Learn Something: Arch Linux YouTube Live Stream Installation Mistakes And Fixes + Hyprland Bonus

Initially I did the installation live on stream, and this upload is the result of removing the unnecessary chat with viewers. There were two major mistakes that I did during the installation and in this video you can learn how to fix them.

2:00 Beginning
4:15 Keyboard layout
4:54 Font
6:18 Clock
7:17 Partitioning and formatting
12:42 Why Arch and not Ubuntu?
13:50 Mounting filesystems and swapon
15:48 Installing the base system (pacstrap)
19:37 Screwed up NetworkManager installation
20:05 fstab generation
20:50 Why Arch and not OpenSuse?
22:26 Timezone set, Clock, locale, keymap, hostname...
26:00 mkinitcpio
26:40 root password
26:53 Why Nano / VIM and not echo?
27:52 Nano and GRUB install
32:20 Rebooting without having a working GRUB config
41:20 Fixing GRUB (generatin the config file)
42:37 Arch has successfully booted at this point
44:25 KDE Plasma installation attempt without having any networking functionality
49:49 Installing NetworkManager (fixing the networking)
53:26 KDE Plasma installation
56:35 Making a user
57:39 Plasma login
59:54 Neofetch
1:01:26 All Plasma applications install
1:04:35 Super Tux gameplay
1:06:28 Hyprland installation request from chat

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[vmisev]

Thanks for the video! Very nicely done guide, simple yet detailed explanations 👍
BTW, it's always good idea to have efi partition much larger than you initially need it.
There was a problem on some FreeBSD installs with upgrade from v12 to v13, especially if original install was v12.0 or earlier. v12.0 install by default made relatively small efi partition, but with v13 many things changed and efi loader got much bigger. Only solution was to shuffle partitions around: del efi & swap, make new swap starting at specific offset, make new lager efi of right size to fill up to swap, fat format efi, mount and copy loader. Not particularly hard for experienced admin, but a nightmare for ordinary users 🙄

[KadenTheRaver]

You’ve lost me …. At this point windows 11 is suffice 😂