Top Five Reasons To Run Arch Linux

I give you my top five reasons to run Arch Linux, which is a free and open GNU/Linux operating system.
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[@mix3k818]

6. So you can proudly say "I use Arch, BTW".

[@DistroTube]

That should be number one!

[@in42u]

What does "BTW" mean?

[@kruxdt6307]

@@in42u by the way -*I USE ARCH BTW*

[@salatwurzel-4388]

yeah, i really love arch, but the users are like hardcore vegans, they always need to tell you how awesome they are because they use arch linux xD

[@realGBx64]

I really like this meme. I've never used Linux before unfortunately. So how much time should I anticipate from becoming a Windows user to an Arch user, and what should be the optimal path?

[@toploz_jr5597]

POV: you are watching a video to kill the guilt of spending 10 hours installing a distro that you only choose because the logo was cool.

[@gopig2403]

very much underrated

[@victorgarciarocha4977]

You guys only spent 10 hours?

[@sanjacobs6261]

I hate how much I relate to this. That was my original reason for going to Arch many a'years ago. I wanted my neofetch to look cooler.

[@ltex3424]

i spent 5 but yea

[@devashreemosamkar109]

I spent like half hour to install arch its not that hard.

[@RetroZero64]

Number 1: so you can stare at the Arch logo with screenfetch

[@atom9885]

neofetch >>>

[@kunt230]

Pfetch

[@somilmishra9192]

@@xXJse18Xx that's illegal

[@ofcrgry]

archey3

[@victorsarkisov4480]

@bulletfreak That’s like putting a brand name logo on an off brand product.

[@AaronTechnic]

"No services running in the background you don't know about." Me with my Arch Installation with KDE: *uhh....*

[@AaronTechnic]

@Nicolás Agustín yeah :)

[@harishk5007]

Lmao, bitten by Baloo once, twice and many more times.

[@AaronTechnic]

@@harishk5007 Baloo is the culprit >:(

[@Zephyroths]

@@harishk5007 for real. the first thing I did after installing a distro with KDE is disabling baloo

[@Zephyroths]

@Prince Cooper it's disabled by default now? nice

[@GabrielTobing]

I'll be honest, the name and cool logo of Arch got me into it XD

[@harambe2185]

XDDDDD

[@augustin64]

Same 😂

[@emptybottle1200]

same XD

[@HapsoroRenaldy]

me too.

[@Klassenfeind]

reason 6: so you can tell everyone about it

[@DistroTube]

Btw....

[@santiagolerin]

It's literally like using vim XD

[@ilahazs]

and that "everyone" is windows user, they're doesn't know what it is arch.

[@tarrorist]

Btw I use arch

[@IndellableHatesHandles]

Truth.

[@MrSushant3]

I installed Arch staying awake one whole night, I bricked the laptop the next morning.

[@ricardoricardo3232]

xD

[@lcssbr]

Next time remember to make a full disk backup.

[@Tamramsy]

Lucas Silva yeah always have a boot disk or a boot USB

[@blairdonnachie2092]

Start by setting up a vm

[@johnc3403]

yeah, I'm an alcoholic that does dumb shit too...

[@dmknght8946]

I am using Debian but 30 - 40 % of my problems have solved on Arch wiki / forum LoL

[@DistroTube]

The Arch Wiki and the Gentoo Wiki are my go-to sources for support...doesn't matter what distro I'm running.

[@dmknght8946]

I always add "ubuntu" keyword for installing / troubleshooting system problem :D

[@GameFreak7744]

Unsurprising, really, given that the userbase of this kind of distro is certainly gonna be a lot more tech savy than of a lot of other distros. I mean to a lot of users of something like Ubuntu or w/e the system is probably just as much a black box as Windows is to its users, whereas Arch and Gentoo users have to know at least _something_ about how it all fits together. =P

[@jmullentech]

@@Tux-YT Dude, preach!! My primary machines run Debian/CentOS and while there's some parallels between them, a lot of the Ubuntu info just straight up doesn't work on either distro. Started adding -ubuntu to my searches a few months ago to avoid the headache too.

[@hb9145]

Same here! :)

[@MarkLeonTanner]

I'm so thankful for Ubuntu... It was my introduction to Linux... I experimented with alternative window managers... I broke installs and reinstalled... Then I took the plunge into arch... Yes there was hair pulling and frustration... But I soon realized that all the instructions and answers are right there... And the software... Wow... The arch Linux community is the best... Archer for life here...

[@BruceCarbonLakeriver]

same, back in the days my IT class at the University "recommended" Linux for the whole projects. So I started with Ubuntu. used it for several years until Canonical started with silly upgrades who almost bricked my PC everytime. So I looked for an alternative and found Gentoo :D - still on Gentoo btw

[@sidotre3033]

Why... Do... You... Write... your... comments... like... this...

[@Nick-lx4fo]

@@sidotre3033 To... Make it... More................ Interesting....

[@ZverseZ]

@@Nick-lx4fo he.......................... Ll........................................................... ............................................................... ............................................... ....................o

[@Zultzify]

Also started on ubuntu before moving to arch, been well over a year of it being my pcs only os

[@survivorofthefire]

I switched to Arch about a month ago. It stopped my distrohopping.

[@1pcfred]

For a whole month? Wow. I've run the same install on a PC for 8 years. Then the PSU in that PC blew up and that was that. Well, I did take the HDD out and put it into a pile of crap that I threw together and it did boot up. But it ran really funny. It was time for a new PC at that point.

[@PizzaLovingNerd]

Same, except for around 2 months

[@BlueChixk]

I used arch for few year and now i switch to gentoo lol

[@benstechroom]

Same here. I been using Arch since 2015. I hopped between Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Mint, you name it. I learned to install Arch because it has all the apps I was looking for easily available. I thought it would be a pain to maintain, and it was a pain to learn how to install the first time. But never in a million years was I expecting to land on Arch as my daily driver. I stopped my distro hopping as well when I got to know Arch. I might hop to Mnanjaro from time to time. But thats Arch based so...

[@mario_9431]

Same

[@whogoeshere]

I do love Arch and run it on most of my machines. It was the first distro that felt like home ( Solus is second in my opinion, the repos have been improving constantly..) but nothing beats the vanilla Arch experience "I built this, this is mine" kind of feel.

[@whogoeshere]

Very true, I just don't have the patience for LFS or even Gentoo

[@robertcoyle9071]

Play with Alpine Linux some time. Its real bare bones too. Theres a lot of post install work to do to get it usable.

[@fosstera]

"It was the first distro that felt like home" This. This exactly. Manjaro is so close, but not quite (in my opinion anyway) When I landed on the desktop for the first time after setting everything up, it was just like I'd walked through the door to a home I've known a long time, and i felt relaxed almost immediately.

[@AustinAwsome]

It's funny since even though I've been using Arch as my main OS for a few months I've had the opposite feeling when building my Arch installation. I love Arch don't get me wrong but there is something "risky" (for the lack of a better word) in manually setting up my OS compared to an installer like Manjaro. Since with those I can have peace and mind that people have tested and used their installer so it'll probably work and have all the basics I need. While when I installed Arch I wasn't sure if I was messing up something in the back, or I forgot to install something important. Since even though I was using the Wiki it was overwhelming. My Arch works but I had to reinstall it like 3 times since I kept messing up one or two steps (especially when setting up a bootloader since Grub doesn't play nice with my PC, and ended up using Refind) so it always feels like my install is broken in *someway* even if it's not.

[@Wahaller]

I enjoy that level of control Arch gives the user, and also how generally reliable the distro has been for me. I would love to get into Gentoo but stuff just takes so long to compile and there's way more seemingly random breakages that I try to debug and fix, but cannot find any solutions for online. Arch, on the other hand, I can find solutions to pretty much every hiccup very easily.

[@mrhunterf2869]

I use Arch btw. If you have too much time on your hands run Arch Linux. If you don't want to actually use your computer run Arch Linux. If you want your computer to break after most updates and then stay up all night fixing your computer run Arch Linux. Great video by the way. PS I'm a vegan

[@mrhunterf2869]

Draško Perović :)

[@cbremer83]

I still consider myself a pretty noobish Linux user despite using it as my daily for about three years. Arch for two of them. Despite that i have had very few issues. None system breaking. Pretty sure your issue is behind the keyboard.

[@houghwhite411]

That last bit is random

[@ramenchariotdeluxe3962]

What has being vegan have to do with arch?

[@djrivington9084]

I'm no longer vegan but I still use arch (btw)

[@danielsantiagosilvacapera6970]

I love how he give thanks for every single sponsor.

[@sixfr0nt]

Antergos is an ancient Galician word meaning 'I don't know how to install Arch.'

[@cameronbosch1213]

Antergos is now a inactive distro. EndeavourOS is the spiritual successor.

[@SeaWasp]

I love the idea of Arch. The no bullshit approach to things that are running, and coupled with a minimal tiled window manager to save resources for other things is worth my brain hurting. It's got both things that work, and only the things you need, if you can figure it out. Friggin awesome.

[@pseudo9616]

I get rock solid seeing only 920mb of memory usage, and only needing a mouse for applications that require it. I am safe from women

[@EdiSantosoIdeas]

I watched ur video about 2 weeks ago .. now I'm on Arch Linux. It's super true ... this is the only linux I need/want ... rolling release is just awesome. I can just build it the way I want. The tedious installation process is really worth it; but once we get used to it .. it's easy. The wiki is just awesome. Thanks Derek for making me a convert. Proud to be an Arch user :)

[@DistroTube]

Great 👍

[@CraigCruden]

You can script the installation process to your computer - so that you have a script to rebuild if needed.

[@robertcoyle9071]

I keep a script on a USB with all my packages to get started. Install>create some user>run the reinstall script for pacman. Everything i care about is on a USB stick.

[@jotix2570]

years of distro hopping... until I install Arch 4 years ago and i stick with it since then.

[@holocaust_2.0]

Glad you finally found your distro. I personally stuck with Debian, and love it myself. Then, after enough working with one distro you eventually come to the realization that trying different distros is ultimately pointless.

[@Thomas-rl8kw]

@@holocaust_2.0 Used linux mint for years. Always tried other distros but always kept mint until installed arch. Now its the main for me. Logged in to mint tonight to update it. lol

[@abandoned7501]

omg, that voice quality is awesome

[@douglas7656]

I've done exactly what you've described, basically just went through it 3 or 4 times in a VM and then moved over to my X230 and it was no problem. Good advice!

[@johnc3403]

The one thing that's rarely mentioned is update size. My Arch install is fairly conservative. I have a small and basic set of installed packages. My update size is around 300Mb once a week. That's over 1.2GB every month. Now, for my 1.2Gb I have a bleeding edge OS and up to the minute installed packages. That's awesome. However, >14Gb of updates a year, it's something some potential users may want to factor in... that aspect is not often mentioned.

[@xyhasanamazingalt9583]

really? most of my updates actuall end up taking up less space than before

[@sketchychillandchill]

Just update like once a month

[@free_person777]

All the same can be said about Gentoo, even more (shown in uppercase): 1. With Gentoo you can COMPILE and build the system yourself. 2. Portage is awesome. 3. Unrivaled software availability. 4. Gentoo manuals, user guides and wiki are incredible resources. 5. Rolling release means no upgrade from version to version. And yes, I sometimes read Arch manuals as they are useful in Gentoo as well.

[@drazpa489]

Gentoo package updates take forever.

[@free_person777]

drazpa: "Gentoo package updates take forever" - If your definition of "forever" is "between 30 minutes and 30 hours", then your are right. :) But it is ok, if you update once a month. And you get an awesome up-to-date GNU/Linux system tailored exactly to your needs and hardware as the result. Moreover, it is computer time needed for unattended compilation. Gentoo system administrator usually spends no more than 10 lasy minutes per system update. Also, you can choose to not update your Gentoo system at all. For example, my Gentoo system that I have not updated for more than a year, keeping it as a fallback option in case something goes wrong with my up-to-date Gentoo system, still works without any problems. Actually, I even can not feel any differences between my out-of-date one-year old Gentoo system and my up-to-date Gentoo system except for in the old one I have used XFCE4 and in the new one I have started to use Awesome WM.

[@GameFreak7744]

Well, Gentoo is a lot more awkward to get set up and keep up to date than Arch is though... Portage, while certainly good at what it needs to do, is kinda a pain in the ass compared to pacman for just managing packages. As a general rule I'm really not sure Gentoo is worth the time & complexity for the benefits it provides. Though I'm sure there are specific circumstances where that level of control over the system is worth it, it just isn't for most people most of the time.

[@free_person777]

Yes, to set up Gentoo, you need time. But it is because with Gentoo you have the freedom to chose everything and it takes time. The result is very rewarding, though. Arch Linux provide much less choice in settig up the system. For example, as far as I know, in Arch Linux you are forced to use systemd, while in Gentoo you can still go with OpenRC but can chose systemd if you want it. I do not say that Arch Linux is bad but it is definitely not for me, and I never cared what "most of people" do. :) And updating Gentoo does not take much of your time. I have already wrote about it above.

[@holocaust_2.0]

I remember my first gentoo install. It failed. The second one, with help from a lovely IRC community rudely pointing me to the manual, and then patiently explaining questions to a 13 year old about the manual, successfully installed. I've run many distros since my gentoo days, and have since been running Debian since Lenny.

[@anatolydyatlov963]

Believe it or not, but I'm running over 9 physical server machines on Arch and some virtualized ones (QEMU with KVM). I know it's not a "server distro", but so far they're running fine and I didn't have any problems with them since 2014. I'm updating them regularly. They run many types of services such as a standard LAMP, Mail (Postfix + Dovecot), Freeradius, Graylog, Zabbix, Node.js and many many more. In fact, the whole company is based on Arch since I got hired (it's a medium-sized ISP). I fell in love with this distro the moment I saw it, and since then it's the only one I use for literally everything.

[@t.parrot3968]

Tomasz Kasperczyk sounds experimental. Are you checking every packet/changelog within a development environment before rolling out updates?

[@anatolydyatlov963]

Not really. I have a 1-to-1 copy of each system stored on my backup server (the copies are updated once a day). If something goes wrong during an update, I can simply revert all changes by restoring the copy. I didn't have to do that yet, though. The only minor problem I've had was when I updated the MongoDB package some time ago. It turned out that the whole database wasn't compatible with the new version anymore. It wasn't hard to fix it, though - I used an older version of mongodump to dump the database to JSON files and then restored it on the new version by running mongorestore.

[@mrmasterofdiabloplay]

@@anatolydyatlov963 Your braver then me, I wouldn't ever put my severs on a rolling release because I wouldn't want to spend the time to figure out which rolling update broke the system (and rolling back on my servers isn't always an option with the type of setup I use), seems how my servers are part of my livelihood. I wouldn't even do a point release, I would have to go LTS on a server because I need to be that stable (I run vanilla Debian on my servers). But I tip my hat to you on that one though, because your the first I've ever seen do this.

[@totallyincognito23]

Timestamps: Intro - 0:00 Reason #1 - 0:23 Reason #2 - 1:38 Reason #3 - 3:27 Reason #4 - 4:22 Reason #5 - 6:08 A quick recap - 7:47 Want an easy way into Arch? - 8:01 Who is Arch for? - 11:55 Credits/Outro - 12:20

[@search_history]

or just use archinstall wen instaling

[@koodeau]

Pacman is a masterpiece, I'm enjoying all arch stuff on my gnome manjaro. It's amazing

[@Thomas-rl8kw]

I used to be crazy about apt until i installed arch. Love pacman.

[@Kapplerartbloomingdale]

Being a computer enthusiast for 30 years - the only problem I get with arch is deciding what to place as extra software packages. Beautiful speed and programing.

[@pemakhoff]

pacman - less to type but more to just remember. 'update', 'upgrade' and so on are easy to remember commands. After several months on Manjaro, miss aptitude a little bit still.

[@Firecul]

I'm right there with you, quick tip in terminal you can Ctrl+R and get a command history search. Comes in really handy if you remember some of the command but not all of it.

[@bufftankington7349]

I came back to Linux about a month ago, installed Arch without the zen installer for the first time, it was actually easier than I thought it would be. I take a simple approach before updating, read the bugreports (if there are any), check the homepage if I need to do something on a certain pacakge after updating, and I read the install outputs to see if manual intervention is required and so far, flawless expierence

[@didackos]

1. Like debian. 2. apt is awesome. 3. Convenient but you can always compile. 4. debian reference manual is a great document plus tons of docs online. 5. Turn debian stable into a rolling release by changing to the sid repositories and you're done. (Although debian group does not recommend running debian this way). I've been using debian since debian 2.1. although I've tried some other distros since 1998, but thinking of switching to arch due to the rolling release idea. Since it is posible to do the same with debian, I'll probably need better reasons.

[@wisnoskij]

"5 reasons to run arch" "bookmark the manual" "practice installing in vm" This watches more like a "100 reasons not to run Arch"

[@robertcoyle9071]

I installed it 3x in virtual in a day once. I can almost do it without the installation guide anymore. Each crash and burn teaches you something. Finally got it working once only to find out that network utilities aren't included like they were 7 years ago when I installed it so I got a brand new kernel and cant use pacman 😄

[@prodxwoah]

@@robertcoyle9071 I can install it without a manual, my only problem is the grub install

[@robertcoyle9071]

@@prodxwoah grub for a UEFI can be tricky. Flag the fat32 UEFI partition or it will fail. I find it a lot easier to create them with gparted live rather than fdisk. Boot the iso, set the ntp to true and mount them up.

[@raiguard]

I installed Arch manually once just to have the experience. But for my actual install, I just used Arch Linux gui. It installs vanilla Arch, but gives you a GUI to do so. Took less than 2 minutes to do it. Highly recommend.

[@electric6972]

Maybe when I'm a little more experienced, I'm fine using Manjaro right now

[@DistroTube]

If Manjaro is working for you, stick with it. Use what works for you!

[@katech6020]

I used to use Arch but it is very unstable on my laptop so I switched to manjaro and it is very amazing

[@kdemetter]

​@@katech6020 Manjaro is based on Arch, so you get some of the advantages mentioned here as well.

[@katech6020]

@@kdemetter that's why I switched to it. because I like the rolling release of arch and the AUR. but arch is unstable on my laptop. Manjaro do more testing before implementing latest changes

[@MultiCappie]

Yeah, Manjaro for the last 3 years now. Mandrake from 2003-10; and then about 15 different distros until 2017; but zero reason to move on from Manjaro since then.

[@SimilakChild]

My first experience with Arch was with ArchLabs and since then i've never touched a .deb based distro ever again! Right now I am running plain Arch with Deepin and its very fast and stable and much easy to use compared to .deb based distros. though some people wouldn't agree. having access to AUR is far easier and better than individually adding untrusted ppa's.

[@nikhilt3755]

how to add ppa to arch? i am new to linux i mean there r some repos only for ubuntu redhat etc or we should compile from source?

[@robertcoyle9071]

I use an unpassworded account as owner on AUR packages and use another admin account to build them and manually assign permissions. Sure AUR packages are safe but you never know. I built mine to be as unfriendly to unauthorized users as possible. No DM and the default environment is i3wm and it isn't going to do a damn thing unless you know my keybindings.i also have to manually connect it in root before you can access an interface. No ip address no internet.

[@charlie_momento]

@@nikhilt3755 There are no PPAs. If the repos don't have the package, it should be in the AUR. If there isn't a package in the AUR, you can use debtap to install the DEB file.

[@search_history]

@@nikhilt3755 well brother idk me to i use nobara

[@SoulSukkur]

as far as #2 goes with less typing, I have a couple of counters: readability goes a long way. For early users especially, we'd largely be typing out those flags with no connection to what they mean. "update" and "upgrade" are easy concepts to wrap your head around, so you know what everything actually means. This also makes the difference in keystrokes less significant. I can put the next word I'm about to type in sort of a mental buffer, so I can string together sentences at a fairly reasonable pace, but that pace comes to a halt when I need to think through an arbitrary sequence of letters, until they're fully ingrained into muscle memory. I certainly wouldn't mind if apt added a combined update/upgrade command, but that'd be the extent of my complaint.

[@alix8647]

I couldn't agree more

[@search_history]

@@alix8647 yes brother or sister

[@manners7483]

Isn't bash and alias the solution to repetitive commands? Gotta make up for time lost troubleshooting somewhere lol.

[@SoulSukkur]

@@manners7483 I'm familiar with aliases, but I don't think I'd heard of them back when I'd made this comment.

[@rwithikmanoj5816]

Me, who installed arch because I like the logo: Hmm...

[@BiminKoju]

same xD

[@Casjay]

I use the Arch Wiki to solve problems I might have with other distros as well.

[@TJWolf]

I love arch Linux. I use other distros also. While I was on arch and using it I would have to say i3 is my favorite.

[@DistroTube]

If you tell people you use Arch, there is no need to also tell them you use i3. It's just understood. :D

[@TJWolf]

why not. i'm lost lol

[@itsnotallrainbowsandunicor1505]

I tell people I use Arch..........................and that my laptop has a restraining order against me.

[@Luftbubblan]

Lol, i have to disagree doe. Even doe i use i3-gaps atm that has not always been the case. I love Xfce and used that for a long time, over time i started to make it lighter and lighter and came to the point when Xfce didn't really make any sense anymore thus started to use i3 instead. Still rocking Xfce on some other machines.

[@djrivington9084]

Similar experience by a long time xfce fan here. For my latest two arch installs (thinkpad and chromebook) I haven't added any xfce4 packages at all. I've completely fallen in love with the keybinds and feel the lack outside of i3. Plus now that I've gotten scripts and keybinds to replace what remaining applets I was using I can't justify the added weight of the de. On the other hand I just installed a manjaro boot with xfce on a mac mini I'm using as a tv now because I'm planning on configuring it to mostly just need the wireless trackpad to operate from my bed and xfce4 with onboard should be perfect for that

[@naumsei6221]

Oh yeah, the vm, I installed arch on my first try with a youtube guide, Luke. Its not hard...

[@mrmasterofdiabloplay]

It's not hard, a noob may take a look at the command line and be like WTF though. It's intimidating to someone who has never done anything in a CLI. I'm to the point where I don't even have to use a cheat sheet.

[@logangraham2956]

you and i installed arch using the same video i bet :) except i used a laptop and not a vm, and i used a tablet to watch the video.

[@logangraham2956]

@@mrmasterofdiabloplay idk , i was a noob at one point but maybe im just crazy. terminal in linux isn't too different from cmd in windows just different commands and / instead of \

[@neonblood4658]

@@logangraham2956 which video was it

[@ezio934]

@@neonblood4658 Luke Smith's

[@nikos7088]

This video was very helpful, thanks. (I'm very linux noob). Also the reasons why NOT to use Arch in ArchWiki are very helpful too to figure out is it time to go deeper to linux stuff.

[@DistroTube]

Thanks, Niko!

[@Milena-ix5mq]

I love it how you've put in an effort and made a whole presentation 😊

[@vali69]

I was planning on installing ubuntu or kubuntu on the laptop im going to buy this summer for collage... but that "you build the system yourself" made me change my mind... arch seems spicy, will install it

[@benstechroom]

A good reason why I run Arch is because every time I went to a forum to get help on a certain issue, I find that some one had already asked the question. The first thing they respond with is "Make sure you have the latest version installed". But if the latest version is not in the repos, then I gotta hunt for it, possibly on git hub or something, and I don't like installing stuff outside the range of my package manager. I get hit with bugs, I guess more frequently than others. But I also get them fixed quicker than others. If there is a static version of an app on a system, and that version has a bug, then unless you do something like build the newer version yourself or something, your stuck with that bug until the next upgrade. I also like that I can roll back a package fairly easy in Arch if there is a nasty bug that I cannot fix. I like everything seamless like that. Arch comes the closest to that with only 2 pacman and yaourt. I have one Arch system with Plasma 5, and the other with Gnome. So I can learn both on a system I am comfortable with. I would contend that Arch is a pain to learn how to install, that is literally it. After that it is the easiest to upgrade, the easiest to find new software for. I wouldn't recommend it to a new or average user. But if some one is trying to learn Linux, I would say at least attempt an installation. And if you can of Gentoo as well. Even if you decide not to run them, the knowledge a person gains from just going through the steps of getting a working system is incredible. But that is just my opinion.

[@BlueChixk]

Benjamin Eldridge but time to install bunch of app on gentoo take so long. :(((

[@GameFreak7744]

You should probably seriously reconsidering using yaourt btw...

[@benstechroom]

I have not used yaourt since I found out it has not been maintained for a while. I use trizen and yay now. Aurman was good, but the guy stopped maintaining that too.

[@GameFreak7744]

I've personally just been using a searcher/downloader like yaah, then inspecting the build files and then plain old makepkg. Figure you can't be too careful with the AUR, and more '1-button install' type helpers are too tempting to build without due diligence, at least for me. =P

[@djasynchronous7777]

reason 6 to run rolling, if you find bugs, your helping Linux move forward.

[@watashibr]

Awesome video. I use Arch OS and one more reason that could be: "Highly Customizable". In my OS, I like to use Arch as the back end for updates and upgrades, together with currently Gnome 40 @Wayland that provides the gestures and hardware configurations of my OS and a front end Custom Firefox that act as a "Full Cloud Desktop", all software that I use are provided by Firefox, so a 16gb storage device can run it nice, mine is a 120gb sata ssd, it will last forever. To complete, the .cache of the OS runs directly on RAM with tmpfs tools. Everything that we can do with Arch can be done with almost Linux distros but with Arch is more practical. Arch OS is my main OS while I stand alive. Awesome video.

[@woke657]

reasons to use arch: 1: you can look cool

[@daniellitvak661]

1. You build your sytem yourself 00:25 2. Pacman is aweesome 01:38 3. Unrivaled software availability 03:27 4. The arch wiki is an incredible resource 04:21 5. Rolling release means no upgrade from version to version 06:08

[@Mezklador]

One of the best Arch Linux installation distro: Anarchy Linux! The simplest, best, reliable and good looking installation ISO!

[@alkeryn1700]

the best is my install script, because i know exactly what it do and it does exactly what i want it to

[@TGoKovenant]

Arco Linux has the best i3 out of the box. And the dot files are well documented. Best arch installer imo. Been running arch since 2011.

[@kc2bez]

Thanks for the video DT. I'm running Manjaro KDE on my main machine. I recently put openbox on it. It has been a good experience so far. I will work my way into mainline Arch. Might go through the Arco setup for the learning process.

[@orcaflotta7867]

Woah! Are you by any chance The Dan Simmons, friend of Steven King and George R.R. Martin, and bestest writer of that clicque? What a friggin' honour to meet you here, sir.

[@kc2bez]

I wish! No relation. I like his work too.

[@fernandojosei]

Love your reviews!! Thank you !!

[@DistroTube]

Thanks, Fernando!

[@cun_0092]

It actually balances well between stable and bleeding edge. It sounds weird but it's ready to work with. I can enjoy up to date system because my hardwares are new and also enjoy the somewhat stability by picking stuffs which I want. Ah and arch and manjaro wiki are extremely helpful. If I don't understand it there are plenty of videos out there for arch. Which means it's applicable for ever arch based.

[@SyphistPrime]

I'm tempted to go to Arch. I install so much specialized stuff and updates to programs on Ubuntu that's it's worth it to either go Manjaro or Arch. I'll still run Ubuntu on servers though, the stability is really nice, and by the time my 4-5 years are up with the LTS releases I need to reconfigure them anyways.

[@seanld444]

I just switched from Ubuntu 20.04 to Arch on both my work PC and my main PC. Put Awesome WM on it, and I'm quite happy with how it operates. If you like heavy personalization, and no stupid defaults, I recommend just going for it. Totally worth it. But I'd definitely stick to Debian-based for servers for sure. That's what I do still.

[@SyphistPrime]

@@seanld444 I've been on Arch for a while. It's been a bit of a learning curve but I've gotten it. I personally use XFCE and customize the panels and whatnot. Overall it's been much nicer being on a rolling release distro. I feel like the flexibility Arch gives on top of that too is nice, I feel much more in control of my OS and can do things with a low risk of it needing a reinstall because I know how I built it.

[@ricklell8570]

I run Debian Testing on my work machine (ThinkCentre M92) as well as on my primary laptop (ThinkPad T430)... and a few months back, installed Ubuntu MATE 19.04 on my wife's laptop as an introduction to GNU/Linux. I recently bought a refurbished ThinkPad X140e 11.6" Notebook with an AMD A4-5000 1.5GHz processor, upgrading the RAM to 8 gigs.... a carry-along as we frequent the local coffee shops here in downtown Birmingham. I'm having a few problems with this AMD notebook... wifi networking mainly. I tried Debian Buster, then Xubuntu.... the latter seemed to support the hardware a little better, but not to my satisfaction. I came to Linux via CrunchBang in 2012, migrating to Debian after this wonderful Openbox distro went defunct in 2015. I'm now thinking to ease into Arch in the same manner on this notebook... via ArchLabs or ArcoLinux . What's your take on this fork? It seems ArchLabs has split to become a learning center for Arch. Hmmm... Peace, Rick (& Rita... lol) *This will be her intro to Openbox ;) rainbowsolutionsusa.com/

[@djrivington9084]

I got into Arch through Arch Linux ARM because I have an arm chromebook that was my main/sometimes only machine for the past two years. Crouton is cool but a 16 GB SSD runs out fast so I installed alarm to an SD card. One of the best linux decisions I've made as it taught me a lot in such a small window of time. I acquired a Thinkpad x220 recently and I'm running Arch as my main OS. Definitely recommend to anyone with an arm machine. It might seem daunting because it's not as simple as dd'ing an iso but the documentation on the arch arm site is very thorough

[@tostoday]

Top 5 not to use - 1. Sanity 2. Less cursing 3. Sanity...oh never mind. Peace!

[@DistroTube]

Where was "unstable" on your list? :D

[@tostoday]

LOL

[@spud13y]

I think he covered that in points 1 and 3.

[@dan_kelly]

No comment, I'll hold my tongue. lol

[@cbremer83]

Arch has been my daily for about two years now. I have only had a couple odd "things are now broken" moments. Usually they are fixed pretty quick if it's a popular package that is borked. None of the broken issues cause down time. So far at least. That said, I would not use it as a server. I use things based on BSD for that.

[@dadangmahfud4318]

Arch i3 with pf-kernel faster than Lamborghini 😄

[@shekhawat5917]

True

[@bschlueter]

Pf-kernel?

[@MrSHowVIdeo]

try bspwm, even faster than i3 and it consumes lower memory.

[@BlueChixk]

Is that better than awesome wm? I never try it

[@HarmonicaMustang]

Thang Cao i3 is an amazing solution for single-screen computers (especially laptops). I know i3 was (historically) built specifically to satisfy poor multi-monitor support on most operating systems, but it is a screamer when it comes to a single monitor as well. It's similar to awesome but it feels snappier and 'vaster'. As always, you have 10 desktop windows you can flick between in a snap, navigation and reorganisation of windows is fast and intuitive, and its a real pleasure to work with majority of the time. Yes, I like to keep KDE wm as backup in case I need to do something that would be quicker/easier to do with a GUI, but I still highly recommend it.

[@kboutdoors4599]

I know it might be a cold day in Miami Florida before you read or react to this comment, but here goes... I went from a Debian based Kali (due to classes) directly to Arch. I now find myself solely relying on Arch, even for my class and course work. I'm studying for an IT job as a Certified Ethical Hacker btw... I can pull my tools from Black Arch when I have to, but I have no need of a full time system that isn't basic Arch. I still have Kali on my other machine, but honestly the last time I used it was when there was a new version out and I had to upgrade to it...

[@tobias-arturnegrui7330]

Manjaro i3 (community edition). Works everything out of the box (bluetooth, wifi, brightness and volume controls). Still get the benefit of AUR and Arch Wiki

[@generallyunimportant]

manjaro isn't arch, my guy.

[@LusidDreaming]

I agree with everything presented. However, I just have to say, the point about pacman involving less typing reminds me of every time I had a bare PowerPoint slide and needed to come up with just one more point, no matter what it was.

[@galerinha]

To be fair the biggest difference btwn distros is the package manager. Like gentoo, you have to compile everything from source, where this differece manifests? Portage.

[@umurkaragoz]

This is commitment! You could see that he is true to what he is telling. You could see he himself running on ArchLinux, and he installed minimum amount of speech and facial expressions. He seems to know what exactly running through his mind at every second.

[@Mando0975]

BTW I use arch

[@johnc3403]

BTW I use arch too

[@VittoIB]

Installed Arch the original way a few times on a desktop and laptop. Got things running pretty well. Since then, I've installed using the Zen Installer, which doesn't install extra packages and everything is updated to current. It certainly cuts time.

[@WizardNumberNext]

I installed rawly around 100 Operating Systems in last 3 months (I have just 3 desktops and 2 laptops). all of them on Virtual Machines regardless, if it was going to be used on Bare Metal or Bare Plastic (laptop) or Bare PCB (TestBed) or Virtual Machine. ps Desktop 1 is actually used as server and it is used as VMM mostly using Xen 4.9.1 Desktop 2 is my (used to be) daily driver desktop Desktop 3 is TestBed and it is not in case, as this is not needed, it is used to test PCIe cards, sometimes up to 200-400 cards a day Laptop 1 is my current daily driver Laptop 2 is used by my lady

[@kaojaicam]

As much as I envy the customization of Arch, Nvidia makes me feel like I'm running an unstable distro even on my bog-standard Ubuntu and Debian systems 😆 Even as an intermediate skilled user I don't know if I can handle the unpredictability of a mere Nvidia driver update bricking my system. I still might try Arch at some point, but it will be a long time before I try it on a production-ready machine

[@EbenezerJesuraj]

Such an amazing channel, very informative on Linux and Arch Linux..

[@keletsorabalao7454]

I like that 1st Steven is "Steven A" and 2nd Steven is "Steven B". Also I want to thank you for basically introducing me to Arch. I am currently running Manjaro and I'm now gonna start poking around the mainline installation.

[@DistroTube]

Thanks, Keletso.

[@Thomas-rl8kw]

Once you get it installed and working the way you ant, youll love it.

[@SoundCubed]

Rest in peace antergos, you will be missed (unless the project will be picked up by someone else)

[@wheelsonfire1982]

Would you say that Manjaro is its replacement now?

[@SoundCubed]

@@wheelsonfire1982 No, it actually was picked up, Endeavor os. ive used it and omg its so good

[@1000Leoquiroga]

Manjaro KDE here. 10/10

[@DistroTube]

Not a bad distro...if you like KDE.

[@michadybczak4862]

Same, Plasma rocks.

[@meowmeowmeow8593]

manjaro xfce here......no problem at all athough i twerk all system in terminal for my own curiosity.....lol

[@EnnTomi1]

Same here, first day on Linux haha

[@PankajSharma-ir7fb]

Same here. On dual boot with Windows 10. Very seldom do I need to open windows. Battery life is amazing in comparison... Great distro, great DE.

[@rezamochamaddiannagara9756]

Is using Arch for a few years now... And never willing to move to any distros... Love Arch.

[@jimbo3947]

I found Linux back in 2012, and used it on and off since 2015. When I started programming is when I made the switch, because Linux is just much easier to work on.

[@theacorn7240]

pacman -Syu is the same number of characters as dnf upgrade, but due to a capital letter and hyphen is more difficult to type. The length of pacman outweighs the efficiency of the commands themselves, at least when compared with dnf. You can also tab out for other package manager’s commands, which you can’t for pacman since they don’t form real words.

[@KebunH]

You could also create an alias if typing less is important to you, i.e. pc instead of pacman, and pcu for pacman -Syu

[@yusufirwandi6807]

I learn more Linux stuff running arch because I configured many things myself by reading it's awesome wiki. On other 'easier' distro I'll just take for granted for everything preconfigured and don't know shit when something went error .

[@softwaresolutions3111]

Anyone using arch? Please help! File sharing via bluetooth is not working in my Arch machine. Other services like Bluetooth headphone, and internet access via bluetooth tethering are working fine. But when it comes to sharing file via bluetooth is just doesn't work. . Please give your valuable suggestion. What are the essential packages required for file sharing via bluetooth in Arch Linux? I can provide any additional information if needed. Thanks you

[@Yoslizzle]

I run arcolinux via the arcolinuxb iso. I love always having the latest software and not having to wipe my drive every year or so for point based release upgrades. Nice video DT

[@mikulcek]

I would love to know who formats hard drive to upgrade Ubuntu 🤔 Rolling releases must play a major role in Arch distro, because rolling releases are undermining its top idea, to run only what you want to run. How do you do that if you are constantly upgrading? In my book, I wish to run certain system component not only by type and name but by version number too. I think Arch has its place and strengths, but let's not downplay other distro strengths just to minimise Arch distro weakness.

[@bbdgl7413]

6. Arch multilib support is way beyond every distro out there (remember breaking debian based systems with installing skype, steam or 32bit?)

[@tubelarasa]

Yay! Make reason no. 4 reason no. 2. The Arch wiki is unsurpassed, no more searching and browsing 3 billion pages with 3 billion different "solutions" (that rarely seem to be a solution). Reason 6: you get more insight in how your system works.

[@MrTimdesires]

First time installing Arch Linux a went all in, didn't practice in a VM, but the wiki back then had a "Beginners tutorial" or likewise. It took a day :D

[@georgeparkins777]

Yeah there's still a tutorial but it breezes over some vital steps and really assumes you have a UEFI machine. You have to read a separate tutorial on how to configure your bootloader if you have a somewhat older computer such as these i3's I have.

[@WizardNumberNext]

I definitely agree with arch wiki 1. most of my searches will spit out arch wiki and I search ONLY advanced things 2. arch wiki usually have a lot information there and quite often there is more then at project itself (Linux KVM, PCIe Pass-through and others)

[@d1sc1ple]

Love Arch.Always end up back in Arch. Probably won't be posting on KZbin much. Deleting Google for good in a bit.

[@OsmosisHD]

I've tried a lot of Distro's Arch linux and Parrot OS are my fav till now

[@meh5812]

is arch better at hacking than parrot?

[@therock9507]

@@meh5812 for hacking there is Black Arch

[@meh5812]

@@therock9507 hmmmm intresting i wonder do you recommend arch linux for gaming? and running exes i want arch but i am not sure though if its worth it

[@CenuPwny]

i'm considering arch right now, and the irony is, the arch wiki has been incredibly helpful to me since the first year i ran freebsd, and continues to be helpful now that i run debian, even if you don't use arch, the arch wiki is indispensable. and i'm starting to consider arch, because though debian sid has been giving me success, last week the apt package manager erased a bunch of multimedia codecs that i really wanted, apropos of nothing and it took a lot of time to recover them and set them as manually installed. i also want to be sure of hardware, but the rolling release model is something i personally need, which is why i am even running debian sid, so yea, that puts arch very high on the list of considerations

[@Jerrel.A]

Thank you. Saved me a ton of time.

[@FrostByte112]

Arch update bricked my system earlier this year. Not acceptable on a monday-morning. I almost lost a customer because "woops, sorry, my laptop is broken" Installed ubuntu in 10 minutes just to get going. I didn't have time and mental energy to go through an arch-install.

[@manuelplavsic9973]

Same happened to me twice (one time was completely my fault), but i easily solved the issue by flashing the arch ISO on a USB drive, mounting all exiting file systems, entering "arch-chroot /mnt" and then reinstalling all packages (I don't remeber the command, but you can google it).

[@FrostByte112]

c6amp yup, lesson learned

[@savanah00090]

Manjaro also has the ability to build it yourself with the manjaro architect installer

[@peartkishi]

Arch was the very first Linux distro I've ever installed. I've tried others but Arch is all I know.

[@generallyunimportant]

i tried debian, mint, ubuntu, used manjaro for a while, hopped to pop... then ultimately switched to arch lol

[@MarkHobbes]

I'm actually using Manjaro Cinnamon. No distro hopping for a long time.

[@beardedgeek973]

I went to Manjaro a few days ago (gnome). It feels like a good compromise (in a good way) and the update schedule isn't annoying.

[@mrhunterf2869]

Lèmmark until the next update

[@julianojosoa2197]

You're right Mr Hunterf. I used manjaro since february until april and i was happy with my system but it crashed after an update so i reinstalled another system and i chose arch and installed Timeshift within it. And now the my system has crashed the gdm one time but i fixed it up with Timeshift so... No distro hoping for me now! Arch is fine!!!

[@mrhunterf2869]

Juliano Joshwartz that's awesome I love Time Shift I use Linux Mint 18.3 cinnamon and I finally setup time shift to a external backup hard drive in the likelihood of actually having a crash where I can't boot or fix it I can restore instantly Linux Mint is very stable though I can imagine Time Shift being a great assistance with arch I would use arch with timeshift set up.

[@MarkHobbes]

I've been using Manjaro for a long time (I was searching for something different), there is no problems that I'm not used to fix. I've tried Ubuntu, Mint, elementaryOS and I've have had more problems with them than Manjaro, even Manjaro being a RR. That's why I decided to run Manjaro as my daily driver distro. I don't want to change anymore - I tried to change Manjaro something else and it was the worst decision ever made. I was distrohopping to much and it isn't good for my HDD.

[@StannyObelisk]

Thanks, you have convinced me to use arch BTW.

[@Xanatos0504]

Antergos is basically an arch gui installer, yes the installer can crap out on you, ( if you rush the installer, rather than wait for the installer to update itself ) but once installed, it's basically mainline arch. Manjaro has a lot of it's own repos and they hold back updates, unlike mainline Arch.

[@andrebroadcaster7898]

I use Arch Linux on my Lenovo Thinkpad X220 since 2019, using pacman package manager seems to work every time! No dependency errors or other things, I love Arch Linux but my advice to anyone who is starting with Linux is to stick with Debian, much more simplier

[@nannd136]

Can you make a new updated tutorial on how to install it? Thanks :D

[@user-gi2mn5yf5j]

Read The FINE Manual and you will go far, I know I did.

[@carpii]

with a rolling release, what happens if you want to use an earlier version of a package for whatever reason? Does pacman let you do this, or you can only pull the latest?

[@xWe2s]

Absolutely. I'm absolutely stucked here :D I can't move to another thing, so... i'm here in the last 5 years :D I even don't change my i3 setup regularly, i'm with the same config from 2-3 years. AUR is fucking enormous and that's the reason ArchLinux is in that state and awesomeness. And the ArchLinux community as a whole is freakin phenomenal. You can find things even for other linux distros.

[@MurtezaY]

My favorite GUI for Pacman is web browser. Fun fact: I visit Arch wiki even though I run Ubuntu

[@MRL8770]

Arch wiki is great for all distros! There's so much information there. I'm running gentoo and whenever I run into a problem I'm not sure how to fix or just want to find some info, arch wiki is often the place where I end up!

[@AaronTechnic]

I used the Arch Wiki when I needed to make Qt apps look consistent.

[@zanaris-falador]

I had a killer arch setup with i3 gaps and a customized dmenu and the glibc error back in April bricked my system. After that, went to debian. Was soooo frustrating. Currently running clean on debian with no issues whatsoever.

[@Luftbubblan]

Been there done that haha. I have a healthy mix of Debian and Arch on my machines. Love both. I find Debian very very good, just missing some programs at times doe. If that wasn't the problem id probably use Debian on my daily.

[@holocaust_2.0]

A Debian minimal install is glorious.

[@moffrow543]

This actually convinced me to try linux, arch in particular. I'll update you once I'm done with it.

[@g.o.9513]

Please share an update.

[@moffrow543]

@@g.o.9513 the tutorial i watched was pretty bad, so i had to restart like 6 times, but i found another one and i got it down and, well, its good. I want my desktop to look insane tho so ill be back once i try ennvironments and i3 amd such

[@generallyunimportant]

@@moffrow543 so how have you been so far? i myself use fluxbox, but thinking about switching to awesome.

[@yamirc8899]

Currently running Manjaro on my NUC and it's great!

[@user-zd9fc4vs4q]

Arch is nice though I personally use Windows 10 & Ubuntu.

[@youtubesurfer586]

1ª Step: Be bald and grow a beard (just kidding. No really: be bald and "furry") 2º step: Install Arch Linux 3º Step: Go to 1º Step

[@AStrangerOnTheInternet]

Well, I've completed steps 1 and 2 easily.

[@Lars-ce4rd]

I only completed step 2 and then step 3 started

[@johnc3403]

I seriously think Step 1 should be Be Bald and Grow Beard. This is GNU/Linux after all.

[@robertcortez1109]

I love manjaro I have about 10 years using it keeps getting better for me

[@muratatici2469]

Arch Linux can be installed using graphical installer tools like the ones I have known in recent years. Most of what I know is Feliz, Zen Revenge Graphical Installer for Arch Linux.Arch based distributions Manjaro linux has recorded great developments and has risen to 1st place in distro watch site. I've seen the video and agree fully Arch Linux has a lot of features that distinguish it from other distributions, it's really hard to make it private and mysterious. :) So far, I like Arch-based distributions. 1.Manjaro 2.Antergos 3.SwagArch Zen Revenge Installer for Arch linux installation with graphical tools. Thanks a lot for the video informants! | I follow the DistroTube liking track. :)

[@DistroTube]

Thanks, Murat.

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic1636]

Arch is the easiest to rice. However, it is a non free operating system. So instead I recommend parabola GNU+Linux

[@eahere]

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