they choose to bitch about it first and then make the changes. i see after many years of being out of computers, its still filled with whiney computer geeks.

[@LarryGaringfrog]

Only one problem with this video and that is that Manjaro no longer has a Community edition of Openbox. And from what I have seen of Archcraft I'm thinking of switching from my Manjaro Openbox since its not really in production anymore. Thank you for doing this for us.

[@andreaschatzopoulos]

There is Mabox now, but I'm not sure if it's active still..

[@knutblaise9437]

10:10 "super enter opens a terminal" - which key/keys correspond to supet?

[@oakmen4604]

The one with a window on it.

[@kokololokokololo1]

hey dt , any chance that you make a video about installing webmin and virtualmin on arch system, i searched but i did not find anything, thank you in advance, peace from Switzerland

[@honeybadger781]

The calamares installer is a big upgrade from the ncurses one. Super+c for close window? I bet I'd hit that by mistake when Ctrl+c to copy.

[@GreyDeathVaccine]

I use i3wm tiling window manager exclusively. Default keybinding for closing window is Win+Shift+Q. I changed for Win+Q because lots of applications applications have long had the Ctrl + Q keybinding. So both Win + Q and Ctrl + Q are really close each other and it doesn't conflict too much with my muscle memory :-)

[@honeybadger781]

@@GreyDeathVaccine Same. I even switch Alt F4 in Gnome and Plasma to Super Q

[@knutblaise9437]

Is there a way to drag links to files websites and applications to the desktop?

[@rooneye]

Change style...Where has the grid theme gone? Anyone know how to get it back?

[@jones5305]

Noooo xD dont make me change too dt 😂😂😂😉 probably will if they support xmonad

[@TBechs]

I downloaded the newest version of Archcraft recently, and it's even better than in this video. Gotta say, I was very impressed. I am actually considering switching from my pretty PopOS install to Archcraft

[@example101]

More fun than the night distro hopping lol.

[@r3dum877]

20:03 don't you think this wallpaper reminds a dark city looking default wallpaper in ANTIX. Which actually brings me to.. This is actually ARCH version for.. Antix segment

[@Willibef]

Imo a bigger standard font size is a part of the user-friendliness of a distro. One doesn't have to be visually impaired to prefer that.

[@rodrigocarvalho2335]

Hello. I have a problem. After installing archcraft openbox and changing the theme, the system becomes slow, unresponsive and completely crashes. Any help to solve this problem?

[@Dope_Stories]

I think this is the first time I ever saw someone where a creed tshirt

[@orrinblack8137]

Really enjoy using OpenBox on Archcraft.

[@kornhlios]

I replaced my manjaro instalation with archcraft today and was seriously impressed. Great job

[@linuxrant]

I think Archcraft deserves a space among the Linux Hall of Fame, among Arco, Manjaro Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora etc... It certainly brings something awesome to the table, and makes accessible for a fresh user the proper Linux Experience only some nerds can setup for themselves, all packed in a shiny christmas gift wrap.

[@kernelpanic901]

I’m gonna embrace Archcraft ‘WITH ARMS WIDE OPENNNNNN!!’

[@piratedragon703]

i just installed this, and i dont get any menu when I right click anywhere...

[@zayanrohanda2809]

The newest iso had Windows 11 Style, pretty cool.

[@fredrik2008]

Lol welcome to my world, I use a 4k tv, and alot of stuff is tiny if they dont support hidpi good , which is pretty mutch all tiling wm:s.

[@unclefester9113]

Stupid thing doesn't behave right - latching onto the mouse in VM. Combined Alt/Cntrl - does nothing ?

[@VittoIB]

Sounds like you took ArchCraft back "with arms wide open." *Muxika has left the chat.*

[@wolfgangfalck1250]

So there is a new Archcraft Spin called Derek Taylor version? Do they pay him royalties? ;)

[@NoEntityHere]

Looks like there are some new Arco ISO's

[@liftlinux9421]

ArcoLinuxS, ArcoLinuxL

[@kaerithmallock]

And it's confusing

[@thomasthewatchman]

now i dont know if i wanna do archo, arch vanilla or this.......

[@armynyus9123]

389 Megabyte for THIS WM experience? That's less than I have with dwm running, now this is impressive.

[@tonythai5991]

It will takes a Quantum computer to crack that password

[@thatonelonghairedguy764]

been looking for a lighter distro as i tend to be a RAM hoarder. Mint is nice but I know what im putting on my new hp

[@mecrumbly429___4]

Arch-based calamares distros are getting even more popular than Debian/ubuntu KDE distros.

[@combatjeyj6234]

ayo pacman is superior once you try it you never go back

[@andreaschatzopoulos]

Indeed. I love the new PopOS release for instance, but no way I'm going back to PPA hell. On Manjaro now.. AUR is just awesome. May give this one a try next.

[@bigfood2001]

DT, i think you're too harsh on the developer. Midori is a nice distro-specific customization, even though he coule have installed firefox in parallel

[@rumble1925]

I love this distro. Tried it on real hardware and it runs great and looks amazing.

[@histoomuch]

I have a problem with Network_Manager on Archcraft

[@mohammedazahaf]

it reminds me of "SWAG ARCH"

[@Cookiekeks]

Could you do more on awesomeWM?

[@soheil424]

I hope the creator of Archcraft read these lines here since I was not able to message him directly on his webpage. Choosing BTRFS as default file system is a brave move however many normal users still prefer EXT4 due to simplicity. BTRFS is hell complex and it has various uses on production workstations and servers, for a normal user setup I believe there is still no need for such a complex filesystem, EXT4 can do the job well. Probably he can add EXT4 to installation process for one to choose. However, his BTRFS setup disables swap. I wish he could fix this as well. I was not able to add a minimal swap to fstab. thanks.

[@keilmillerjr9701]

Ext4 has great compatibility as well. When you need to take a disk and stick it in another machine, chances are it will read.

[@Phydoux2112]

Qtile? Nah, what about xmonad with auto xmonad restart and recompile after updates.

[@linuxrant]

Does anybody know an Archcraft equivalent for debian?

[@gettriggered_ian3269]

I use Void btw

[@sumnerd69]

I'm the opposite of you about the wallpaper and theme. I like dark on dark and light on light

[@michaelhansen6895]

you can install dwm in archcraft pacman -S archcraft-dwm look very nice

[@resofactor]

Adi has a done a great job with ArchCraft.

[@dougtilaran3496]

Live user doesnt work with liveuser pass//WRONG,. Boot the second uefi entry on your usb and liveuser works fine.This critter is quick on the usb3, Might would make a good travelers stick

[@kaerithmallock]

You should have shown the blur

[@bjronthompson1438]

switched to archcraft like literally yesterday, pretty lightweight

[@illuminaut9148]

I guess i found my new Distro, from Arch to Archcraft

[@atemoc]

The only true "lightweight" distros that I can actually use day-to-day on my crappy laptop are Debian and arch, both installed from scratch On Arch right now, 150Megs of ram used at boot and no CPU usage, or 190Megs and a tiny bit of CPU if I want everything I could want (animated wallpaper, background apps like a graphical clipboard manager, screenshot utility, compositor, polyckit agent), with nice, light and fast dmenu (fully POSIX-compliant and ran with dash) scripts to access programs, settings, musics, wallpapers, power menu, animated wallpapers, power saving, a one-click full desktop-theming based on the current wallpaper, screen recording, etc...., a well-configured window manager (Qtile) started without any login manager, etc Very light, very fast, very usable, very customizable, no bloat, and the setup is the exact same on Debian, tho with some changes to some configs Other super-lightweight Linux distros (mostly based on already existing ones) don't fit my needs, and I learned the hard way that if I wanted something to fit my needs, I'll need to make it myself Which was easier than I thought...

[@bjronthompson1438]

@@atemoc i was using arch before but idk maybe i have a faulty hdd it failed and so did artix so i guess im just gonna distrohop my entire life

[@Vysair]

@@bjronthompson1438 ah it failed. Such a classic. I never installed distro without errors and ended up wasting hours upon hours mixing weird shit and somehow fucked by grub

[@first-thoughtgiver-of-will2456]

do a coreos distro!

[@RealEngineH]

CyberOS review when

[@WilliamMelton617]

I do believe zsh is pronounced "zish"... or have I been wrong all along? I need dev friends.