My ARCH LINUX Experience

Have always wanted to try out Arch Linux, and in this video I finally got around to it! Join me as I document my journey installing, configuring, and using Arch for some daily tasks on an old Thinkpad. Overall an absolutely great experience, and will definitely be using Arch in the future.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:22 - Research
2:46 - Plans and Installation
5:23 - Basic Configuration
7:25 - Usage
12:08 - Conclusion
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Music:
All credit to @dpacarana, @victorfuertesmusic, and Steve Coleman!
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I use arch btw.
#archlinux #computerscience #linux #thinkpad #lenovo

I first installed arch on 2014, when i was 11yo
I was so pround of myself

[XionicalXionical]

The AUR is life. Every time I go to check out some other distro, not having access to the aur is my biggest gripe. Like I just want one place to install all my software, and the aur delivers every time.

[Prnrml-wrld]

honestly with the quality of your video, like sound, editing and etc. i was really surprised when i saw im the 748th guy to subscribe you, really a good job you have made :)

[rijojohn]

I have used multiple distros, and I keep coming back to arch.
The main things always bringing me back are:
1. Arch can be very light. With most other distros I have to install some DE and then figure out ways to remove it.
2. AUR: probably the most brilliant bit of technology I use on a daily basis. I’ve heard other people have had issues with it, I personally can’t say I have.

[forzatoro]

The thinkpad W530 is honestly better than 80% of laptops around today :D

[trinhmecha]

the stuttering you mentioned in i3wm is not actual stuttering but screen tearing caused by the nature of xorg, you can fix the screen tearing of xorg using other compositor which rewrite the root of xorg, the best and most commonly used one is picom

[gjvdspam]

I tried Arch for the fun of it 2 years ago and I never left. I like the wiki a lot, I can find what I'm looking for very quick. The distro gives a very tidy impression and it is very versatile. Lately I switched to direct kernel booting with EFI, because I saw an YouTube vid of Brodie Robertson about it. I was to pleasantly surprised how easy it was to do and how well it works with software package updates. Just awesome.

[RoyFJ]

Arch+Gnome+Flatpak+AUR is all one needs for a functional Linux distro.

[sweglord]

a tip for those who are interested in distro hoping: have separate partitions for your home dir and root dir. this let's you slap on whatever distro you want for basically free. install whatever packages and you'll already have the configs there for it

[okdoomer]

Arch is very nice initially. I love how simple and fast it is, and how it puts you in charge. But like all distros (except immutable distros and NixOS), every installation and update is all just mutation on top of mutation, so Arch diverges more and more over time (compared to a fresh install) and at some point it starts breaking after a few months or a year. This effect gets amplified by the rolling release model. I know that many people claim that it never broke for them, and I can imagine you can get close if you maintain your system well. I used it for 3 years, and have no regrets. But a release models are definitely more stable.

[s.i.n]

heey nice video! i love hyprland it is pretty smooth

[RaulChis]

Bro used my photo at 0:53, I'm honored!

[raf.nogueira]

My main problem with Arch is just the EFI installations, systemd and grub2 are very hard to install the keys on uefi motherboards.. Thatś why I stopped pure Arch and start using EndeavourOS and Manjaro instead... Great video man

[nadtz]

I miss those old thinkpads, owned 3 or 4 of them and the new ones just aren't the same. I've been playing with Arch on a spare machine and there is definitely a lot to like but I have to play with it some more before I decide on trying it as my daily driver.

[VaroPhotography]

Been running Arch since april 2023. Don't regret a thing. I haven't needed to reinstall, and it doesn't break as some people say.

[SylveonMujigaeOfficial]

I have found that YouTube does work better in Arch than most distros I have tried, like Fedora, Manjaro, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint.

[amirmohammadomidi]

I dig your style. Keep up the good work.

[Ghostdawg]

I like it even better than manjaro (arch with bells and whistles) it’s not for everyone but for the curious minded it’s a blast to figure out and configure just the way you want it.

[alexal]

I have arch on both by desktop for about 3 years, tried different windows managers and eventually stayed with DWM for the last 2 years.
Was thinking to move to Void Linux, but it would not change anything for better so staying with Arch and no plans to change it.

[rjawiygvozd]

sway may fix whatever issues you have on i3, it uses the same graphics backend as hyprland but otherwise it's the same as i3 and configuration is 99% compatible