How do THESE guys use Linux? - Linux for Newbs EP 0

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This video is sponsored by eraser.io!
If you've ever watched tech influencers, you may have noticed something unusual. A small subset of them use a very similar configuration using linux, a tiling wiindow manager -- like i3wm, neovim, and tmux. This is the start of a new series where we install linux from scratch, and configure a tiling window manager, a cool status bar, and way more goodies!
So stick around nerds, its going to be a fun one!
Chapters:
0:00 - intro
1:18 - The setup we're going to make together
1:55 - The linux distribution
4:30 - The tiling window manager in a linux system
8:02 - Showing off i3wm
9:18 - Comparing with Gnome
9:44 - LETSGO

[@typecraft_dev]

Hey Everyone! I misspoke and called Gnome/KDE Display "Managers" When really I meant "Desktop Environments". I'll be sure to clarify in the next video when we install arch and choose a Desktop Environment / Window manager. Thanks!

[@rharmonson]

On mixing up "Display Managers" and "Desktop Environments", it happens to the best of us. Good call out that the Linux OS is not a dependency for improving your workflow. Arch is amazing but impractical for larger pools of assets. Not saying it cannot be done using NixOS, Ansible, or some other alternative, but for most, it is not practical beyond a few assets. I accomplish the same with Debian but it does mean I must compile from source outdated components. I miss AUR. Pick your poison scenario, really.

[@abbashaider7165]

I opened the comments section to point that out. Thanks for correcting that. In practice display manager is just a login manager and nothing more. It is among the wrongly named symbols

[@nostalgianinja]

Even then, Desktop Environments contain everything needed for their respective (floating) window managers to operate. And hey, it happens to the best of us.

[@samanthbapu6207]

Happens post a few drinks ...

[@softwarewalaa]

Im waiting for the all the episodes/parts , he is literally the guy who can teach us everything with the ease and simple beginner to advanced level 🥹

[@youdontknowme2508]

My man single handledly creating more nerds in this world lol. Keep them coming you nerdo

[@laskargoaselarong]

Keep the nerds multiplying

[@Jalan-Api]

There are 2 ways of doing that, knowledge and repro. Which do you choose

[@youdontknowme2508]

@@Jalan-Api First one

[@Jalan-Api]

@@youdontknowme2508 XD

[@JoelJosephReji]

Btw a small correction: the Long term support releases didn't really get affected by the xz vulnerability because their xz packages were already pinned at an old version. Ironically enough, Arch and several other bleeding edge rolling release distros had the version with the backdoor distributed for a short period of time before it got patched to the newer safe version (even though the backdoor didn't work on Arch since the ssh distributed via Arch didn't depend on xz).

[@newton-342]

Yes. Altough thankfully only Debian was targeted, thus the exploited versions weren't dangerous on Arch. But if Arch had been targeted, it would have been pretty bad

[@JoelJosephReji]

@@newton-342 yeah but they wouldn't have been able to use the same attack vector on arch. They would have had to attack a different project then

[@paultapping9510]

the xz vuln. got into Debian Sid but not Debian Stable, which really underlines why the Debian dev model is a great idea.

[@SoHawful]

Yeah, that stood out to me too. I love arch, but "latest security patches" also means "latest vulnerability patches". That's the bleed in bleeding edge.

[@jimmyhopkins8305]

​@@SoHawfulhow i wish there's something edging but not bleeding 😢

[@simonlauer9379]

One minor thing: display managers are just the thing you get after booting up prompting you to login. Gnome uses GDM and KDE uses SDDM, by default. Display Managers typically allow you to start different sessions. On GDM for example, you could launch into the Gnome Desktop Environment, or into i3 if installed 🤪

[@typecraft_dev]

UGH I KNEW I would say something wrong. Yes that's correct I'll be sure to fix that in the next video!

[@timdithmer9184]

I love the way people tend to give feedback on your videos and the way you handle it. You can feel the positivity which is not normal in YT comments usually!

[@typecraft_dev]

@@timdithmer9184 I've found YT to be a very positive place (for me at least). I'm just having fun showing off stuff I think is cool!

[@glidersuzuki5572]

Maybe you can call them login managers too. Atleast that's the name I like compared to the confusing display manager terminology​@@typecraft_dev

[@nerdg2]

Hey look🧐, two nerds having a polite conversation, rare but love it!

[@Redyf]

I'm glad to see you're going to cover these topics, many people don't switch to linux because of the initial learning curve. I believe the series will help a lot with that 🙌

[@FastGunner2001]

Pumped for this series. My wife is taking her first steps into the GNU world and is pumped to see the next episode already.

[@ohdarlin692]

arch documentation is really amazing. In the past I used debian and fedora derivatives. If something broke I search tons of forums and read people's problem, comparing them with mine and then fix it somehow. Not the best experience. But with arch I almost exclusively use their simple doc and it solves all of my problems. Also there described comparability with different tools, not only pure arch Linux setup, which is great

[@valerianmp]

Arch Wiki is amazing

[@mazZZzilaplayer]

Can't wait for new episodes coming!

[@drewfowler2408]

Love this! Excited for the coming episodes!

[@LorenzoLopezVillalobos-sl5hn]

You are such a good presenter. I was able to get 99% of what I needed up and running on my Mac with your guidance, keep on making this great content man!

[@eliacortesi2787]

LOVE IT! Is it so bad wanting the next episode like NOW? Keep working nerd, doing GREAT!

[@typecraft_dev]

you're getting me all pumped up I'm going to try and get it out ASAP

[@MohammadLsk]

Thanks man. Excited for next episodes

[@khanriza]

Can't wait for the Arc install guide!

[@ShadowPriestBear]

Just write "archinstall" and follow the instructions xD

[@Dainslief31]

Man , youe neovim series got me hooked nd bkw tbis series too gonna blow up sooner or later 🔥🔥keep it up ! Thabks Nerd !

[@AdamM]

This was great. Looking forward to the series.

[@axelpaillaud7542]

This is really a great idea for a series, we are currently missing that ! I kinda disagree a little bit with your arch point of vue, but anyway, I also use arch btw, and I think its a really good distro to do programming. Thanks Typecraft, can't wait to see the next !

[@willianf]

Awesome video! I am looking forward to watching the entire series. I have a similar env in my macOS with yabai, skhd, neovim, and tmux :)

[@Fanta666]

I switched from i3wm to sway, and am psyched to watch this series and level up my use of these tools!

[@SimonCardona-oi8sm]

When I decided to go with vim I founded your KZbin channel with vim series. Last week I decided to go further and install arch and this series comes. Man.. I love this channel so much, thanks you !

[@typecraft_dev]

Great to hear!

[@mSykeCodes]

Awesome start! I wish I had had something like this when I was starting to play with this style of setup. Had to learn how to configure i3 from scratch myself haha

[@TomokoJinx]

great video very exited for this series as someone who wanted to get into the ricing part of linux for along time

[@typecraft_dev]

Awesome! We’ll definitely be doing some ricing

[@bwemery5]

cant wait to see your i3 configs

[@flightman2870]

Thanks a lot. I was waiting for a complete noob rice tutorial for all this time. I think this is the one. Love

[@alexandersix_]

Man, LOVING the videos lately! I'm running Fedora with AwesomeWM myself, and it's been such a great change. Still running (and loving) macOS for work, but whenever I can dip into Linux, I'd much rather do that.

[@Allysroadtorecovery]

Fantastic video looking forward to future episodes

[@vimrichie]

You’re just like Netflix. Always putting out a new series. The only difference is that you don’t cancel on them.

[@typecraft_dev]

lol

[@Szymonides252]

Nice, I'm really looking forward to seeing your config! Btw, have you ever considered using NixOS instead of Arch?

[@jasonbourne757]

I come here for the intro and stay for the content, everytime..!

[@maxhudotdev]

Nice vid, recently got into linux and this vid would have been super helpful when I was just starting out

[@nerdg2]

Dude, just why didn't you exist earlier man, do you know the shit i went through to get to where this video gets a person ? Dude an year of hell, literal hell to finally call linux home. Your channel is god man!

[@muhammadmostey]

I cant wait I was about to move all my files on Windows to follow with you, it's been 7 days I hope if you can post everyday in this series, I'm really exited and wanted to learn neovim on linux asap

[@typecraft_dev]

apologies for making you wait. been a busy week outside of youtube for me. They'll start coming out quicker and quicker don't worry. thanks for your patience!

[@llljammylll]

Looking foward to this series.

[@shaunkruger]

What a time to be alive, through the advanced technology of tiling window managers we can run multiple full screen applications on individual desktops that in no way resembles the way I used tty1-6 on the console when I first got started with Linux in 1998.

[@ev3rybodygets177]

wezterm when? Love the vids keep up the work!

[@typecraft_dev]

I’m going to have to cover wez term

[@itsfkf6106]

​@typecraft_dev honestly....imo kitty is better

[@zephyrthesearchrescuedog8358]

Yeah teej uses wezterm

[@gustavojoaquin_arch]

​@@itsfkf6106wezterm>>>>>>>kitty Wezterm implements the kitty graphics protocol and is writted in Rust btw

[@007arek]

@@itsfkf6106 with what?

[@TiagoEgas]

a solid .1 intro, nice to se a breakdown type of workflow.

[@mlv60]

i love theseeee!!!! (video series, but influencers mentioned as well)

[@claymorwan]

I've been struggling to install arch linux like that for the past weeks, can't wait to watch the next episode hoping that it helps

[@alanis4AL]

Hey man awesome series this and configuring neovim You make so understandable for people like me 👍

[@dixitvara]

I like this series, so i am excited to know more about linux ❤ thanks

[@_boux]

2:40 funny point right there, since rolling release distros were the ONLY distros affected by the exploit, mostly fedora's rolling release. Stable releases or LTS releases didn't have the version of the library with the exploit yet when it was discovered

[@Mr.AmeliasDad]

I'm already running Arch with Hyprland, Tmux, and Neovim. Just here cause your content rocks!

[@aparuproychowdhury]

Amazing content. I am excited to watch the next one. When is it comming?

[@jonatasmoraes141]

Wow!!! We see that another great playlist is starting. I'm excited about it.

[@Gengurke]

Great start to the series! Where can I get this beautiful wallpaper?

[@abdallhfattah8934]

i been waiting for such a course :)

[@timjames4306]

The mustache man is back with another incredible series ❤🎉

[@pankajthapaliya2336]

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing it

[@dicusardenis922]

I will enjoy this eposodes, this is what i need, keep going :)

[@ghosthunter0950]

I would appreciate if you did a full setup with the manual install of arch as well for educational purposes. The arch wiki doesn't tell me much beyond the basic installation and the same goes for most of the videos beyond really old ones. I don't mind if you even start with an already basic install done and just helped setup what we need after that.

[@CodeWithAhsan]

damn! This is more exciting for me than any Netflix series. Super sad that there’s only one episode available so far 😄 I’ll wait all to come out so I can migrate from windows. I absolutely hate using neovim on WSL (ubuntu). I am new to neovim btw and set up things from your neovim setup course initially. Thanks for the amazing content :) can’t tell how much I appreciate it

[@typecraft_dev]

awesome I'm glad you're excited! I'm excited too!

[@SteeleMan223]

Between you and Teej I've dug myself deep down the nvim rabbit hole

[@SteeleMan223]

@keralistyrus4241 Learn on VS code and then when you are comfortable coding, get the vim motions plugin on VS code to start learning vim, then when you have that down you can get into vim or nvim in the terminal. That's my recommendation.

[@aaronwillett1333]

Tough call. Vim is its own learning curve. You run the risk of slowing growth in both areas trying to learn both at once. I think once you are comfortable with one, the other is easier to learn, which begs the question: which to focus on first?​@keralistyrus4241

[@julius7574]

@keralistyrus4241 what ever you like more

[@MrBodoFraggins]

For those interested, there is an extension for gnome called Forge that is a very good tiling manager.

[@lisovyy]

nicely put. out of curiosity, have you switched to linux long term or is it more of an experiment?

[@ahmedpranto6669]

Subbed and ready for the whole series

[@jawuku3885]

Thanks for this introductory video! I've always been stumped by the workflow of tiling window managers, so have always avoided them in the past. You've convinced me to give it a try at least. I look forward to your upcoming videos.

[@Novacification]

Just as I felt I had gathered enough information to make a Linux "IDE", you come out with a guide. Will be interesting to see how my own rookie thoughts compare and have a guide to follow when things inevitably turn out to be more difficult than expected. You mentioned tmux as well but I'm not sure I would use tmux with a tiling window manager. Maybe I'm wrong on that.

[@alexanderkipnis2329]

this series is going to be a godsend 😎

[@fruitloop831]

Just starting to teach myself to use i3wm, I have it installed alongside plasma and depending on the task I am doing depends which I log into.

[@dylanjhennessy]

Literally got shivers in the intro

[@zdeneksc2895]

Hi, I see that you using that nice terminal bar with all those rainbow colors, I cannot find a video where you're setting that one up? I already have TMUX with Catpuchin but still missing that one piece. Can you help me out? EDIT: Is it a starship? Can I get the setup?

[@KevinVinck]

Curious to see how to get i3wm working with a HiDPI display. All of my Linux machines are laptops with HiDPI displays and when I tried setting up i3 I ended up spending too long trying to figure out how to get both i3 and the applications to scale properly before giving up and going back to KDE.

[@rodelias9378]

Thanks nerd. I look forward to watching next episodes

[@harshdeepanshu277]

much needed series!!! keep going..............

[@alxt111]

Great video. A couple corrections: point release distros also deliver security updates as soon as possible. rolling release is got for if you want the latest and greatest features not more security. You often say display manager when meaning desktop environment. A display manager is just the lock screen in linux lingo.

[@typecraft_dev]

Yes I totally misspoke you’re right thanks!!

[@jntlmb]

Amazing, love the content!

[@friendly__drone9352]

Interesting! If I wasn't working on a fairly new macbook then I'd look at getting a laptop with Linux. which machine do you use Typecraft?

[@isyedaliraza]

Awesome as always ❤️

[@ZenityStudios]

im ready for part 1, 2, 3, etc. thanks

[@chyldstudios]

I use Arch with KDE, zsh, tmux, neovim and vs code. Virtual desktops on KDE work very well.

[@itsfkf6106]

vs code? >:o

[@loggerboy9325]

Ur content is gold keep up the content!!!

[@SaffronPaprika]

At it again with another awesome course.

[@Mooooov0815]

At this point, I am convinced that if you really want a stable and productive setup, just use the Fedora sway spin.

[@taatzi5554]

Interested to see this series, hope many find it useful and intriguing. I used to run i3 on arch btw, but lately I haven't bothered with all the configuring. I find that Gnome is quite ok if you utilize keyboard shortcuts like Win+Arrow keys to split and move windows effectively. It doesn't give the same granular control or speed but gets the job done. Then again I've also moved that responsibility to tmux, where I instantly jump between running processes, neovim editors and shells, which leads me to only need one workspace. Really the trouble with a tiling wm is the same as the trouble of neovim vs. IDEs. It doesn't come with anything but the bare essentials preinstalled, and expects you to do the heavy lifting in the beginning. But after it's configured to your liking everything's exactly where you want it to be and you fly between screens and applications like it's second nature.

[@alexcricles]

RIP neofetch

[@Ar1yan824]

Now welcome to the fastfetch

[@Ar1yan824]

Now welcome to the fastfetch

[@Ar1yan824]

Now welcome to the fastfetch

[@d_sanu]

>screenfetch

[@d_sanu]

​Stop @@Ar1yan824

[@mrmadhan8557]

For gnome users you can use spacebar gnome extention for i3 like workspace

[@macmanuelodumeru3708]

What about for Windows. Lol

[@MrBrutalmetalhead]

I'm a happy pop os guy . cant wait to see the rest of this series

[@TrashUx12]

You are the best youtuber ever i seen please make more and more content you are awesome

[@GaleAeras]

I just started experimenting with installing arch in a vm today lmao. will be following along and seeing what's what.

[@gand0rfTRZ]

Loved your series about setting up neovim. It helped me out a lot and I really love using it now. Can't wait to see more from this series. Multiple workspaces are a great tool to have. Just hate that it took Windows so long to make it a standard option. before then, using Linux at home and coming to work and having to use windows always felt like I was downgrading. Still kind of does, but it isn't as bad anymore. Still will never put Windows on my home machine again.

[@IshaanBahal]

Always remember, rolling release requires you to befriend arch-chroot but if you do an arch setup without the new distros like manjaro etc, you befriend it much sooner, likely on your 2nd broken install.

[@danielfrisancho09]

not at all, arch + btrfs and creates snapshots so you can back to the point before update also arch its more stable than manjaro

[@myartikool]

@@danielfrisancho09 btrfs + btrfs-assistant + snapper + grub-btrfs If something goes wrong - boot to a working snapshot -> open terminal -> snapper rollback and you're good

[@itisciprian]

tj and prime using popos - and using Linux only for the window manager. Great series.

[@RazoBeckett.]

Teej , Prime MENTIONED

[@gonzalomunoz2767]

I've been using some form or another of Linux for the past ~15 years, but I never really left the Windows-y look & feel of Desktop Environments and GUI apps like VS Code. It's not lost on me the huge difference in productivity that being fluent with tiling wms and vim, for example, gives people. I think I'll whip up a new virtual machine and start following this series so I can finally graduate to full-on nerd lol

[@brandoncarpenter1338]

I wish I had this content when I started my journey down this path. Grade A content

[@glassdoorgamer6344]

Moved from windows 11 to Ubuntu and my god has the quality and care being put into Linux is severely underrated. The experience is polished and I can run all my games on steam it seems. Wish I had knew long ago.

[@blocSonic]

Great series idea!

[@typecraft_dev]

Thanks! I’m excited

[@souzafeb]

For a noob developer like me, your content is a blessing, thanks brother!

[@typecraft_dev]

Happy to hear that!

[@knotrocket4825]

This might have already been pointed out but on Linux GNOME and KDE Plasma are Desktop environments which include both a display manager which is the login screen (e.g. GDM, SDDM) (the term doesn't make much sense) and a window manager (e.g. Mutter, KWin). Also while I do use Arch BTW but I think LTS distros have less vulnerabilities since they still ship bug fixes and security patches, but not new features that may contain new vulnerabilities.

[@typecraft_dev]

good points. I may have mixed up the terminologies. Will be sure to fix that in the next video!

[@samuelmorotti]

Can’t wait for next episodes

[@PHoSawyer]

Wheres the rest of the series? Great videos! hopefully more coming up soon! 🙌

[@typecraft_dev]

Yes more coming soon!! (Next couple days) thanks for your patience!

[@PHoSawyer]

This came across as really rude 🙈, I meant to say I'm hyped for this series and excited to see more 🙌💪, as soon as it's ready I'll be hyped to view 👍

[@lucasteo5015]

Always wanna try Linux, but for me I just can't get pass the stage where I constantly have to look for alternative app that were available on mac and windows.

[@Blan_11]

I also like Arch because I can easily install what I want and make sure it's up-to-date. But, I'm currently on EndeavourOS with hyprland since I really like it. Good video btw.

[@sayantanX]

i need this wallpaper. can someone tell me where to find?

[@paultapping9510]

just moved over to hyprland on Arch and oh my gosh. Going back to gnome now feels like my computer has been hobbled, navigation is just so slow comparatively. Yes, it took a long time and a lot of effort to get it set up to my liking, and I'll probably be tinkering for a while yet, but even unfinished my working environment is just so good to use!

[@U00v]

plus 10 point for the Patagonia hoodie

[@scientiac]

Actually, Gnome KDE are Desktop Environments not Display Managers. Display Managers are SDDM, GDM and other login screens (managers) Display Servers are Wayland and Xorg And window managers are: Mutter (Gnome's WM) Kwin (KDE's WM) I3 Hyprland Awesome and so on

[@iotku]

Yep these are the correct definitions. Gnome and KDE (Plasma) are Desktop Environments (DE), that is, a collection of related software including Login Management/Lockscreens (Display Managers), Window Management (WM) (Where to place windows, snapping behavior, title bars, switching between windows) , and generally the things you expect to have when using a Graphical environment (such as file managers, system monitors, document readers, word processing, etc) A window manager (WM) like i3, as the name implies, just gives you the piece that handles things like window management and hotkeys, but expects you to build out most of the rest of the environment yourself. Most aren't very limiting, but things you may expect to work out of the box in a DE (like file management, Display Configuration, USB storage, etc) may require more manual setup.

[@stunwin]

its absolutely insane that i followed this exact journey (with ubuntu) for the exact same reason, like one month ago

[@cristhianjhlcom]

Great content, BTW! 😎😎

[@incursio1122]

Was planning of installing arch since the package managers for debian sucks, just what i needed sir. Thanks a lot. Pacman supremacy!!

[@typecraft_dev]

Heck yes!

[@jas0x139]

Pacman is pretty insane. You can set the parallel downloads to around 100. Then when you run archinstall you can go from installation to being logged into your DE of choice in about 4 minutes.

[@jackyzheng55]

ive never been more excited