Top 5 Arch Based Distros

Today I talk about my favorite Arch Based distros!
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Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
2:15 RebornOS
4:34 Endeavouros
7:21 Garuda Linux
10:40 Manjaro
15:05 ArcoLinux
20:08 Conclusions

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[DrMr.]

I've always had some kind of problems with arch based distros.
So I'm using vanilla arch and it's working perfectly fine.

[luminem]

I use EndeavourOS, and I want to give some more detail:
The only "official" flavours actually themed are i3 and their flagship Xfce. Bryan (one of the founders) answered in a live on EF's channel they do it this way because other would tend to break more easily (take Garuda as an example).

The offline install will force you to get the Xfce version, because it is what is installed on the ISO.

Thanks for sharing, Matt!

[CyperN]

I couldn't agree with you more! That's exactly what I did .I installed and used vanilla Arch for about 2 years then it became easier for me to just get a arch-based distribution for convenience sake. Vanilla Arch is great if you have the time to set it up just the way you want it.

[nelduarte]

Thank you for your video. I used all of them and others too. But, all of them were eating my RAM. Today I am using Archlabs and I find it really great. It let me to chose what I need and not induces me what to use. KDE boots with 460M of Ram (Manjaro 870M), no matter what applications you have installed... Xcfe with 360M of Ram... their windows managers flavors run 210M at boot... It is a simple, clean and straight forward Arch distribution. I am very happy with it. Matt, great work.

[xA]

Non-technical users are definitely better off starting with a distribution based on Arch Linux instead of the original base Arch Linux. The easy-to-install distributions provide a smoother user experience "out of box."

[gmcenroe]

After having started with Linux Mint on my dual boot Lenovo T430 also running Windowd 10, my 2nd computer has been running on Arco Linux. I started with Plasma desktop which is nice but recently with updates to the Arch Linux Tweak Tool, I added Awesome and bspwm desktops. After getting those running well, I am thinking of replacing my Linux Mint install on the Lenovo with Arco linux as well. I am pretty certain I will do this soon. Eric Dubois has been extremely helpful and always answered the few questions that I posted as comments on his youtube videos. Sometimes it takes a little effort to figure out why something is broken, but that has been part of the joy of learning and accomplishment when I learn more as I go.

[linuxmench]

I like Arch better than Arch based distros. I prefer manual install, but if I need a quick and easy install, I use the Anarchy Installer.

[mizhimo]

Artix is a great option, easy to install and super minimal for those haters of systemd.
Also, Archcraft has a super beautiful Openbox configuration.
Actually, I'm running Artix with 90% of the Openbox ricing from Archcraft.

[robinkaku]

For Vanilla Arch it's almos mandatory to make your own installation scripts so you install always the same packages, and always the same confgs and you don leave behind necesary packages.

[SenorRossi]

I am using Manjaro with Budgie DE at the moment - I`m always falling back to Archbased Distros like Manjaro, Endeavour OS, Reborn OS, Storm OS ect... -they are fast and simple and I like the pacman-packagemanager ...

[RetosSpace]

Agree, noob here, 6months into Linux and I use Arco Linux, one day when I grow up I'll install Vanilla Arch and I'm 48yo now!! Thanks for this great channel, I've learnt so much

[alexanderlong]

New Arcolinux leftwm here. Took the defaults and have been tweaking it little by little. Leftwm is the first wm that seems to fit and arco did a decent initial setup

[walter_lesaulnier]

Exactly- Arch based distros and the better installers add a lot of little quality of life things that are easy to miss or forget when doing a vanilla arch install.

[camerontgore]

Great message! I'm going to steal "no one can tell you what distro is right for you" when people ask me about distros.

[WildWestDesigns]

I think this is going to depend on what one needs from their system. I tried Arch, typically around 3 weeks after install, I have to go in and spend (in my mind) too much time to fix something that randomly happens with an update. Now, there hasn't been a time that I haven't found a work around to an issue, but for the most part, I use my computers to make money creating something, a program, a design, something along those lines. If I was creating something for tutorial content or something like that, that would be something entirely different. I need system to be running all the time and Arch just doesn't give me that with the particular hardware that I have. I'm sure for some Arch is great and they love it for one reason or another, I just don't think it's for everyone. Certainly not for me. Even after12 yrs of using Linux. I think the most bleeding edge as I'll get is Fedora (and Fedora was my first foray into Linux, not Ubuntu).

[burcakb]

Manjaro offers post-install package selection, much like Garuda. In fact I think Manjaro came up with that idea before Garuda. There's a Manjaro Hello window that pops up right after installation and in that window is a button to configure all the software you want, arranged into categories.

[fenrisler]

Great thanks. Using Mabox (based on Manjaro) and its great!

[eonshade]

Pretty cool video, nice choices. I have tried archlabs and it is a good way to set up arch quickly with a terminal installer.

[timchesonis]

I really appreciate your videos. You tend to address what the rest of us are thinking and are not afraid of being politically incorrect. It is so refreshing, thank you!

[Phanbot]

I'd like to see a arch based distro with the Pantheon desktop. I tried doing an install from scratch and it was a disaster, things didn't work properly and trying to fix things ended up breaking something else. Just love that desktop environment, Elementary OS is kind of a pain to unlock it so you can use ppa's to add programs outside of what they offer.